Is there a meaningful or logical reason why we can not find the meaning of life during our lifetime?

Answer 1

It keeps us curious and always trying to better ourselves. As a species, we are curious and that curiosity helped us evolve to where we are today.

Answer 2

Well, hindsight is 20-20. It's when something is over, when you can stand back and really look at something from the outside that you understand it. When you're still inside you're too close to it to really see "the big picture." So perhaps we can't understand life until we've crossed to the other side & can watch it all play out like a movie...

I think we can come close to understanding life's meaning during our lifetime though. You know when you're on the right track. When you're happy & you greet each day with hope & wonder. When you're doing what you love. Life is to be lived. Enjoy it to the fullest. Love yourself, love others, love the planet. Follow your dreams. Never stop learning & growing. Survive. Don't succumb. Don't give in when it gets rough. Never give up. You can't really go wrong that way. Whether you believe in God or not, whether you believe in an afterlife, no matter what, you can enjoy each day. Cherish the moment that you are in. Choose to be happy. You have nothing to lose. If you live the best life you can live, you can't go wrong. Life is whatever you make it. So make it meaningful!

P.S. I like your hat but the Egyptian one was cool too!

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Cheers!

Answer 3

I don't think life has any given or particular meaning. It's a marvel, and that's enough. But we can certainly find meaning for our own life. The first place to look is what we spend it on. That's often not what we declare as our priority etc.; and even less often is it what second-hand vague platitudes we've had handed down from others (like "Christian" values, as though only Christians have any values worthwhile; or "family values", and so on). I reckon that the most remarkable things about human life are`(a) the capacity to consciously experience internalities and externalities and (b) to reflect on that experience and (c) to know it will end. So for me, the meaning of life lies in enriching that experience, and exploring its potential significance. And eventually it all boils down to relationships - with all things, but especially with other people. So what diminishes others ultimately diminishes us, too; and what enriches the experience of others enriches us. Maybe that's why parenting and teaching is so satisfying - especially when it isn't merely aimed at capturing a docile disciple. Good luck

Answer 4

Sure. For the same reason you cannot tell the meaning of a sentence until you reach the period at the end.

What you want to do is find a meaning for a process which you are embedded in. In the same way that you cannot tell if a man lived a good life until that life is over and can be judged entire, you cannot find an overarching purpose in your own life until it is over and you are outside of it.

As an example, what is the meaning of the following sentence?
There was a great thinker who also ...

Answer 5

The meaning of life is to question and grow. That's why God gave us the ability to question. If we could answer all our questions, there would be no more reason to live. So, yes, there is a reason why you can't find all the answers.

Most people are too busy to take the time to concentrate on a question. Even when you have the hard data, you must still strive to understand it and that takes a bit of undistracted thought. Fun, though. Try it sometime.

Answer 6

Yes, but let me explain as simply I might.

We can never hope to find that which we do not seek. Once sought, one must decide which is the answer one hoped to find and in that decision time passes--whether that time is a lifetime or a second (i.e., epiphany), is up to the individual. Discovery is meaningful, but meaning to discover is FAR more meaningful to an individual and often more productive.

In other words, your question is redundant for only you can answer a question that you yourself know only the one true and absolutely correct answer.

Answer 7

The answer is very simple. And people who uses scientific or religious citations aren't having their own opinions.

The meaning of life is knowing your own existence. If you find it, you would actually be omnipotent (like what they call their god) because knowing life itself would make you superior to others who don't. But the depressing thing is that once you are powerful and all-knowing, there is one thing left that you haven't experience. Your death.

So you would die just trying to find the last answer. Which is why the concept of afterlife exist. It is comforting to think that you would go to heaven/paradise/hawaii after you die, when actually it is all just speculations.

Thankfully, the human existence is too short compared to what scientists perceive to be a very old universe. So during our transition from life to death, maybe only a handful can find the answer to the meaning of life.

Lastly, reading up till now wouldn't make you understand the meaning of life. Because we are all skeptical about what others think unless we find it out ourselves.

And that is why we have different answers. =)

Answer 8

And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? Matthew 19:16 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. Matthew 25:46 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:15 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. John 6:54 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. John 12:25 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Romans 6:23 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life , I John 2:25 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 22:13 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. Revelation 22:12

Answer 9

People that help others find the meaning of LIFE and we that have too much time on our hands Never know why and what was the reason we were born so I guess the busy one that have free will and the drive to help others have found the answers to LIFE?

Answer 10

The answer to this question lies within the hearts of each human being. Some were put here to heal, others to love, some to warm with music, some to teach our children... and of course....some to harm. There is no specific meaning to life other than to fulfill your life in what you feel you are meant to do. Follow your dreams and heart and you will find the meaning for YOUR life.

Answer 11

It's hard to figure out. Humans have limited capacity of understanding. Life is too short. By the time you start figuring things out, you're dead. And of course, who ever said that life really does have a meaning? Some believe that the only meaning are the ones we create for ourselves.