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2007-04-26 10:25:24 · 12 answers · asked by chris m 1 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

12 answers

Smart alec answer: Life:
1. the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
2. the sum of the distinguishing phenomena of organisms, esp. metabolism, growth, reproduction, and adaptation to environment.
3. the animate existence or period of animate existence of an individual: to risk one's life; a short life and a merry one.
4. a corresponding state, existence, or principle of existence conceived of as belonging to the soul: eternal life....

Meaning behind the word:
Life's meaning is to make it meaningful to yourself as well as the people that you associate in any point in time. Life always has a meaning whether you see it or not atm.

2007-04-26 10:31:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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.....

2007-04-26 19:34:41 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0 0

Life is living to the best of your ability, live a happy christian life until the Lord is ready to take it back, then when he returns the second time you will go to heaven.

2007-04-26 17:31:24 · answer #3 · answered by Destiny 4 · 0 0

That's for each of us to figure out because there is no one general meaning. It varies from person to person.

2007-04-26 17:57:31 · answer #4 · answered by retrodragonfly 7 · 0 0

To live life to its fullest

2007-04-26 17:34:52 · answer #5 · answered by Tyler M 1 · 0 0

Living it.

2007-04-26 18:04:16 · answer #6 · answered by Izen G 5 · 0 0

God created us and gave us life simply to glorify Him.

2007-04-26 18:02:47 · answer #7 · answered by awr226 2 · 0 0

It has no meaning..... it only has the meaning that you give it.

2007-04-26 17:41:38 · answer #8 · answered by **** 2 · 0 0

the meaning of life is having a good time not rele caring what people think and being happy with wat u got

2007-04-26 17:34:12 · answer #9 · answered by Logan 1 · 0 0

making it a real worth journey, not regeting nothing!

2007-04-26 17:38:21 · answer #10 · answered by Matthew 4 · 0 0

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