2007-02-05 06:45:45 · 34 answers · asked by Mikee L 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Catholics believe the meaning of human life is to know and love God.
With love in Christ.
2007-02-06 16:59:38 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 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.
2007-02-05 06:49:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's whatever u make of it. If u live a good life then the meaning is good if u live a terrible life well then the meaning is the life is terrible.
2007-02-05 06:52:05 · answer #3 · answered by missgigglebunny 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"What is the meaning of life?" is probably the most-asked philosophical question by humanity at large, though we will probably never find the answer, for whatever reason. Common answers include: happiness or flourishing; love; compassion; pleasure; reproduction; power; 42; knowledge, understanding, or wisdom; and being blessed, or achieving union with God or the divine; or simply that there is no meaning to life.
2007-02-05 06:56:10 · answer #4 · answered by Capernaum12 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There simply is no meaning to life, religion would have you believe they know the meaning and reason for life, and mans perception and understanding of that interpretation is why man is taking so long to realize the real reason for his existence.
2007-02-05 07:04:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The meaning of life is to not know the meaning of life until you die... or else life won't have any point in the first place :D
2007-02-05 06:48:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
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2007-02-05 06:49:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
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2007-02-05 06:48:14 · answer #8 · answered by XX 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
the meaning of life is what you make it to be. If you want to be happy strive for that. If you want success strive for it. Do what is right in your heart. there is no universal definition you have to find the meaning within yourself.
2007-02-05 06:50:36 · answer #9 · answered by divieshb 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
life has no meaning you create that meaning because its your life!
2007-02-05 06:49:20 · answer #10 · answered by The Kellster 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋