what is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

the meaning of life is to spend each of your days toiling for His work and His life, so help you God. He is all you need in this sacred life and His love, not by any other's, is all the love you need to carry on with thou duties...

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

It cannot be generalized. What is full aliveness to you? What is meaningful to you? Remembering it is the task. Why did you come here? For most, it is so pushed down into the unconscious, they cannot recall and spend life bouncing around like a pinball. The phrase, "The only Law is: You MUST give up what you do not want, and keep what you do. Herein lies peace," may be the only way forward because it requires a constant state of discernment.

Answer 4

To say there is no meaning is to say that all suffering is worthless.

Viktor Frankl was a psychiatrist who survived auschwitz, said that man's ultimate purpose is to search for a meaning. When it's not found he called this state "existencial vacuum." -a source of depression, drug abuse, and anxiety.

He first saw this among his fellow prisoners who lost a meaning to their suffering. They stayed in bed in the morning, with a defiant stare, and no ammount of threats or beatings could make them get up to face another day. They didn't even bother to commit suicide by "running in the fence".

Each person has to find the meaning of his life himself according to his individual challenges and problems, by asking "not what life can give me, but what can I give to life".

Answer 5

Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.

--Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life"

Answer 6

I believe I can answer your question by changing the word "meaning" to the word "purpose." God made us for His purpose. He made us to worship and love Him as He loves us. The purpose of our life on this earth is to proclaim the good news of Jesus to others in order that we can all live together eternally with Him.

Answer 7

Isaiah 48:17, This is what Jehovah has said, your Repurchaser, the Holy One of Israel: “I, Jehovah, am your God, the One teaching you to benefit [yourself], the One causing you to tread in the way in which you should walk. (John 3:16) “For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.
Psalms 37:29, The righteous themselves will possess the earth,And they will reside forever upon it. Psalms 37:37 Watch the blameless one and keep the upright one in sight,
For the future of [that] man will be peaceful.

Answer 8

Ecc 12:13 ¶ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Reverence Yahweh, by keeping His Laws: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man.


Ecc 12:14 For Yahweh shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether [it be] righteous, or whether [it be] evil.

Answer 9

To know,love and serve God in this life so that we may be happy with Him forever,life is only a short blip between two eternities.

Answer 10

our purpose in life is to be tested to see if we will follow god's ways or the ole 666er's ways. The meaning of life is whatever you want to make of it!