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

if you're looking for an ontological definite answer to this one, there aren't any. there are only theories of what "the meaning of life is." keep looking until one resonates with you intellectually or emotionally if you want a reason.

look at a bird, an animal, a monkey, and ask yourself, "why is it here?" then try looking at other people from a distance from an alien-like perspective (weed-smoking in the park helps) and ask yourself why. if they look like animals to you, living autonomous of your immediate influence... then maybe you'd figure out something.

other than that, if there was a reason to live, it's probably outside our ability to be "100% absolutely sure" whether it's the right one anyway... so don't worry about it. you don't need a DEFINITION of life, which only serves to put your field of thinking into intellectual blinders.

you just live. or if you're really dying for an answer, try this one: do what you like.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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 6

The object of life is to join the army.

Live and let die = <3

Answer 7

Why do people keep asking this question - it easy. You learn to pee, etc. Then crawl, then walk, then talk, then become a bloody nuisance, then a spotty teenager and eventually you grow up and keep learning and progressing or settle for being a moron! Simple really - you live to learn - and you stop when you die!

Answer 8

A chance to liive Woopwoop

Answer 9

The mean-ing of life is where lifeforms become mean and unapproachable.

Answer 10

i agree with peter d

but i think we are here also to help others to volunteer our tome for the needy for the animal shelters for the hospices etc

we are here to basically help others and to serve God so that we may one day make it to heaven to be there with him

we have to prove our selves here first though

just think death is eternal and for ever are you ready if you were to die today for it ?

what would you wish that you had said or done before you died ?