I have my ideas but what are yours...
2007-03-23 06:17:46 · 13 answers · asked by bumblecustard 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I knew someone was going to say 42.
2007-03-23 06:20:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are actually asking two different questions:
1. What is the purpose of life?
2. What is the meaning of life?
By way of example -- if I hold up an empty water balloon and ask you what it's purpose is, the most basic answer is 'water transportation via aerial mode.' That's all the purpose is -- it is a reason for existing. If it is sitting on a shelf in a store, it has that purpose, if it's in my hand filled and ready to go, it has that purpose.
Meaning, however, is something that is ascribed to an object. I fill such a balloon with water so that I can tag my mother during the next family reunion summer-fun party. That is now its meaning -- joy and playfulness. It did not have that meaning on the store shelf. There, at the store, its meaning was profit -- the owner of the store hoped someone would buy it and thus the owner would make profit off it.
So to go back to your questions -- what is the purpose of life? It has none. To have a purpose means that an intelligent being must have created it. Purpose is an intended direction, a best-suited direction, and life has no creator nor an intended direction. Life is inherantly purposeless.
What is the meaning of life? Because we are self-aware, even in acknowledging the purposelessness of life, we can ascribe a meaning to it. For many people, this meaning is little more than that they hope to live day by day. Some people make religion their meaning, others knowledge, others intentionally make hate or cruelty their meaning -- no one said all meaning has to be good. It just gives us a reason to wake up in the morning and defy our purposelessness.
2007-03-23 13:21:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life = finding meaning in your own life.
2007-03-23 13:20:33 · answer #3 · answered by Virgo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
42
2007-03-23 13:19:48 · answer #4 · answered by KryptonOne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is finding out the TRUTH about who our Creator is, what He has given to us, and what He expects from us.
You have your ideas of what life is but are you sure that you are right?
God is real, Heaven is real.
Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they don't exist.
You can't see peoples spirits but threre's evidence that something is in us to make us think, talk ect..
If you truly seek Him out you will find Him.
Life's too short to screw up eternity.
2007-03-23 13:40:26 · answer #5 · answered by chris4him 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My meaning of life is to LOVE yourself and to pass this feeling on to all you meet. Every thing in life moves without you. Take care of self and be true to who you are!
2007-03-23 13:22:10 · answer #6 · answered by Peace 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
6 by 7.
No really.
Um. The meaning of life is to . . . live. :)
2007-03-23 13:22:15 · answer #7 · answered by quixotic_jade 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
preparation for the next life
2007-03-23 13:21:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to be nice and contribute to the betterment of the future
2007-03-23 13:22:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love and happiness.
2007-03-23 13:21:26 · answer #10 · answered by Julian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋