What is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

Life – it has a meaning and loving purpose - you just have to find your purpose and live it.

I believe every person is here for a definite purpose. Each person is special and valuable; that refers to me, you, your family, friends, in fact everybody! There is a loving plan for each of our lives here on earth and there is no such thing as coincidence. I don't believe that anything in life happens by chance and that every aspect of our lives points to something deeper.

You need to decide now to live for God rather than for yourself. You spend your life on Earth preparing yourself (as best you can) for death. I don't see death as a scary, negative experience, but birth into a bliss filled eternal life with God. I believe that this is something you have to consciously choose or not during your life on earth.

The meaning of life is for us to discover that we are true children of an infinitely loving God, to find out what our responsibilities are to our Creator, and to fulfill those responsibilities. Each of us is called to affirm, accept and develop the talents God has given us. -

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

By religion -> To live life in the way the god/s has stated and get the divine reward after death.

By philosophy -> To find deeper and personal meaning as to why you exist as a person, other than what is defined by religion and science.

By science -> The meaning of life is securing future life. Reproduction and securing the life for future generations is what matters.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The meaning of life is to do God's will. We normally do not know what that will is, but we hopefully will get it done.

Answer 6

the meaning of life is to ability to inquire about the meaning of life. that is what makes us human. we are aware of our existence unlike other creatures. we think about, we agonize, we beat our heads against the wall trying to figure it all out.

Answer 7

Life has no meaning till you give it some.

Love and blessings Don.

Answer 8

the meaning of life in my opinion is enjoying and fulfilling our deed . its the most wonderful thing that god presented to us. our life is the like a sweet flower. your life depends on how you enjoy it.
best luck enjoy your life

Answer 9

It really is very, very simple.

We are all machines to enable our genes to replicate. That is the meaning of life.

Of course what we choose to do with the almost mathematically impossible odds of ourselves been born is rather up to us.

Answer 10

The value lies in your connections with other people. What you give to them , and what they give to you.