What is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

Catholics believe the meaning of human life is to know and love God.

With love in Christ.

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

The meaning of life is both profound and simple.

It answers the order of creation, the motive of existence and the mystery of the universe to ourselves.

The meaning of life is:
Awareness Loves Life (A-L-L)
See: http://ucadia.org/uca/u23/230600.htm

Unfortunately, because we are life, we see the statement as
Life Loves Awareness (L-L-A).

But if you were able to comprehend just one thought of the universe from its perspective, then you'd see that the greatest expression of existence is life- that the key to life is existence.

That living is more important than knowing everything.

For example, there is a wonderful quote from buddhism-
before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water;
after enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.

Sadly, we sometimes are mistaken in believing that if we knew everything, our lives would be better. I can assure you that is not the case. Living is what counts.

All the very best.

Answer 4

Honsesly it differs from person to person. For me the true meaning of life is finding peace within myself and accepting life for what ever it may be.

Answer 5

42

Answer 6

42

Answer 7

Everybody is on this earth for a reason...i just so happen to think that the meaning of life is to reproduce...or in your case it could be to sort out political meaning, it depends on who you are....but mostly the meaning of life is to reproduce!

Answer 8

Your question is subjective. Life means different things to different people. There is no one, single answer. There are as many definitions as there are people.

Answer 9

Well, I should probably say 42, but that would be cliche'd huh??

The meaning of life is to gain knowledge.

Answer 10

the meaning of life is :
to be with the one you love, if you can't do that then love the one your with, but above all be happy