What is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

The meaning of life is to give some meaning to our life.

Answer 2

80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions recently:

1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.

So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.


To be or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is inevitable.....

Answer 3

That life gives me the opportunity to oppose insipid answers like the one above is a good clue. Not only does the answerer confute meaning to be a kind of definition, there is an elaboration offered!

Given such a broad question, very often you'll see that the university hack can't cope...there must be some delimitation of the inquiry. My life takes on great meaning when I have the chance to oppose this nonsense. I've found that quite a few of my own questions function to bring them "out of the woodwork".

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

A really wicked, Chinese takeaway, with an ice cold lager, whilst watching a fantastic DVD! Simply the reason for living and breathing!
A close second is to read the Times over say 3 hours on a Saturday, drinking coffee and eating ham and salad sandwiches, covered in honey mustard dressing, and made from freshly baked bread!

Answer 6

This question has been asked every week at times on this site. Its wrong. Sorry. You have started off on an assumption. You have assumed there is a meaning. Now you want to know what that is. Its like why is the moon green? So better to ask Is there a meaning first. Or why are you late for College this morning? I have assumed you go to College and are late! First things first.

Answer 7

Life isn't the kind of thing to which meanings attach. Sentences are the kind of things to which meanings attach. But the human mind can combine concepts regardless of whether they properly belong together, in badly-formed questions, and then get preoccupied with why answers are so hard to find. This is one such question.
Better to ask, "How should one direct his life's energy?"
Just take care of yourself and others, and be prepared to cut more slack for others than you do for yourself, because you'll never entirely overcome humanity's self-centered biases.

Answer 8

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 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 9

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Answer 10

You answer lies within your question. The meaning of life is that life has meaning.