What is the meaning of life?

Question

Somebody told me it was the number 42 but that doesn't make any sense :/

Answer 1

People has different point of view regarding on what is really the meaning of life. The meaning of life to me is to serve God and follow His will. I have faith that solely base on the bible so as a basis I will quote some verses coming from the bible.
Long time ago a wise man said this “Ecclesiastes 1:2 -14 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. “
If we will read the entire book of Ecclesiastes we will see that Solomon searching for “what is the purpose” or ”the meaning of life”. He do everything what his heart desire/wants but in the end he got one conclusion for what is the meaning or purpose of life: And he wrote “Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”
And I believe in what Solomon’s believe in.

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

Catholics believe the meaning of human life is to know and love God.

By the way, the number 42 is from the science fiction comedy novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams.

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

the answer to life the universe and everything is 42...and the question to which answer is 42 is: what do you get if you multiply six by nine?....that's all there is to it....lol

Answer 5

The person who told you it was "42" was referring to a hilarious book entitled "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

While nominally a science fiction book, it's really a bit of absurdist comedy, but that's an unfair and incomplete description.

I recommend reading the book.

Don't watch the movie though. The movie sucked, left out most the good parts of the book, and added a bunch of unfunny crap.

Answer 6

There is no meaning of life. Nor is there meaning in death.

In life "You are," and in death "You are not."

Therefore, make the most of what you can while "You are," and don't worry about making the most of what you can for the time "You are not." Let the latter resolve itself when you finally get there.

Luck!

Answer 7

The meaning of life is .....learn to live in the question. You'll understand that once you've sought the answer enough.

Answer 8

the person who told you likes the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
The meaning of life is different for every person, you have to figure out what it is for you.

Answer 9

why dont you ask the thousands of others who have asked this exact same question in the discovery section?

Answer 10

I have to disagree with distorted vision....the movie was very funny.
To answer your question....the meaning of life is..... to live it!