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

To exist, experience. To be. How can it be otherwise? No, don't move on, think about it, all experiences, all point in being, all existence would then only have the goal to be, to be for the contribution to the experience of everything as a whole. To represent as many simulations of existence as can be.

Whenever you ask a question about anything, think vertically, does the solution or answer matter, or can you find a solution that covers more than just that of which you ponder?

I do not claim to know anything as truth- just to live out life by what presents itself to be true, at the moment of my thought

Answer 4

that depends on what your life-time goal is?
I've always wanted to live to 100 years old or over! So I guess my purpose in life is to try and live to at least 100...and just have fun along the way!

Answer 5

I just read everyone else's answers and I like:

"i don't really know. maybe the meaning of life is to just live it and find out for yourself what the true meaning is."
-- ~Mrs.Nissie~

and

"teach what you know
learn what you don't"
-- ireland

I guess you have to find it out for yourself. You can't really get the answer from someone else. It's whatever you believe, I guess. Just don't force your beliefs on anyone else.

Answer 6

um.. the meaning of life? the meaning of life is different to everyone. its something that u have to discover for urself. Honestly, though, life is just gettin through school, attempting to make somethign of urself and get a job, make a living, and attempting to die happy. life isn't all that and a bag of chips unless u do something that u wanna do...

Answer 7

Living for our own self is ordinary... just like any living being.

Living for our loved ones is normal.... just like any other human being.

Living for a cause beyond ourselves and also beyond our loved ones is extraordinary...... the sublime happiness it gives is well deserved by the few emancipated human beings who choose to live this way.

The true meaning of life lies in how it is lived.

Answer 8

i don't really know. maybe the meaning of life is to just live it and find out for yourself what the true meaning is.

Answer 9

"Cheeeeeese!"
---Rufus Prime, the naked mole rat in answering the same question before an audience of hundreds of his highly evolved super strong, super smart descendants after travelling to the future. I am sure there is a lesson in there somewhere.

Answer 10

This completely original question comes up about every 20 minutes or so.

Life has no meaning. There is no grand design and none of us are anything special.