What is the meaning of life?

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

How about "What does life mean to you?" Your question seems to ask for an absolute. Meaning as dictated by someone/something? Or, a definitive concept from someone who believes in a specific meaning, purpose? The first would be unacceptable to me, & the second would be immutable. "Meaning" (with all the synonyms) basically refers to "agreed upon IDEAS or things..."
I'd prefer "significant" (to ME) but that doesn't quite do it either. I wonder--first--how "meaning" could apply, as, aren't we constantly evolving/revolving & never, never fixed?
This question has been asked so many, many times. Perhaps if the asker could be more specific--it would be possible to answer even in the most abstract way???

Answer 4

To ask about the meaning of life...

Answer 5

There is no meaning. Meaning is something that the ego pursue's, in order to keep it's self alive in the dream of manifestation. The self is having this dream to enjoy the up's and down's of experience. If there were no down's, what would an up feel like?

Answer 6

Life is the fulfillment of the desire of separation from the universal spirit to experience the manifested world, and compare it with the memory of the state of supreme bliss of being the omnipotent, when we were not separated as a soul with the envelop of the ego (I AM -NESS)

Answer 7

Life just is. It has no intrinsic, or built in meaning of it's own.

All the meaning that life will ever have is the meaning that you give to it.

Looks like its up to you.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 8

Its not anything else ,
It is the great love about the man kind which means the caring each other without any expectation from the person that you are caring about.

Answer 9

why does life have to have a meaning? i feel that people seek the meaning of life in order to compensate for their mortality and the briefness of their lives. the meaning of life is what you decide to make of it.

Answer 10

Life is one state of being as we evolve to the next state of being where we are one with and reunited with God, our Father. Our purpose in life is to obey God, and to bring souls to him by our witness and example.