what is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

Meaning exists in an observer's mind by percieving patterns through thier senses.

For example 'cow' (functionally simply three letters in a row) 'means' a domestic animal farmed for milk, meat and leather. Show those same three letters to someone who cannot read English and there is no meaning.

Simarlarly (and with a lot more complexity) life means whatever patterns your mind can make from its experiences.

But I presume you're after something a bit more 'spiritual' i.e. what is the point of life? Well I'd say that you're making one big assumption - that there NEEDS to be a point; that there is some goal or acheivement that explains why life happens.

As an athiest, who does not believe in a creator, I don't believe that there is a 'point' to life. Which is not the same as saying life is pointless. Chance and time have conspired to create me, and it's pretty amazing that I'm here. So one of the main motivators of my life is to make the most of my mind-boggling unlikely existence and experience as much as is possible. And because of my socialisation (which is Chrisitan-based) I intend to do that while trying to minimise my negative impacts on others' life experience.

That means, for example, I choose not to experience what it's like to murder someone. But I may choose to have an affair if the prospect of the experience outways my 'negative impact' response.

But that's just the meaning (or point) of my life. There is no reason why anybody else should see it in the same way - making the idea of a universal meaning to life a nonsense. (Your meaning of life might be to kill as many puppies as you can.)

By presuming a universal meaning of life, you're presuming a universal truth, which starts edging into the realms of a conscious creator - something which I don't subsrcibe to but to which many people do.

It's a good question (so I've given you a star) and I hope my answer has opened an interesting way for you to approach your musings.

Answer 2

Without end, infinite, the all possible. You are not greater than the very structure of your existence, show me where and when your thoughts cannot occur due to and end boundry. This does niether exist nor occur there will never be a thought you cannot have or a wall placed as an end so that you can go no further. You are made from the first primal point of existence and this my dear friend was/is endless.

Answer 3

42

Answer 4

42

Answer 5

Sex Fascination—The Disease of the Modern Age.

Sex is the overwhelming obsession of modern society. Sexual promiscuity is so unrelentingly stressed that anyone who does not appear to the highly interested in it is generally considered to be a crank. Social pressure induces people to try to maintain juvenile lustiness long after the sensual high of youth has subsided. Thus millions of people remain emotionally immature all their lives. It is a sick world.

Constant titillation of the senses, however, increasingly dulls the spirit. Thus, despite all the celluloid promises, people find themselves cheated of real happiness. In adolescence, when the senses appear to have unlimited power to invoke euphoric delights, happiness through sense enjoyment seems not only to be a distinct possibility, but the very meaning of life. But the pleasures of youth, as the poets lament, is but a fleeting frolic. The ability of the body to enjoy is like a water-laden sponge. At first, if you just pinch it, water gushes out. But as it is squeezed more and more, it gradually becomes difficult to get even a few drops of water from it.

Similarly, attempts for sexual enjoyment increasingly result in emptiness and frustration. Still, most people fail to recognize the limits of sexual enjoyment. Due to their misdirected education, they think that their lack of satisfaction with sex means there is something wrong in their approach to it. They may end up on a psychologist’s couch or reading some of the hundreds of books on “improved” sex life (Yoga for Sex, Tao for Sex, The Modern Woman’s Guide to Sex, A Doctor’s Sex Secrets, Diet for Better Sex, etc.). However, the harder they grope for pleasure, the more surely it eludes them. As they furiously try to force their bodies into giving them the happiness which they regard as a natural birthright, they may turn to frequent masturbation, increased promiscuity, pornography, varieties of perversity, and ultimately violence.

Actual civilization teaches its members to sublimate their sexual desires for higher, spiritual purposes. Modern civilization exploits people’s sexual cravings, makes a business out of it, and sends people to hell by the millions.

Seeing all this, the Vaisnavas are sorry. If only people could understand this simple fact: We are all eternal servants of Krsna. Our sexual desire is simply a perverted reflection of our heart’s deepest longings to love Krsna. If we just knew this we could all be happy. But in the darkness of the modern age it is very difficult to convince anyone that there is anything wrong with sex at all.

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Answer 6

Life is love.

Answer 7

In one word; existence. That or 42... I am partial to the theory of tablet rasa, but that will eventually be debunked.

Answer 8

Life, for me, is something that we have that we cannot do anything about it but to live it to the fullest. Though, I think life is a bore, maybe we must find the reason for us to live and try to find the place where "He" lives. Sounds corny, huh?

Answer 9

the meaning of life is to ponder on the question "what is the meaning of life"

Answer 10

Do what you can to lessen suffering, learn everything, especially about love. Keep a sense of humor and humility, while you travel through.