2007-02-21 09:41:56 · 26 answers · asked by Ayrton M 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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 12:50:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 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.
2007-02-21 17:44:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In brief..
First: The lifes is three:
1- The present life.
2- The Grave life.
3- The Hereafter life.
Second: it's a bridge to The Hereafter life.
2007-02-21 18:42:27 · answer #3 · answered by Slave for The Only God 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I think the guy who thought of 42 was trying to say that life is just life it has no purpose. The meaning is what we bring to it. What did your life mean.Each life has its own meaning and that is up too you., Now I only wathched the movie I never read the book.
2007-02-21 17:48:23 · answer #4 · answered by Rich 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
42
2007-02-21 17:44:01 · answer #5 · answered by Stormilutionist Chasealogist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
42
2007-02-21 17:43:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Reverence Yahweh by keeping his laws: for this is the whole duty of man.
Isa 8:20 To the law and to the prophecy: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
But if I am delayed, I write so that you may know the right and proper way to conduct yourself in THE HOUSE OF YAHWEH, who are the called out ones of the living Father, the pillar and ground of the truth.
http://www.yahweh.com/
2007-02-21 18:28:18 · answer #7 · answered by YUHATEME 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one knows...science or organzied religion. I kno there is truth out there. I have felt it thru meditation and enthergenic substances. These things can help ease the centeral nervous system and help u feel pure spiritual bliss. I think that time is an illusion and are minds cant grasp this....everything is now, so there is no begining r end to ne the univrese.
2007-02-21 17:47:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is to enjoy it and have as much fun as you can with it. And find new things out.
2007-02-21 17:45:00 · answer #9 · answered by Mississippi Girl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Deep Thought, the supercomputer, the meaning of life, the universe, and everything is...is...FOURTY-TWO!
2007-02-21 17:47:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋