What is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

what is the meaning of death.

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

Everyone's meaning is different. You make your own meaning. Some people's meaning is to only die sof a drug overdose, while others is to raise a family or be a success at their career. Your life is only what you make of it, and you can only find out the meaning once you are able to look back on your life, whether it's 20 or 80.

Answer 4

"Life means no harm- unless you wish it to. Life is a query - that is; if you are on a quest. Life is a battle- should you wish to fight. Life is an anwer you will never get right. For life is a word - pure semantics, a sound, an illustrated or computerised font pattern that is no more than a man made rather abstract term. The meaning of life (in the spiritual sense) is more likely to be found amoungst those who ask such questions such as 'what is the meaning of life?' "

Answer 5

THE MEANING OF LIFE IS GIVING LIFE A MEANING

Answer 6

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 7

Life as such has no meaning. Life is the overall context in which
ideas, goals and meanings are formed and pursued.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

The meaning of life is to wear more hats,
Treat all human beings with respect,
Live on the path you have chosen whether others view it as good or evil,
and of course to die.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

Instead of coming up with something inspiring and metaphysical, let's look at it biologically.

Biologically, the meaning of life is to survive long enough to reproduce before you get eaten.