what is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

Thats like saying "what is the meaning of a battery" to produce electricity.

What is the meaning of food" - to be consumed

What is the meaning of shoes- to be worn.

Last, also first, What is the meaning of life- To be lived.

Answer 2

Glory be and behold, for what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are there, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! i know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible ... while considering that, I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive. lest ye shall not forget, what the german spirit might be—who has not had his melancholy ideas about that! but this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two greatest european narcotics, alcohol and christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

Answer 3

The meaning of life has different perceptions based on the individual. I feel the meaning of life= being granted with the most precious gift ever known to man. The ability to perceive the world through touch, sights, scent, taste, and noise. The ability to breathe and incorporate one's being with nature by living alongside glorious natural masterpieces. The meaning of life is to live it to the fullest by making certain that no aspect of this life is taken for granted.

Answer 4

Only when we trust our intuition can we be creative and find a sense of meaning in this miserable world, but no way of life is more haunted by pitfalls into the abyss of hopelessness. When you’ve touched the specimen stones of universal insight, you experience a moment of gratification not comparable with any stimulus found in the material world. But as the devils watchdogs keeps pulling your leg, sooner or later you’ll loose balance and land harder than anyone who thinks moderation expresses some sort of life wisdom. In the quest for truth there can be no moderation. The reason for this is that if every clear thought, every principle, every logical argumentation, is to be modified by common sense, then what we end up with is mental stagnation. And to me, mental stagnation equals death. Common sense is a mixture of sense and prejudice in an indistinguishable stew of unclear, often contradictory set of thoughts. It might teach you how to survive in this world, but I prefer to be on the brink of the precipice rather than to adapt to something so incompatible with honest reflection.
To genuinely believe in and live by the philosophy that acquiring truth is the main purpose of life, will inevitably create an insurmountable void between yourself an most other people. You simply cannot accept and keep the set of norms and moral standards partly imposed on you in childhood, so you decide to base your way of life on your own reasoning. This makes it possible for you to see things clearly where others are blinded by their habit thinking.

Answer 5

It depends on what you believe. Enlightenment? Salvation? Who is to say that this isn't death and we are waiting in Hell for a second chance? One possibility is that the reason behind living is to have a feeling or a thought that the world would lack without you having existed. Chances are that you will die and be forgortten, but you had a feeling that was unique to you and no one else. No one else will have the same memories as you do or the same interpretation as you do. Helium will always have 2 protons in its nucleus whether you exist or not, but the feelings you leave and the people you chance will be transformed forever until they too fade from memory. Then the people they touch and you touch indirectly continue the chain.

Answer 6

Life is the greatest story ever told. Our purpose is to find our way back to God while simultaneously experiencing the world in all of its fallenness-- the oscillation between pain and elation is what makes our heartstrings vibrate, so to say. God has brought us into being because of love, and we must respond to that love. Whether you find this by being an artist, a scientist, an altruist, or someone else is between you and Him. Sometimes it will take hard work, sometimes it will take spontaneity. But, ultimately, we must seek our Creator, our beginning and our end.

Answer 7

Life has no meaning. There is absolutely no great design that requires the participation of you, me or anyone else. Moreover, life can't have any meaning due to our amazingly short lifespan.

Answer 8

Love. Beauty. Pleasure. Happiness.

The meaning of life is to live it to its fullest. To enjoy it as long as it lasts. To love yourself, others, the planet & all its creatures. To appreciate all the beauty that is there.

Answer 9

i was always told, happiness to just be happy with what you have done good or bad the kind of happiness that when say you come home from a hard day at work where most would be un happy tired and miserable, you are just content, happy

Answer 10

Why would life have a meaning?

(Sadly the correct answers are often the least popular.)