What is the meaning of life?

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

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 3

The meaning of life, the truth behind this mystery and the undoubtable search that every person at one point goes through can never be known. Maybe there is a meaning, maybe there is not. It's when you get so caught up in trying to figure out unanswerable questions that you start to stop living. Trust me, I was going through this as well, and unless you're extremely religious, you won't find a meaning.
The true value of your individual life lies within yourself. You choose your own paths and patterns, destinies and desires, woes and troubles and angst and happiness; you choose everything that happens to you because you accept this as inevitability. Can't get a girl? Your own fault. Can't lose weight? Your own fault. Too ugly? Your own fault. Simply because you believe it to be true, it is.
Your question is worded wrong, too. It's not the meaning that you are looking for. It is the purpose. If life had a meaning, we would have figured it out by now, but there is no meaning behind it just as there was no meaning behind The Mighty Ducks 3. The purpose of life, however, is a much more pertinent and desirable question. But whose life? Your own? Your society's? Figure out your questions first before you decide to ask unanswerables.

Answer 4

The meaning of life is the search for the meaning of life.

Answer 5

The meaning of life is to live! As soon as we're born we start dieing so get out there and have a good time! Live it up!

Answer 6

There is no meaning of life, only several lives w/ which to give meaning to. Everyone must decided for themselves what they want their life to mean.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Life's purpose is to make other lives (love and be loved), then make small changes on earth in the name of future generations

Answer 9

Catholics believe the meaning of human life is to know and love God.

With love in Christ.

Answer 10

Life means mission.
Once you were born you have a mission so i think life means a mission.