what is the meaning of life? no religous answers please?

Question

i say no religous answers beacuse it will ruin the moment

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

Sorry, but it's an impossible question to answer without coming back to religion. I am a logical person by nature, so I can understand the atheist when he says that we are a "random blip" in the cosmos. Perhaps we are, but BECAUSE WE CAN CONCEIVE of a need for meaning, there must be one. And if I am wrong about that, I invite anyone to prove it.

After much meditation on the human condition, I have concluded that we are "tragically flawed". We have remnants of animal instincts - goosebumps when we are scared, family bonds that help keep us safe (safety in numbers), decrease in stress when we experience pleasure (think of a cat enjoying a sunbeam) - but we were not happy thinking this way. Somewhere along the way, somehow, we became self-aware. The "missing link" vs. The Forbidden Fruit. Same idea.

Obviously, from the calamitous decline we have wrought upon ourselves as a race, something is wrong with us. It seems that no matter how much we do, we cannot live up to the potential we know is within us. We always screw up and fall short. Before this transition into self-awareness, we had no knowledge of what was right or what was wrong...just of what "is". Same as animals. A dog is not "bad" when he gets into the garbage can (again). Why wouldn't he? There's edible stuff in there and it was left where he could get it. It wasn't reasoned out, it was just a matter of opportunity.

But because we can now reason that making work for others (the cleaner-upper) merely for personal gain (the strings off the rump roast perhaps?) is a bad thing, yet we do it anyway, it defines us as being bad people. We do the wrong thing. And we do it over and over again every day. This is unhealthy for us on many levels, and as God said, "...and you will surely die." He meant a spiritual death. You can only live a lie for so long before it eats you alive.

Basically, we're too big for our britches. We know more than we were designed to know or handle. This life is all about coming to terms with our imperfection and finding a healthy and positive way to deal with it. There are so many questions I don't have answers to. And where there's an absence of knowledge there is fear. Death, for example, is a big unknown. It scares people silly. Perhaps moreso when they imagine that there's nothing but a dialtone waiting on the other side. There's no hope, no peace throughout life and up to the end. Just fear and avoidance. We all have to die some day. Why live an entire life in fear, without hope? What, just so that you can tell me you were right when we get to the other side and find out there is nothing? When we get there...if you're right...you won't be saying anything at all...will you? So who gives a damn who's right or wrong?? Dig deep and believe what you know to be true. I'm already desensitized to being thought of as weird, so for me it's just a no-lose situation. I put up with a few more people thinking I should seek therapy, I live a good and happy life, and if I'm right then the pay-off is huge. See? win-win.

Answer 3

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 4

Why does there have to be a meaning? Maybe all the elements needed for human lives came together just like all the other creatures on our planet. Remember......the universe is mighty large for us humans to really have any relevant purpose. All people on earth could be wiped out OR could have never even existed and the universe would still be what is and always has been.
It is a philisphocial question in which theres no answer.

Answer 5

What is the meaning of any chain of events that evolves? Imagine a chain where each million links or so, the links evolved, changing the entire chain, both backward and forward. What is the point? Maybe for the links to come to a realization about ones own existence, so that we could have a supreme understanding of the universe. Then, and only then can we see as a God might, if there were one.

Answer 6

I am not religious. I do however have an outstandingly, loving relationship with Christ Jesus though, and it has made life worth living because HE is teaching me about true Love, unconditional love which surpasses our limited understanding as Men & Women of flesh. You see, we were created by GOD, through Love, with Love, and even when mankind scewed it up royally, time and time again, GOD still loved mankind enough to give HIS only begotten Son, Christ Jesus, that through HIS stripes, we were healed, and through HIS resurrection, we have been redeemed from the curse of the law which is Poverty, Sickness & the second Death, which is eternal separation from GOD The Father. In this life, we are to learn what it means to Love one another as we would love ourselves, unfortunately, many still have not yet grasped it, and they constantly feel they know better than The Creator, yet mankind is the cause of the problems in the world today. GOD did not create the jealousy, envy, greed, lying, adulterous & murderous nation we live in. Man did that with the urgence of satan, and like a bear in the trap, naws off their foot, and complains rather than come to terms with the reality that it is "GODs WAY" or satan's way. There is no in between, regardless to what you may believe, Truth is Truth. So young one, the essence of Life is love, with out it you die first emotionally, mentally & then eventually physically. Just like oxygen, the brain and body (heart) need Love, it is known as the quintessential healer. Have you ever noticed when Love is applied to anything, it is always better i.e. cooking, gardening, when one has a love for a sport, they tend to be better at it, and those that love money, suffer, for The Love of Money" brings about the root of evil, because you now have to serve it hand and foot to feed it, thinking you will get more, when ther wil NEVER be enough for you. GOD has said, one cannot serve to masters, i.e. Mammon (money) and GOD!

Answer 7

The meaning of Life differs from person to person. The question you must ask yourself is...what you have to invest in is discovering that one thing that you do when you are at your most content and happiest.
Usually this answer involves helping someone, giving... in some shape or form, or shaping your goals. If you invest your time in what ever it is; that thing that makes you feel on top of the world, then you would have just taken the key first steps to the meaning of your Life.

There is only one small quote in the bible that answered this question for me. If you would like it... [e-mail]

Answer 8

No FALSE religion answer. ok? The meaning of life is to prepare you because you are in your mere seed form, and you are infinitely precious, so precious you cannot even begin to fathom how much that is or is to be.. but without your knowing it you are being guided, and even though the world may seem like a hell, you are led, you are protected, and as a babe is cared for you don't even have to have any idea what, why or how......but trust me, you are being led somewhere..and for a reasons you will find out.Give it a few hundred years if that much.

Answer 9

Why is it that we humans think there must be some meaning to this life.
Animals are living and yet we don't ask what is the meaning of life for that dog or cat.
And yet there must be a reason for my being here, right?
There must be a purpose to life, right?
There must be some meaning to this existence, right?
Since all religions are man made the following comment isn't about religion.
We think there is meaning because we were created.
Who creates something with no purpose in mind?
The answer is within you.

Answer 10

no religion no reason we are just a random blip of no reason in an accidental cosmos no rythme no song no point. Life and death are meaningless and existance is neither better than non existance.
But there is a creator who designed all of creation. There is a meaning because very people like you ask the words what, how and why?