Whats the meaning of life?

Question

What do you think the meaning of life is?

Answer 1

Life – it has a meaning and loving purpose - you just have to find your purpose and live it.

I believe every person is here for a definite purpose. Each person is special and valuable; that refers to me, you, your family, friends, in fact everybody! There is a loving plan for each of our lives here on earth and there is no such thing as coincidence. I don't believe that anything in life happens by chance and that every aspect of our lives points to something deeper.

You need to decide now to live for God rather than for yourself. You spend your life on Earth preparing yourself (as best you can) for death. I don't see death as a scary, negative experience, but birth into a bliss filled eternal life with God. I believe that this is something you have to consciously choose or not during your life on earth.

The meaning of life is for us to discover that we are true children of an infinitely loving and merciful God, to find out what our responsibilities are to our Creator, and to fulfill those responsibilities. Each of us is called to affirm, accept and develop the talents God has given us. -

Answer 2

80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions recently:

1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.

So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.

Answer 3

Understand the true "meaning of life"... the concept in totality-


What is the "meaning of life" is the most asked question on the Internet. Why?

Every Human Being wants to know and understand the Philosophy behind the meaning of Life! Why are we here... what is the purpose of our living on Mother Earth... what is the real meaning of Life? The queries are numerous... there has got to be a justification for our living. What is the basis of existence of Life on planet Earth?


Before we indulge into knowing "the meaning of Life" we need to understand Life itself. How do we differentiate between a mortal (living being) and an immobile material (having no Life within)? For this we need to start from the beginning of the Cosmos itself... The time of the big bang!

At the time of the big bang when God, the Almighty Creator which is but the size of half a thumb explodes itself... all Atmans (Souls) get scattered all over the cosmos and in doing this they lose their pristine purity and as a ball coated with honey gathers dust while rolling... these Atmans (Souls) also get impregnated with impurities. This is the fundamental cause of Life... if these Atmans (Souls) had remained pure all the time... the need for Life in whole of the cosmos would not have arisen.


These Atmans (Souls) in their cosmic journey now need a body so that they can purify themselves and come back to their original pristine form. These Atmans (Souls) do not have the power to purify themselves without the aid of any external body. They need a body to work out its Karma and in the process the dross within the Atman soul shall get removed.


Let me explain this further but before that I need to explain the definition of God.


At the time of pralaya as we call it in Hinduism (the time of complete dissolution of the cosmos)... the total cosmos which consists of many universes dissolves back into its original pristine form... this is the form we know as God, the Almighty Creator! The size of the whole cosmos at this moment of time is half the size of a thumb, which is nothing else, but the collection of all purified Atmans (Souls) in the cosmos.

For purifying themselves why do the Atmans (Souls) need a body? This feature can be explained further by the example of mining.


If I need to extract one KG of pure gold (say an individual purified Atman in its pristine pure form) from a lump of hundred KG of gold ore then I need to pass the lump of hundred KG of gold ore through the requisite mining process. It is absolutely clear that this one KG of pure gold can not on its own separate itself out from the hundred KG of gold ore without the help of an external medium... it needs requisite machinery to remove the 99 KG of dross within the ore. More on meaning life here- http://www.godrealized.org/what_is_the_meaning_of_life.html

Answer 4

At an individual level, the meaning of life is to survive and to promote our genes. In fact, according to Richard Dawkins, we are little more than survival machines carrying their genes to the next generation. It sounds bleak but the good news is we evolved brains powerful enough to realise it. So we might end-up breaking the cycle to try something new, at some point...

Answer 5

Meaning of life.. What a silly question
Because of all the religions and differents belifts out there no one can truely answer that question, I can tell you what I believe though.. I believe the meaning of all our lifes are different.. We have all been put here for different reasons and no one truely has the exzact same reason, We are all like snowflakes never the same.. Even year after year..

So what is the meaning of life... The meaning of your life I guess you, and only you will find out what the meaning of your life is..

Answer 6

42...
Nah, kidding.

There is no meaning..
This might sound weird, but you got to create a meaning yourself. Find a reason to live, and to do all the things you want to do, etc.

You just got to make the most out of life. Thats all one can do.

Because from what we know, we only live once.


P.S. The Adam and Eve thing didn't really happen.

Answer 7

The meaning of life is that there will be life. It is its own reason for existing. Why ask the water, why are you water? Or the sky, why are you sky? If one is to reflect on all that is loving and good, these are things that bring forth life and livelihood in all its manifestations.

Answer 8

Good One!

Apart from that rather cryptic answer you should examine the question, because the meaning flows from how you are defining life and 'meaning' in the first place. What's your base? Do you know it?

Answer 9

To enjoy the fine dining recommendations of the dearly departed Dr. Seuss. You need a box, a fox, a train ticket, a plane ticket, and a good friend. Now you can enjoy your green eggs and ham.

Answer 10

"life" isn't a single entity, i think the correct question would be "what's the meaning of your experience of 'life'. or even "whats your meaning of life".

therefore i can have my own meaning of life. which is enjoy everything i do or have to do as much as i possibly can whilst not preventing anyone else from doing the same.