Where is the meaning in life?

Answer 1

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 2

If you go by the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42.

A lot of people believe the meaning of life can be learned through religion. Of course we all know that's BS.

I, on the other hand, argue that the meaning of life is Yahoo! Answers.

Otherwise, there is no meaning of life. Over 99% of the species that have once lived on the Earth are now extinct. The only thing that differentiates humans from these other species is our intelligence. Our brains are designed to learn and use logic, rather than base our actions on instinct, like the majority of the animal kingdom.

Humans will most likely outlive other species though because of our ability to think and create new technology. It's survival of the fittest, and humans, like crab grass and cockroaches, are well adapted to the environment we live in. Even a pandemic or large-scale natural disaster probably would not be enough to wipe out every human, so chances are we're going to be here a while. The problem is we'll never know why.

Answer 3

There is a sort of transcendental meaning in life that may not be up to us to fetch nor to grasp. Not yet. Maybe never in all our imaginable evolving Earthly states. Then the meaning may confidently be seen in the relentless seeking thru the virtue of hope, corroborated by the glowing virtue of hope.

A glowing dazzling search for the meaning in life, and a sense of evolution, and a teleological and ever changing intuition. Many meanings thronging and competing, challenges, fiercy fights, in order for the fittest of meanings to prevail.

The holiest of meanings may be in the contrivance of a God in one's own image who created His favorite people in His own image so that they might populate the world and so celebrate and adore Him ever more, and for the outsiders humbly seeking merciful adoption with the favorite people and so yielding the Promised Lands unto them.

The meaning in life may be as much as all this, not lastly for Here, but for There out there in yonder Paradize in the glowing dazzling nearness of Almighty God and of all His Angels and of all the Saintly Leaders that were declared so during and after their holy life here on this Earth.

The meaning in life may be as much as all this, and even more, ever more, in and above and beyond and so also yonder al the imaginable and the unimaginable and the ever more glowing dazzling than all that.

Answer 4

The meaning of life is in you. Everything within you, about you, as far as the eye of your mind can see. Every thing outside of you, the physical manifistations before, beneath, and around you. In everything that IS and IS NOT. meditate (contemplate) on that. We live in a universe bound by a law known as relativity-the law of opposites. Who, what, when, why and Where are you? As soon as you declare to be anything every thing unlike it will follow ("Conversations with God: an uncomon dialouge") as an opportunity to prove to your self that what you are claiming to be is what you are. (I would also recomend the guide book (same title, plus Guidebook).

Answer 5

Where you find it, its all about you and what you think and feel and it is also about what gives value to the world. If you are adding value to your life and others you'll find joy and besides breathing in and out thats what lifes about....think I should have been a poet.Life IS what you make it. Many blessings have a good day and a better tomorrow.

Answer 6

there is none except gods plan .if your a happy person dont worry about the meaning of life.

Answer 7

The only authorized instruction manual on humans I know about is the Bible.

Answer 8

Right here:

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/life

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Answer 9

It would be great for you to start reading the Bible...and attend a Bible based church. I am serious. It will tell you why we are here...to spread the word about Jesus...

Answer 10

On Earth.