2007-03-19 20:08:48 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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. -
2007-03-19 21:48:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.....
2007-03-21 01:45:29 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is very complicated. You may say it's like a tree, you see one stem with full sets of branches and roots that dig deep down in different directions. And then you classify yourself where you belong. But life is, if you agree, is an energy that powers every movements of our existence, of every living things, both plants and animals above and below the surface of the earth. And for humans well, at the end of the day through hardships and weariness, happiness or joyfulness, the way how you live it, etc. determine what life is. But don't be confused where that energy came from, between God and the sun. Imagine life is full of beliefs and disbeliefs.
2007-03-20 06:18:12 · answer #3 · answered by nevard d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are trying to find answers were none exist. Our existents, culture, society, is a beautiful accident. So the meaning of life is that it doesn’t matter.
Just one of Gods little jokes? Or a game where we make up the rules while searching for something to say, or nothing more than the sentient realisation of an organism that is a slave to its spiralling coils of self replicating DNA.
So try and by nice to people, avoided eating fat, read a good book now and again, get some walking in, and try to live together in peace and harmony with everyone of all creeds and nations.
2007-03-20 10:06:09 · answer #4 · answered by Justsomeguy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-03-20 03:33:35 · answer #5 · answered by PsiKnight9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one knows what the meaning of life is. But, my philosophy is that life is very short and unpredictable so don't focus on irrelevancies (who cares if he didn't call) and focus on having the most meaningful and fulfilling life as possible.
2007-03-20 03:21:27 · answer #6 · answered by Alana 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love.
Love you. Love others. Love the world. Love God (whatever you choose to call Him.) Love beauty. Love art, music, nature. Love life. The experience of living. This is the meaning of life, to love it. To make the most of it. To enjoy it.
Life without love is meaningless.
2007-03-20 03:45:23 · answer #7 · answered by amp 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can search for meaning till the cows come home & you'll find none. On the other hand life is in the living of it & not in theorising of it.
2007-03-20 03:32:39 · answer #8 · answered by Praxis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-03-20 03:37:59 · answer #9 · answered by small 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
to live and do it as well as you can some say to worship god other say worship yourself and if you are really good maybe worshiped by others to live means to take advantage of every breath like it is your last
but if you ask me what you should do with your life i say you are foolish to ask some one that you only get one life here it is heaven for some and hell for others.
2007-03-20 03:22:00 · answer #10 · answered by jeff i 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋