What's the meaning of life?

Question

Please, no stupid answers

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

The meaning of life is never to question it but to live it as it comes. Life is a stupid answer to a stupid question sometimes and other times it's a wise answer to a stupid question, or even a wise answer to a wise question. Spiritually speaking meaning of life is hidden in a burger or at the bottom of your cold Pepsi cola that you try to suck in with the hollow straw.

Answer 3

I think that Hey Ray guy is onto something. The meaning of life is to love, but you don't actually live until you die....your death to self interest is your neighbor's gain. You have to figure out your inner star and what your natural talents are so you can follow that dream. The requirement is that you follow it on the path of agape love. God is agape (unconditional love), therefore the meaning of life is to know and understand Him and what gifts He has given you: "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." 1 John 4:8 Be sure and take this spiritual gifts test: www.therocksandiego.org/giftstest
It will spell out your natural abilities for you. Wisdom has two sides: truth is always found in the tension of opposites like the ying and the yang, Newton's Law (Every action has an equal and opposite reaction), and as many of the writings of Solomon in Proverbs display. I would read them, for wisdom will lengthen your days and improve the quality of them. In God we trust.... xo

Answer 4

Normally I would say the meaning of life to me is to make Jessica happy.... However, I am sure you are not looking for that particular answer. The meaning of life can be many things for many different people. Perhaps the meaning of life for one person is to do God's will. Maybe another person's meaning of life is to be a good husband/wife, a good parent, and a loyal brother altogether. I think that what we interpret as the meaning of life is our goal in life to find a purpose. I think we are all really just trying to be content with our lives. When we are truly content with our lives, we stop asking ourselves what the meaning of life is, because we can answer what the meaning of life is to us. Notice when I started this answer, I said the meaning of life to me was to make Jessica happy. I love her more than anything, and I am sure that that is my purpose, atleast for now. Right now, I am content with pursuing that goal. This is just my opinion. I hope it helps.

Answer 5

It is 42.
But if you want me to way philosophic on it, I'll be wrong, I'm sure, however my theory is that life is for whatever you want it to be for.
Make it about enjoyment, if you like. Live purely for pleasure.
Or make it about enriching the rest of us, healing the world.
Personally, I try to do those two, and balance that against trying not to do too much harm, but I don't know that that is the right way to live. It feels right for me.
If you get right down to it, you can't tell the meaning of a life until it ends, so maybe you can't tell the meaning of Life until the universe ends.

Answer 6

You know, Monty Python made a movie about it. It was titled "The Meaning of Life". Buy it, rent it or borrow it from a friend. It really answers the question. And for you religious types, see "The Life of Brian". It is an amazing tale of Jesus' life.

Answer 7

I'd say it would depend on each individual. Some put money or fame as their God. Some put humanity or religion as their God.

I have provided links to you for the following terms.

"World View" and "General Semantics".

There is also an article by Kahlib J. Fischer but I cannot find it easily accessible to the public online.

Answer 8

The meaning of life is to make something out of what you started with.

Answer 9

To perfect the equation through your hard work, failings, experiences, idea dissimination. Everything you do, has a reverberation, and these ideas of mind, all converge to others, for the Universe is searching for the optimal way of our organization. We decide this...just as our ancestors decided through millions of years of wisdom by nature...to implement our current neurally hardwired impulses.

This is the way it is. Your every action, is another 'force' that perfects the equation--it competes, converges, or allies itself with others, which in time..reveals new ways of wisdom, new ways of thinking...and perfects the overall equation.

As you do this, and offer your uniqueness through self-improvement, nature and the Universe will naturally offer you happiness in the path you have chosen.

Answer 10

There is none.

Come to terms with this fact and get back at me when you formulate your own meaning of life.

Also, try to constrain your meaning to YOUR life, not the lives of OTHERS because that's how Spanish Inquisitions come about.