Meaning of life?

Question

its one of those questions

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

There are a number of different types of answers to your question.
1) There is no meaning. We humans need meaning because otherwise we'll start thinking about suicide. Therefore those who say there is no meaning, I think, actually have invented something for themselves to get through the day.

2) You have to find or invent your own meaning. We humans yearn for our lives to have real meaning, not just something we made up to feed our own egos. We have to deceive ourselves to believe that something we invented for our own good feelings is important enough that we can dedicate our lives to it.

3) Our meaning is found in God our Creator. This is the only answer that makes sense and isn't self deceptive.

Answer 3

To reproduce.
You wanna think there's something more, don't you.
But see, you have your body, and that's real. You have your brain that controls that body and tells each part what to do and how to move. Everything else is simply fake or nonexistent. Like language. And throught language we get really philosophical, philosophy also most of the time talks about stuff that's not real.

Answer 4

Who just said "mankind has not found out the meaning of life as yet..."

Oh, come on! Life is for Living. Its not difficult to understand or is it?

Answer 5

Check out the earlier answers given to the hundreds of people who have already posted this question.

Answer 6

The meaning of life is not in the life itself, but in the othe life in the other world, after you die.

Answer 7

Mankind has not found out the meaning just yet, maybe in another 2000 years.

Answer 8

To me to live life to the full, see everything, do everything. Life is a presious thing and a short thing so it should be loved and to have fun while it lasts.

Answer 9

Breathe the wind and Drink the rain! (title of a good book i received as a gift from a special someone!)

breathe the wind, drink the rain, enjoy life, BE HAPPY!

Answer 10

I think it was Tolstoy that said,"The only absolute truth is that life is meaningless."I don't think we should look at it negatively
Yes,we have no inherrant meaning,and like Sartre says,"There is no ground to sow",but we can create our own meaning.The whole existential viewpoint of,in laymens terms, living for the hell of it.Or to be cliche and quote Nietzsche,"Remember the seriousness you had when you were a child at play."I think that's the quote.