meaning of life...?

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. -

2006-12-30 17:49:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋

There was a time when meadow, grove, and streams,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;--
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day.
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
The Rainbow comes and goes,
And lovely is the Rose,
The Moon doth with delight
Look round her when the heavens are bare,
Waters on a starry night
Are beautiful and fair;
The sunshine is a glorious birth;
But yet I know, where'er I go,
That there hath past away a glory from the earth..

What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind..

That is excerpted from Wordsworth's Intimations of Immortality.. I think.. to myself anyway.. life is short & ya better enjoy it while you can..

2006-12-30 16:31:39 · answer #2 · answered by Century25 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋

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.

To be or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is inevitable.....

2006-12-30 17:12:44 · answer #3 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋

To contemplate the meaning of my life until I am old and near death. My last words will be "Would've been nice to find a meaning in all this." My epitaph will read: Too Busy Seeking Meaning To Live.

"Why me?"
"That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?"
"Yes."
"Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why."

- Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

2006-12-30 16:33:06 · answer #4 · answered by waefijfaewfew 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋

One of the wisest men who ever lived, King Soloman spoke about this in detail in the Bible book of Ecclesiasties... I agree with him that we have a need to worship..Ecc 12:13; That we were given this planet to take care of, to make into an eartwide garden..Ecc 3:10-13;

2006-12-30 16:44:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋

The meaning of life is to fulfill the purpose of your life. To give even when your never given in return. To love even if your never loved in return. To share even when nothing maybe shared in return. To care for even if your never cared for. To place in the hearts of others the special things only you can give and then remember when it's all said and done.

2006-12-30 16:27:21 · answer #6 · answered by relationcounseling 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋

The meaning of life is to work hard to improve yourself and help people around you become better people.

2006-12-30 16:32:24 · answer #7 · answered by adanarama 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋

To living this life on earth and eternity in Heaven.

2006-12-30 16:20:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋

God is the meaning of my life.

2006-12-30 16:24:16 · answer #9 · answered by mgerard06 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋

Why is this questioned asked 5, 000 per week on Yahoo Answers? Obviously, nobody has been able to come up with an answer.

2006-12-30 16:18:52 · answer #10 · answered by nowhere 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋

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