What is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

Life – it has a meaning and loving purpose - you just have to find your purpose and live it.

I believe every person is here for a definite purpose. Each person is special and valuable; that refers to me, you, your family, friends, in fact everybody! There is a loving plan for each of our lives here on earth and there is no such thing as coincidence. I don't believe that anything in life happens by chance and that every aspect of our lives points to something deeper.

You need to decide now to live for God rather than for yourself. You spend your life on Earth preparing yourself (as best you can) for death. I don't see death as a scary, negative experience, but birth into a bliss filled eternal life with God. I believe that this is something you have to consciously choose or not during your life on earth.

The meaning of life is for us to discover that we are true children of an infinitely loving God, to find out what our responsibilities are to our Creator, and to fulfill those responsibilities. Each of us is called to affirm, accept and develop the talents God has given us. -

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

Entropy. Life exsts because it speeds up the process by which hot things transfer their energy too cooler things until everything is at the same temperature. See simple. Now its time for another 40 years squatting up a pole. Yippee

Answer 4

The question can be considered illogical and therefore its not that there is no answer for it but more that there is in fact no question to answer. Akin to asking how happy is a pebble. Simply because we can frame a question and it is grammatically correct does not in any way imply that there needs to be an answer. Indeed, many of these 'important questions' are just more examples of the same.

Answer 5

A very funny Monty Python film or 42

Answer 6

Ask Brian from Monty Python!

Answer 7

Watch some Monty Python movies to get the answer.

Answer 8

I think we should ban this question as it has been asked so many times. The administrator should place a link to the older questions whenever someone tries to ask it again.

Answer 9

It's a very funny movie by Monty Python. Watch it and all will be made clear.

Answer 10

It has no fundamental meaning except for the meaning you wish to give it.