What is the meaning of life, why are we here, what are we supposed to do, just waste away and die? Why are we all here if we're just going to die anyway?? just wondering.... And no, Im not a depressed psycho. just asking. geez.
2007-02-20 07:13:39 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Im not religious, so please don't do tell me reincarnation or heaven or anything.
2007-02-20 08:05:43 · update #1
I ask this same question once in a meditation. The answer came clear as a bell.
It said I have placed you here to learn the true meaning of Love. What ever it was that was answering then told me something that really set me back. It said that I felt the way I did about certain people because I did not understand the true meaning of love. I protested and said that I did my best to love all of the people who were deserving of love.
It replied "yes that is your misunderstanding. You see love as something that you dole out in tiny little portions here and there to people who you have judged to be worthy of it. This is not love at all, it is only judgment". This stopped me dead in my tracks. I suddenly realized that what it was saying to me was true. This realization brought me to tears. It went
on and told me, "You treat love as though there is some shortage of it. It is not something that you can run out of. The more love that you give, the more love that there is in the world. Its that simple. The only way that there can be a shortage of it is if you hoard it and keep it to yourself."
It went on to explain, that "this is what Jesus was trying to tell you when he asked you to turn the other cheek, to judge not and to love your neighbor. He made no exceptions in these things that he requested of you. Why are you making exceptions, and judging some as worthy of love and others as not? Jesus fully intended for you to apply this love that you are to all, in a universal manner without any judgment of any sort". By this time the tears Were flowing freely. I was crying because for the first time in my life I Understood what the message Jesus left for us in the bible actually meant.
This has become my truth. I can't say what yours is for sure, but I have a feeling that it is probably similar.
Love and blessings
don
2007-02-23 12:55:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-02-20 07:21:27 · answer #2 · answered by Michael E 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple I save you some time : Love
You were created to love God and people. That is the only reason you are here. Alot of people make this question into something big! Everything was created for love. I hope that answers your question.
Read the bible sometime.
2007-02-20 07:18:30 · answer #3 · answered by DelightBunnie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To live means to joyfully know that I'm a vital and functional human and not a dead body or a plant. My purpose is to continuously gain evidence from my environment and others that my existence matters to them and in turn give them solid evidence that their existence matters to me. My environment includes nature so my work has been to discover as much about it as is possible before expiring.
2007-02-20 09:20:46 · answer #4 · answered by Mad Mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That all depends on your beliefs and your culture, So people have diffrent meanings like for say a Hindu's meaning in like is to fufill thier darma, only to reincarnate to one day be one with thier god Braman. So you have to find YOUR meaning in life, not THE meaning in life its all up to you!
2007-02-20 07:26:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that the purpose of life is to make it having meaning for you. I think that we are supposed to procreate and maintain this earth, and that if's up to us each to do something meaningful in our lives.
2007-02-20 08:56:56 · answer #6 · answered by Sugarbaby 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think.. I THINK that we're just here because we can. i'm not really religious or anything, so ..looking at science.. (this is awkward.. talking about science in the philosophy place) Earth's climate and resources are perfect for our existance.
2007-02-20 07:58:44 · answer #7 · answered by J L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is suffering. Why are you here? To transcend suffering through nonattachment (which is not the same as detachment at all).
2007-02-20 08:20:48 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the meaning of life is to search for a meaning to life and once we realize this we realize there is no further purpose once you learn the meaning of life (which i just told you) life loses all meaning.
2007-02-20 08:58:11 · answer #9 · answered by bobinstien420 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life has no meaning.
2007-02-20 08:29:11 · answer #10 · answered by chefeclin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋