What is the meaning of life?

Question

i am Super Cerial. what is the meaning of life.

Answer 1

42

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

A cuban cigar, a very dry vodka martini with two cherries and two 25 year old hunks - one to hold my ashtray and one to refresh my martini. Pax - C

PS - For those of you who have actually read Hitchhiker's Guide, you would know that 42 is not the answer to the meaning of life - By the time they got the answer 42, they had long since forgotten the question.

Answer 4

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 5

42. But you'd have to wait at least 7 million years to find out what the actual question was.

Answer 6

To simply be, to live and breathe as intended until we leave our vehicles (bodies, that is). We are providing the planet with many sources to preserve it as well as destroy it (depending on mother nature's true plan) as the planet does for us.

Answer 7

We come to borrow some time that sees a picture of sorrow or happiness, depending on what we choose.

Answer 8

its a tingling sensation on the groin that is stimulated by small amounts of alcohol.
what follows is an overweight barmaid and bits of grease and friction.
then loads of child support.
life.

Answer 9

"Can you feel it Mr. Anderson? Closing in on you? Oh I can, I really should thank you after all. It was, after all, it was your life that taught me the purpose of all life. The purpose of life is to end."

Answer 10

42!