What is the meaning of this life?

Question

I wonder can this question be answered. i am not so sure. Life I suppose means many different thing to different people. But what is the real meaning behind it all that is what I am after. Some would say we came about by pure chance but I can not accept that as how can something be created out of nothing. They also theorize on the big bang but I think it is nonsense to as that would suggest a beginning from zero. So theyre actualy trying to suggest that there was a huge void of nothingness for an infinite period and then this nothingness miraculously transformed to hydrogen etc and the whole thing went from there. This can not be as to me it is putting a very simplified slant on the initial spark. I would be very interested in your ideas!

Answer 1

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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

Yes we are here for a very real purpose. That is to Praise the Lord God for his pleasure. The bible says that if we [humans] don't praise the lord then the rocks and the hills will cry out praise to the Lord God. WE are on earth and not the garden of
Eden because of sin. God put them out so that sin would die and when we went back to heaven we would be there forever and he[God] would create a New heavens and earth and there would be no more sin[that is death]. Nothing but the true worshipers of God will get to be there as a reward for their worship and belief while in the old earth before his return.

Answer 4

Too bad for you, but physicists don't rely on what you can and cannot accept. Oh and the meaning of life is that there is no meaning. We are all to give our lives our personal and subjective purposes and go about our ways till this crazy roller coaster we call "Life" comes abruptly to a halt.

Don't feel bad though, it's not your fault your reason (fine tuned through evolution) is built to assume a cause or reason for everything.



P.S. Is it just me or are the 42 answers being overdone? Hmm.

Answer 5

There is no universal definition of life; there are a variety of definitions proposed by different scientists.To define life in unequivocal terms is still a challenge for scientists.

Conventional definition: Often scientists say that life is a characteristic of organisms that exhibit the following phenomena:

Homeostasis: Regulation of the internal environment to maintain a constant state; for example, sweating to reduce temperature.
Organization: Being composed of one or more cells, which are the basic units of life.
Metabolism: Consumption of energy by converting nonliving material into cellular components (anabolism) and decomposing organic matter (catabolism). Living things require energy to maintain internal organization (homeostasis) and to produce the other phenomena associated with life.
Growth: Maintenance of a higher rate of synthesis than catalysis. A growing organism increases in size in all of its parts, rather than simply accumulating matter. The particular species begins to multiply and expand as the evolution continues to flourish.
Adaptation: The ability to change over a period of time in response to the environment. This ability is fundamental to the process of evolution and is determined by the organism's heredity as well as the composition of metabolized substances, and external factors present.
Response to stimuli: A response can take many forms, from the contraction of a unicellular organism when touched to complex reactions involving all the senses of higher animals. A response is often expressed by motion, for example, the leaves of a plant turning toward the sun or an animal chasing its prey.
Reproduction: The ability to produce new organisms. Reproduction can be the division of one cell to form two new cells. Usually the term is applied to the production of a new individual (either asexually, from a single parent organism, or sexually, from at least two differing parent organisms), although strictly speaking it also describes the production of new cells in the process of growth.

Answer 6

Questions about how this cosmos came to be, and questions about whether life has meaning, are two different things.

Oh, they can come together. Your metaphysics could (as do many people's) feature a supreme deity who created this universe for human companionship--or for amusement--or for reasons incomprehensible (in which case, it's kind of silly to wonder about them--"never mind their questions there's no answer for" as Joni Mitchell wrote).

What is the meaning of life? According to the existentialists, there is no absolute meaning. Faced with the existential void, we create meanings for ourselves. Thus, humans are seen as the motivating creative force in their own universes.

Or, to use plain English: life is what you make it.

Answer 7

The meaning of life is to make life more miserable to pay back the conformists.

Answer 8

We are the Universe made manifest. Our purpose is to learn and understand ourselves, where we come from, and where we're going.

Answer 9

It is something you can search for yourself in your path and with your methods... Meaning is a subjective word, you know.

Answer 10

Meaning of life for me :

Balance

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