meaning of life?

Question

what is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

You are actually asking two different questions:

1. What is the purpose of life?
2. What is the meaning of life?

By way of example -- if I hold up an empty water balloon and ask you what it's purpose is, the most basic answer is 'water transportation via aerial mode.' That's all the purpose is -- it is a reason for existing. If it is sitting on a shelf in a store, it has that purpose, if it's in my hand filled and ready to go, it has that purpose.

Meaning, however, is something that is ascribed to an object. I fill such a balloon with water so that I can tag my mother during the next family reunion summer-fun party. That is now its meaning -- joy and playfulness. It did not have that meaning on the store shelf. There, at the store, its meaning was profit -- the owner of the store hoped someone would buy it and thus the owner would make profit off it.

So to go back to your questions -- what is the purpose of life? It has none. To have a purpose means that an intelligent being must have created it. Purpose is an intended direction, a best-suited direction, and life has no creator nor an intended direction. Life is inherantly purposeless.

What is the meaning of life? Because we are self-aware, even in acknowledging the purposelessness of life, we can ascribe a meaning to it. For many people, this meaning is little more than that they hope to live day by day. Some people make religion their meaning, others knowledge, others intentionally make hate or cruelty their meaning -- no one said all meaning has to be good. It just gives us a reason to wake up in the morning and defy our purposelessness.

Answer 3

Religions are all based on “information” that comes from nature’s energy which is what everything and everyone is made of, which may be sound, electrons, or anything else that science has proven, this energy is also known as the holly spirit or God, an omnipotent force, this so called information which has existed since “the beginning” has just been sensed, interpreted or channeled in different ways by different cultures according to the way they perceive the world or their particular existence. Ascribing Virtues and Meaning to these manifestations of energy, being the same basic information about spiritual growth and equilibrium and how to achieve it through one’s actions and decisions and about how things will come to pass, prophecies about earthly events which affect spiritual growth. Some of these prophecies include the annunciation, birth of Jesus Christ and the coming of the magi to his birth, which was prophesized by the Egyptians, but wrongly ascribed to how they believed one of their pagan gods had been born.

Pagan Gods: Adoration to images of human perceptions of divine energy, perceived and given virtues based on culture’s idealization on their association with the meaning of these virtues.

Being manifestations of energy, humans shape their soul throughout life so that when their physical bodies cease to function, their spirit may merge with the rest of the divine omnipotent energy, and avoid merging with the simultaneous opposite manifestation of this energy, the first being a feeling of all that one desires and considers good, against the feeling of all that one despises and considers evil; an example of interpretation of this information by culture through time is the idea of the Taiji (the ying and the yang). Another interpretation of the pureness of these forces, God the father opposed to the devil, and their respective “places”, Heaven and Hell, all that you desire against all that you despise.

Answer 4

Life is God' s greatest gift to us.We should take life as a challenge and should not dread it.Most of us think it to be an empty dream.we should all enjoy life as it consists of sorrows and joys.Life is not at all meaningless.A lethargic man has a dead soul.Appearance isDeceptive.We do not realize our own potential.Life is like a battleground.We must handle the situations heriocally.Life is precious.It must not be idled away.
Thus success and failure are a partand parcel of life.I would like to qoute H.W Longfellow "Life is Real,Life is earnest and the grave is not our goal"

Answer 5

I like the water balloon guy's direction.

However, I differ with the part about god not creating us.

Therefore using his same logic.

God created us in his image. (Purpose)

Why?(meaning)
Buddhists feel this is a futile question. They assume god is on such a higher level than us that there is no reason to even contemplate what he is? what he wants?etc...

I'll take a leap from my own perspective. He gave us free will, the ability to have emotions, and a certain level of self awareness. Lastly, if you believe this, he gave us an internal soul.

Now what you do with these gifts is the meaning of life.

that's all I know.

Answer 6

The answer to that question is the question itself. Life is the meaning of life

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

FULL OF JOY. FULL OF BLISS!!
When you born, you breath in. When you die, you breath out. Every moment you breath in and breath out. Every moment you live and you die. JUST Don't forget it. Life can be of any moment or life can be 100 of years.
So take it bold way and just be "Cloud". Go as wind take you. Follow it. No hard feelings. have smile all the time. HUG more and more people. Be simply positive.
This is what I believe and I follow.
God Bless You!!

Answer 9

I have no idea your age bit I would venture "young" Life is "what YOU MAKE IT" my friend. Your here because of your Mother and Father and the Holy Father. You have the ability to be and do "anything" you want "with EDUCATION" Learn all you can and put your "TALENTS" to work God Bless and Respect to YOU My FRIEND>

Answer 10

As for the purpose of life, I know the purpose is to obey and worship the One who put you here - your Creator.

As for the meaning - well, everyone's life has it's own special meaning. We all our achieve our purpose through different means, so each individual finds their own meaning throughout life. :)