what is the meaning of life?

Question

you know what it is?

the question is the answer

Answer 1

er, what!

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

The meaning of life is to live your life. The answer is the question. Simple.

Answer 4

You are asking in philosophy -- thus any answer goes. Fudge Chocolate cake?

If you had asked in religion, the answer would be to lead a righteous life obeying the social contract.

Worshiping God and giving him honor for creating us. Enjoying life with a mate, perhaps having children. Eating, drinking alcoholic as well as other types of drink, and enjoying work.

This is what the Bible teaches.

Micah 6:8 Has it not been told you, O man, what is good? Or what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, and love mercy, and be ready to walk with the Lord your God? (AB)

Ecclesiastes 2:24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God. (ACV)

Answer 5

The meaning of life is to experience it.

As every person is different and hold different values dear, a variety of meanings of life can be achieved. To some, the meaning of life is to love, to create meaningful relationships. For others, it is to understand the world and the universe. And for still others, life has no real "meaning" or "purpose" whatsoever, and life itself is therefore just an elaborate chemical phenomenon in nature.

Answer 6

Life has no meaning so just enjoy every day no matter what!

My life's meaning is in terms of making myself, my family and friends and any one who comes into contact with me happy. Not necessarily in that order of importance!

I love to see the beauty in all things as seeing the bad side makes my life such a miserable place - I'm scared of spiders but if a spider crawls onto me I pay attention to it and rejoice in how beautiful it is. I think I'm turning buddhist about this stuff...

Answer 7

Meaning of Life? Well, the answer to this question cannot come from human intelligence or reason, but only from the Creator himself who transcends our material world. As we see in today’s naturalistic society, once we remove God from the equation, we start to lose all sense of purpose for mankind. But, if God exists, we really do have a transcendent purpose, and really do have meaning for our lives. Not only do we find day-to-day significance in our lives, but an ultimate significance through our hope in eternal life. God gave us the ability to choose whether we live by His moral laws or by whatever values we assign to ourselves through our own reason. As we find, we are not mere robots placed on this earth by God. Rather, we have absolute free will to follow what He says or not. We can either recognize God as the Creator of the universe, or we can deny that He exists. We can choose to live a meaningless life or a life with absolute and eternal purpose.

Answer 8

Life is the opposite of death. Therefore, strive to stall the eventual coming od death.

Answer 9

Life and love and light.

Answer 10

42.

or rather, some fraction of 42 since this encompasses 'Life, the Universe and Everything'...

Answer 11

You're gonna have to watch Monty Python for that one.