what is the meaning of life?

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

The Oxford English Dictionary defines "life" as:

"The property which constitutes the essential difference between a living animal or plant, or a living portion of organic tissue, and dead or non-living matter"

But this is probably not what your asking. In fact philosophically your question is too vague for a specific answer. What the question is trying to get at is very profound and important, but this current formulation resembles only a superficial cocktail party question. An abomination of the important questions.

Yet, countless will fall for this question and give some kind of response. They are not answering the question, they're answering what they want to believe the question to be asking (so that they can give the answer they want...which is probably what I've done in answering the question).

Answer 4

The meaning of life is made on an individual basis. Make your own meaning. Don't get stuck on this question for too long, or else you might miss trying to actually accomplish your personal meaning.

Answer 5

to learn to love unconditionally-
to gain experience
to retain wisdom
to do the best you can with what you've got
to be a decent person every life you live no matter what kind of hand you are dealt
to be an example.
what is your meaning of life?
really don't worry about it too much just live it as best you can every day like it's your last-because you never kow how long you have!

Answer 6

i think its the experience of being alive. it is also what you make of it because what you make of it matters too.sometimes we think life is unfair, yeah it is, in some ways though. and sometimes we think life is a puzzle with hidden solutions when we don't understand things but sometimes we also think it is wonderful when good things come our way!Hope you get something from dis!

Answer 7

the meaning of life is whatever you can and have created it to be.

Answer 8

To be completely happy and satisfied with your mind, body, and soul. That said, wheather your living alone or with somebody.

Answer 9

There is no meaning. Just do what you feel like. You can't go wrong.

Answer 10

to find ur way,get experience and teach the next generation