Whats the point to life?

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

To learn and grow spiritually and to discover the true meaning of love.

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother
don

Answer 3

In a more-or-less empty Universe, we can give life"a point".

i go along with the late Sir karl Popper who would have

agreed i think with the aim of being helpful and kind not only

to our neighbor,but to everyone else as well.

And this is or should be (part of) the Christian way,if not any

other Faith's way too.

Answer 4

Everyone has a different point of view, for me life is a race , if you play according to the rules noone gets hurt and you get to the end safe and happy with the memory of the fair play, if you don't many people may get hurt during the race and even you may be in danger and if you finish then you exclude because you didn't follow the rules and never gets a prise. It's up to you.

Answer 5

Yes plenty of infantile Christian answers here. If "God" created us what was he thinking? Why does he need us, to satisfy a giant ego? To worship and adore a giant ego? To prove how great he is? To prove how pathetic his creation is as opposed to him and his giant ego? Does he love the chaos he created? Or does he not exist? There is no point to life, most of us try our best even though we don't know why. The rest are tyrants, politicians and dumb soldiers.
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I like how you accept a million meanings EWF. It's a good way of thinking. I can't accept it though.For myself. However I have been parachuting, (military style). It's great. You don't fall from as great a height as sky diving but then novice skydivers usually have to jump in tandem, parachuters do not. Think about what you'd like more.(Bungee jumping is a childs game).

Answer 6

Better question, "Whats the point to YOUR life?"

Life is what you make it based on what values one possess.
Those of us blessed to have truly loving and caring parents, see life a bit different from some who were not as fortunate.

I have goodness to offer the world! I make a difference in the lives of those around me...for the good. I have value.....
and so do you!!!

Answer 7

I kNOW:
in this life you must treat you and others decent because if you dont you will come back to repete the events in a worse life than before. the point of life is to acheive a higher level in the next by trying to make a possitive dent in this one.

Answer 8

Christ told us there were two things for us to do in life.

1. Love God with all of your heart, mind and spirit, and;

2. To love one another as we would like to be loved.

Most people find these two statements to be infantile in nature. Simple minded people believing simple mind things.

However, if you take a closer look at point two, because point one is a given, if we love - meaning accepting, giving and containing the same kind of love that Jesus has for his followers and that He has commanded men to have for their wives (i.e. to be willing to die for them as He died for the church) then we would never do anything that would harm another...in any way.

We would cease hating, fighting, lying, using and on and on. Because that is how we should want to be treated.

The meaning of life...to love one another, purely.

Answer 9

to make the human race survive throughout all of time

Answer 10

whatever you wish for it to be. (hopefully not harming others in the process)