What is the meaning of life?

Question

To live? To reproduce? To eat? To drink? To rule? To be superior than others? To kill? To die?? To become one with oneself? Or to serve a certain higher invisble being in the clouds?

OR SHOULD WE ALL DIE NOW? Or will we mutate and become like superman??

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

Your question is the best answer to your own question.
I explain. When you start questioning yourself this it means that you are disconnecting from Matrix, that is, you stop living a life accepting the usual wrong answers from society and looking for real answers.
It is like if you have been put into a game where you have amnesia and do not know anything about the game, just that there are many people around you and they do not know either what is going on, but they seem to know because they are not asking, or they stopped asking long time ago because nobody was answering, or the answers that were around were mixed with thousands of false data.
The meaning of life is to find the answers to the important questions of life like "What is the meaning of life?" "Who are we?" "Is there a God?" "Have we lived before this life?" "What happens when the body dies?" and how to achieve spiritual freedom which is the most important of all in the long term...
The riddle of life can be solved, after many, many years of searching for answers I have found enough answers so life is not a riddle anymore for me, there is a path and I am walking it...

Answer 3

LIVE FOR WHAT YOU ARE WILLING TO DIE FOR

"Looking back over my whole life, unquestionably the best period was being a member of the Jewish underground. True, much of it was a miserable existence. But every moment I was completely alive. I was living for something that I was willing to die for."

Living only for material pleasure and comfort is not really living. We also need to understand the deeper existential meaning of life. Sooner or later, every human being is faced with the cold, hard reality: "What's my life all about?"

If you want to live, be real. Know what you are willing to die for. Then you are genuinely alive, and able to truly achieve the highest form of pleasure from living.

Answer 4

The answer is very subjective. Some will look to nature, others to science. Others, still, to a philosophical answer.

For me, the meaning or purpose of a life is to make the most of it. In doing so, one 'should' practice the notion of doing no harm to others. If I make the most of my potential...my talents...I am fulfilling my purpose. In doing so, I hope that I make the journey of others all the better.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

To live is to act -- if you get a chance watch the japanese movie "Ikiru" by Akira Kurosawa, its the closest I ever got to the meaning of life.

Or if you are the reading type, try "The Little Prince" by Saint Exupery

Answer 7

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 8

i think its the whole reproducing thing because of the whole "survival of the fittest" thing we and all animals and plants have in our genes or whatever, but honestly other than that i dont think there is one- like spiratually i mean.
But then what is the point in reproducing and carrying on the human race anyway- actually what is the point?
Maybe there's something at the end of it all or someone- to tell us...?

Answer 9

Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins have books out about this.

Answer 10

To give life meaning.