what is the meaning of life?

Question

don't say 42!

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

42

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

30+10+6-4 = 42

Answer 5

Very amusing that when I read that question there was 42 answers.

I had to put my own to make it 43 - sorry couldn't resist.

Anyway "The Meaning of Life", a film by Monty Python, has it covered in my opinion - especially Eric Idle's "Galaxy Song".

Answer 6

It's a film.

Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life.
1983
Directed by Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam.
Starring the Monty Python team.

It's a good film. You should watch it.

42 is not the meaning of life - it is The Answer to life, the universe and everything.

My personal opinion is the the meaning of life is to die knowing the world has been improved because you lived in it.

Answer 7

when you sit on a moonbathed rock surrounded by a wild beautiful, sea, and you look up at the stars and realise ...

we are so very, very small, a tiny person in an infinite universe, and everything suddenly falls into place, we stop wasting our precious time with things that really don't matter, and all we desire is to feel this peaceful within ourselves, forever, and to make a difference...

well, that's my meaning of life anyway... :)

Answer 8

The life after this one!

Answer 9

There is no specific meaning of life. Life, basically is meaningless, which is why we have to find our own meaning of life, whether it's for one's parents, children, companion, pet, etc, so that we have a purpose to live and keep going, otherwise we'll probably commit suicide.

Answer 10

2 x 21

spookly there has been 42 answers!!!!???