What's the point of life?

Question

if u think about it everyone's dieing...
i mean i'd like to believe that after death you go to heaven n stuff but i really just think your dead.
any zombies no the answer? lol

Answer 1

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 2

this zombie thinks that there is nothing after life, but if you are religious at all you are brought up to think so, and that seems comforting enough.
The cruel point of life is basically to be born, reproduce,and die. But along the way I think we all have to do our part to make this seemingly boring cycle as interesting as possible. So I think the ultimate point of life is to live it.

Answer 3

Death ought not to make you sad, many men of wisdom including Gandhi have said. Death is but a threshold to another existence. Birth and death are but the same sides of the same coin. We need to develop a philosophical attitude to life and be satisfied in doing our duty to the best of our ability, without any attachment from it.

Answer 4

In short, i believe that the purpose of life is to be as happy as possible as long as it is not at the expense of other people's happiness. In fact, if you could make others better off in addition to your well-being, then that's even better!!
:-)

i think in the end there is a lesson..i just don't know what it is yet.

Answer 5

I used to feel the same way then this happened to me.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 6

hai frnd,
"life after death". its a good belief, i dont know whether it is true of lies but onething there is a fact in that line.
u know life and everything goes behind us just according to our imagination and belief and faith.
if u believe that there is no god u goes just in that way. u find nothing after death, u just lose urself. and if u belief that there's life u will realise it. just bcos u hav faith in that.
even the supreme power that we believe as god, is also just a faith.and many r happy with it. their many wishes are fulfilling just with a faith that there's a power that will look after the good and bad of them.
quran,bhagwatgeeta,bible and all holy books says one thing. in many points they hav one meaning.just this humans make differ in them.
look if u believe u hav a superpower of grassping one's thoughts or guessing wht happens next, u will b correct many times. may not b always but many times bcos just u hav faith
THIS IS THE SECRET OF LIFE.
faith is the foundation for life after death (this ismy strong feeling) i hav realised many and many things with faith.this is very powerful think about it......

Answer 7

The meaning of life cannot be understood or explained in rational terms. This is because rational thinking is strictly a product (or tool) of our intellect, which in turn is a product of life. Life itself much greater than the human mind, so it can't be understood.

Answer 8

It is like a test to see what we will do go through a good path or bad path and at the end the bad people will go to hell and the good people will go to heaven

Answer 9

life is faith

life is in living it in its fullest

life of think good and positively

point of life is not lie but to be in truth

one day everyone hav to die than live now and be happy that god had gifted you the live of human being and not of dog.

so the point is to make some point in life and make it for ever

Answer 10

life is the heaven of the world.If you will live with good habits,help to others, and live for others ,you are in heaven in real life. life is liveness for the society.You dont think death,and heaven.Choose your life .that is heaven.If you live in this , your soul is also in heaven always. that is life.