The meaning of life?

Question

What is it?

Answer 1

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.....

Answer 2

George Carlin has once said that the meaning of life is "to find a place to put all your stuff
In his book "A Man Without a Country", Kurt Vonnegut sums up life with the words: "We're all here to fart around. Don't let anyone tell you any different!"
Conan the Barbarian, in the film of the same name, when asked, "What is best in life?" responds, "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."

Michael Palin is handed an envelope, opens it, and says nonchalantly: "Well, it's nothing very special. Uh, try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try to live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations."
an advanced race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings (mice) builds a gigantic computer called Deep Thought to find The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Seven and a half-million years later, the computer gives the answer: "42".

Answer 3

Why does there have to be a meaning behind everything? Tell you what though, just live your life and live it to the best of your ability. By the end of your life, you will know

Answer 4

The meaning of life is *self-transcendence* - or self donation.

It is working for a good that is other and higher than yourself.

In this self-forgetful mode of life, you find yourself.


Happiness never comes to those who aim for it directly (that is the precise explanation as to why there is so much frustration in life that people cannot seem to shake).

Happiness only comes from forgetting yourself and committing yourself to something that is worthwhile in itself.






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Answer 5

According to the dictionary...*searches it up*.

Well, depends what you are seeking. A spiritual view of it can have a religious approach, a philosophical view descends on the field of metaphysics and a literal view can be extracted from the dictionary. Remembering that you are the architect of your own destiny is really all I can say. Life is what you make it.

Answer 6

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 7

To me the meaning of life is to learn about self and others then teach others about self and others. Its about as simple as I can get it down too.

Answer 8

Life full of unconditional Love

Answer 9

the meaning of life is to live life to the fullest

Answer 10

Simply, to discover for yourself those things that best answer the question for you. There are infinate reasons to live, but the strongest of these is simply love of those, and for those, around you who make each day special.