What is the meaning of life?

Question

What do you think? Any feedback?

The meaning of life is to help the living organisms to continue their evolution and discovery; elimination if necessary.

Answer 1

"Life" is a magazine with very good pictures and articles.

Answer 2

While some may think we are just particle-converters; as aimless organisms that consume until one reigns supreme, those people would be missing a fundamental part of life, which includes emotions and experience.

In this circumstance of consciousness, regardless of our individual abilities, the greatest meaning is to care for each other.

Answer 3

Funny thing is we only ask this question because we have a self-awareness. If we were as the other organisms on this planet, it would be to simply follow our natural instinct to survive and procreate. I hope this actually helps you. My personal belief is that we are simply here to live the best that we can.

Answer 4

Everyone has a different meaning of life. Some people say that the meaning of life is to get a lot of money, to gain popularity and wealth (yes, of course, that is the wrong one). However, I think that the meaning of life lies in your purpose: To help others and make this world a better place to live.

Answer 5

Where does the idea come from that we are any more important than any other living organisms?

Nature does the job of helping the living organisms to continue their evolution. It is human arrogance that says we are in charge of all animals and can do what we like with them.

If we didnt interfere with nature to start with then nature wouldnt need any help!

Answer 6

The question that we need to answer is, "What are we really here for?" If we can answer this one simple question, we will hold the key to the meaning of life, of existence. We will find God and everything else that we desire. At this juncture this may seem like a tall claim to some. But understand that the first part of this search is the jump that we have to take. It is only when the seed gets into the ground that there is a possibility of growth. That is what we are talking about here - getting into the ground.

We are all seeds. There is a seed of divinity within us all, only it hasn't sprouted yet. So we ask it to sprout, we give it a chance to sprout, by asking ourselves this question first and foremost - "Why are we here?" This entire existence is only to understand that. An entire existence is very vast. Many many lifetimes, many of which we are not even aware of today, all for just one purpose - to understand what we are doing here.

There are other questions, which go along with this - "Where have we come from? Where are we going to after this? How long have we been doing this? And, how long are we going to continue doing this?" These are all related questions. This is the kindergarten level when you start your spiritual quest. But this is where we all start out from because you can't skip kindergarten. You have to rise step-by-step. You have to open your understanding to progress.

Another few questions that we must all ask ourselves are, "Why do we need God?" "Why are we not fulfilled just as we are?" "?No matter where we will be, no matter what we may be doing, no matter how old or how fit, no matter how happy or unhappy we may be at this moment, why can't we just let the struggle go and be totally happy?" "Why do we need to find some meaning?" After all, animals don't need to find a meaning. Trees don't need to find a meaning. The oceans, the rivers and the mountains don't have a need to find meaning.

Then why do we? Why do we need God in the first place? Nobody has seen him, nobody has met him, he doesn't have a fixed address and still we are searching for him everywhere. Isn't that the irony of life? Something which people say is nowhere to be found, and we search for it everywhere. Yet, why can't we give up this search? Why do we feel unfulfilled without it? hy can't we be complete, just as we are today, in this moment? You have all realised, that even after having a family, even after attaining maturity, even after having fun and games, even after having enjoyed pleasurable moments, even after having pains and disappointments, even after having wealth or poverty, you are still incomplete. This is the truth we all carry within ourselves. We may try and fool ourselves saying that we are complete in the moment, but we know we really cannot say that forever.

We can only say it in a certain period of time. When circumstances change, environment's change, people around us change, even this speck of truth changes for us. It is not an ultimate Truth. It is not changeless, it is not eternal. That is why all the time we seek something which is permanent, which does not change, which we can keep with ourselves always regardless of where we may be, what we may be doing. And this whole search is the search for one's own inner self.

Answer 7

"meaning??" more like purpose. The purpose of all of our lives is to procreate. Period, fini. As for meaning, it's what you want it to be. We, humans, can think that we are more 'special' than the birds, giraffes, etc., but basically we are not. They too are here to carry on the species, so basically meaning, per se, is meaningless ...... hope this makes sense. Don't want to be cynical, but in the grand scheme of things, this is the reality of the situation.

Answer 8

Love.

Answer 9

'Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.'

Answer 10

Life is just a big dream. We are already dead. When we die in this dream we wake up to our true existence.


Wow. That freaked me out.