what's the point of life?

Answer 1

None, but does it matter?

You're here now, and it doesn't last forever.

Have fun while you can. The afterlife -if there is one- comes later.

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

Living?

Answer 4

A tail.
Imagine a dog chasing its tail.
When it catches its tail, it becomes fully connected with itself, and is satisfied.
A [smart] dog with a smaller tail will never chase its tail because it understands the impossibility of catching it , and will seek satisfaction elsewhere.
So the point of life is understanding our limits and being satisfied within those limits.
Or grow a longer tale.

Answer 5

The point of life is what you make out of it. Your life is in your hands. Since only you can make something out of it, the answer to your question lies within you. Search your soul and you'll find your answer.

Answer 6

In my opinion, the point of life, is to be you!

Answer 7

There is no point in life.
Just wait to die.
Do something between the time you are born to the time you're dead.

Answer 8

To take each day you are given and savor it to its fullest potential.

Answer 9

don't read that. i read it yesterday, it sucks. the meaning of life doesn't take a book. i'll tell what it is: whatever you make it.

Answer 10

love