What do you think is the TRUE meaning of life ?

Question

Hey,

What do we accomplish in life that's so important ? We are
born, we learn, we reproduce, we work, we retire and finally we die?


Obviously we have fun in life but why are we put on this planet ? What are we supposed to do to ?

And what happens when we die ? Do we go in another dimension, live another life in another universe and continue that way forever?

Jesus... I've got many questions and I'm sure I'm not the only one with all these questions...

What are we supposed to do as humans?

I find that we follow from our ancestors steps and continue improving our society, But is this good ? We are basically followers and live on from what they made.....The mistakes they made will affect us and the next generation and so on....

Obviously I'm not expecting any true, accurate answers here, but I want opinions from my fellow brothers and sisters.....


Regards

Jordan JP




PS We are all related in someway....

Answer 1

Your life is your's to make. Any meaning your life has is defined by yourself. You chose what you want your life to stand for. You chose your ethics, you chose your morals, you chose your philosophy. And you aren't locked into one 'meaning'. If your values change, you are free to move on and make something else the 'true meaning' of your life. God gave us all a blank slate on which we can compose our individual life story. The answer to your question is unique to each person. Your life is whatever you make of it with the resources available to you. On that note; why not make it something fun?

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

I guess I see it as this...
We all started somewhere, I mean historically talking not the whole sperm+egg = Baby. And those people whom ever and whatever species they might have been, cause I can't remember, had instincts. I'm hungry I want food. thus they worked. I'm cold, thus they made shelters. etc, etc. People have built in motives that tell us what to do whether it is inherited or God put it there, I don't know and simply don't care. I want food I go get it, I need money for that so I work. you get the point I'm sure. So my point is that we are based on needs. Housing got better because in winter we were still cold, or in summer we were hot in the houses we had built for the winter. So did everything else around us. I am a strong believer in Evolution, atleast to a point. Not sure about the whole man from ape or is it fish? Anyway I believe that We are designed for this and that is why we do it, that we are doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing. And when we die, our bodies perish and we can only hope to be remembered by the people in our lives who held us most dear to them. If there is a heaven, I hope I get in, but I'm not counting on an after life I plan on living with what I can get. Of course the Secret of life,is far easier, to make your time alive both as enjoyable and productive as you can, and by that I mean Have fun in life but not to the ends of causing harm to others and not to the point that you starve because you aren't willing to work for yourself.

But hey maybe that's just me.

Answer 4

Life does not have a meaning so much as a nature, which is to collect energy, reproduce and avoid being eaten. In human terms this means you need to get a job, find a mate, and protect your family.
The afterlife is purely speculative. Possible I suppose but unlikely. If you want to be remembered, be magnificent. Do the right thing by your family, friends, country, and planet.

Answer 5

Proverbs 2:20-22 the point is which you will walk interior the way of stable people and that the trails of the righteous ones you may save. For the upright are those which will stay interior the earth,and the harmless are those which would be left over in it. As regards the depraved, they are going to be shrink off from the very earth;and as for the treacherous, they are going to be torn faraway from it. Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14 13?the top of the undertaking, each and every little thing having been heard, is: concern the genuine God and save his commandments, for it is the finished criminal accountability of guy. 14?For the genuine God will decide each and every deed, alongside with each and every hidden ingredient, to no remember if it is stable or undesirable.

Answer 6

Life is definitely not just that.

(In my opinion and understandings only....)

Life is a lesson. To learn what we haven't learnt. Learning about love, letting go, non-permanance.... Our experiences are possible because we have a body. Every lifetime is yet another opportunity to have your soul polished. Lives after lives. Our soul (28 grams?) leaves our body when we die, and we may live again in this or another dimension, or have some kind of live in between our next reincarnation.

I think I am here to seek answers too. What would be the best is to get out of Samsara, to achieve Nirvana... out of Cycle and cycles of life...

I have this feeling that if I still don't get it, I will have to repeat another life again.

Answer 7

If there were a "true" meaning of life, that were possible for us to know, I believe we'd all know it with the certainty that we know 1+1=2.

I think that the kind of meaning you're looking for is a category that doesn't actually apply to life... we are misled if we think we are going to find "reasons" for being, or for having the nature we have. The best I can approximate what I believe is, our conscious experience is like the universe looking at itself in the mirror (and I'm paraphrasing someone here, but I don't recall who). What we are supposed to do, is be exactly what we are. When we die, our individual points of view cease to exist -- there are a number of ways to interpret what the "experience" afterwards might "be like."

If you need a "point" of struggling for good, just get down in your subject a little more and imagine what your own existence could be like if no one had ever struggled for human progress. We owe it to ourselves - caring is part of our nature; that is just how we are meant to be.

Everyone who asks your questions has to find the answers for him/herself. Good luck and remember, trust only your own direct experience.

Answer 8

True meaning of life is a tough one to answer because i honestly believe life means something different to everyone. If we spend time worrying about what our destiny is or what we're supposed to accomplish, aren't we just wasting the time we should be using to live life?

Answer 9

Nothing. There is no meaning of life. At least not a fixed one. I think it more or less varies from person to person. For one person, it may be "roof" because they build houses and they feel really close to what they do, or maybe for another person, it may be "speech" because they talk to people and communicate things. To some people it may even be "42" because of the H2G2 series (it's on my nick but no, it's not the meaning of life to me).
Some peole may go their whole lives trying to figure out the meaning of life, and that may be the meaning of life to them: to search for it. But there is no fixed meaning. Each person has their own meaning of their own life.

Answer 10

42
it depends on what you mean by life. I suspect evolution is likely to be close to correct. So the purpose of our having a life is to create offspring, and more important to give our offspring any advantage to succeed better than other's offspring.
but I don't think intelligence is not conducive to that. It gives us the opportunity to fabricate and consider possibilities. this distracts us. now if that self awareness is a soul given by God, then I wish he'd given us clearer instructions. If it's a freak of chance then i would suggest ignoring it as much as possible and focus on giving your kids advantages.
BTW, 42 is the number of pips on 2 dice. so probability is I what i think controls our lives