2007-02-07 05:41:14 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Absolutly! The meaning of life is to LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE. If I can do that to the best of my ability every day then I will never fear death because my life was good and fulfilling.
2007-02-07 05:47:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-02-07 13:45:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
For the most part it is everything that shapes our beliefs regarding death, it simply comes down to the hope that we are right.
2007-02-07 13:52:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Methinks we are here to learn. The range of feelings and emotions we discover through life are tools for the next. We are here to experience the good and the bad and each situation we find ourselves in is a test of those qualities. I don't think this has any bearing on death as its one thing we all have in common. Wisdom comes with age and we live as long as we are meant to.
2007-02-07 15:13:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death is just an unconsious sleep. its not hell or anything. The meaning of life is to do god's will until he destroys the wicked at armageddon
2007-02-07 13:44:25 · answer #5 · answered by Rae 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
we are only here to develop spiritually and discover the truth, be awaken. after that your concept of death will change totally.
2007-02-07 13:52:50 · answer #6 · answered by valeska 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the meaning of life, i dont think we will ever know that, and as for death, who knows what waits for us, i just hope my family are there.....
2007-02-07 13:44:52 · answer #7 · answered by kit 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it is to glorify god no mater what you do he is glorify if you sin we judge that sin by his goodness if you do good he is glorified in the same why .god wins either way because he is god .no man can bring shame onto god .should this change who you are what you do well either why god wins you only win when you do good and follow the rules
2007-02-07 13:47:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Take me to the river and drop me in.
2007-02-07 13:45:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thats what I would like to know!
2007-02-07 13:44:09 · answer #10 · answered by the mrs 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋