What is the meaning of 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

At a time like this, which exists maybe only for me, but is nonetheless real, if I can communicate, and in the telling and the bearing of my soul anything is gained, even though the words which I use are pretentious and make you cringe with embarrassment, let me remind you of the pilgrim who asked for an audience with the Dalai Lama.
He was told he must first spend five years in contemplation. After the five years, he was ushered into the Dalai Lama's presence, who said, 'Well, my son, what do you wish to know?' So the pilgrim said, 'I wish to know the meaning of life, father.'
And the Dalai Lama smiled and said, 'Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?'

Answer 3

The idea is to live your life in a way that will make a difference in others lives. If you are missed when you are gone, your life meant something when you were here.

Answer 4

Clearly the meaning is to live long enough to reproduce (i.e The meaning of life is to create more life like that from which it comes). It is really that simple.

Answer 5

I will tell you this is the plane of existence where you choose to be good or evil. It is the sum of your choices that will determine what is in your heart. Like a sketch book you can be serious or fun or just tear the pages. In the end if your good you go to the next plane of existence. If not you will be back to start over.

Answer 6

Life is what god gave you so you can accomplish something for him. You only have one life to live so instead of asking questions like this enjoy yours.

Answer 7

life is black and white. living is all about the balance.. between good-evil night-day happiness-unhappiness.
everything in life has its opposite. our goal, in addition to following our religion (be we muslim christian jewish, etc.); we should strive to find the perfect balance between each two factors. this is exactly wat sources mean by 'the mission in life'.
i hope ive helped u!! :)

Answer 8

Well. Lets just say-

We'll never know.

Well we may but it is different to everybody.

To me - It's being free. Its about my education. My job.

Answer 9

enjoy life, have fun and obey God

Answer 10

happiness