what is the meaning of life ?

Question

What is the reason for living ? Is it just to get married, have kids, work ..and word..and just work?

Answer 1

Can you describe a rainbow without colors? So you cannot describe life without meaning either. Life is replete with meaning. Everything you do counts. Every word you speak has is effect. Every thought that enters your mind lives eternally.

Your soul is the sum product of everything you do, every word you speak, and every thought that enters your mind. There is no such thing as a wasted prayer, or a fruitless love. Therefore take heed about how you nurture your soul. Seek truth, practice love and relish everything in this world that is beautiful.

Answer 2

If we do indeed have some purpose, It seems to me that we are cells devoted to the propigation of the larger human organism currently residing on this planet. Some cells, like any other organism, play a more vital role to the overall life of the organism than do others. So as an idividual, with some abstract longing for some meaning or purpose to your existence, what kind of cell are you? Do you want to be a brain cell, to make some meaningful, lasting contribution to human life? A muscle cell, to help carry out the important day-to-day work necessary to keep us alive? Or will you resign yourself to being something akin to a skin cell, waiting for salvation to come from the oft fortold, but never seen magic lotion, only to finally die and slough off unnoticed, destined to end up another speck of human dust?

Answer 3

This life is meant to be a learning and growing experience. Before we all came to Earth, we lived with God in Heaven. However, he was so much more advanced than we were. He had so much more experience than us. He knew what true happiness was. He loved us and wanted us to become like Him. That is why he created the Earth and sent us here. Here we would encounter difficult choices. By choosing good over evil, we would progress and become more like our Father in Heaven. We would feel pain, but we would learn true joy. Having a family is an important part of being like God. This life is a test, if you will, to see if we will choose God, our Father. Doing so, we will be able to return to live with Him and to be as He is--to enjoy the eternal life that he enjoys. That is the purpose and meaning of life.

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Answer 6

This life you have been given on Earth is just a preparation for the Eternal life! It does matter where will you be after you finished living on Earth! It do matters if you have to be in hell for eternity or be with God in Heaven! So live your life how God likes it!

Answer 7

For such a question you will receive many answers; some wise, some earnest and some based on personal experience. The problem is determining which one?

My suggestion to you is that the word "life" and its evolution provides an excellent answer to your question.

The following are my words from my web site www.ucadia.com
See: http://www.ucadia.com/gen_life_definition.htm

++Origin of the word "life"++

The word "life" and its historic meanings have existed in recorded culture for at least fifteen hundred years. The actual word "life" in English can be attributed to the word "lif" used in Old English and Old Saxon meaning- life, body.

The word is linked to the emergence of a religious and social philosophy of European Celtic mythology (around 550AD) that believed human beings possessed a special "quality of life", that vanishes at the point of death. This has often been described as the "essence of life", or the "fifth essence" after fire, water, earth and wind. "Losing" this essence has therefore been historically linked to human death for at least fifteen hundred years.

Prior to this period (550AD), there does not appear to be corresponding words in either Ancient Latin or Greek. This supports the argument that the word lif was created in both a social and religious (metaphysical) context.

++Extending the meaning of life to include “soul”++

It is no surprise then, that the word "lif " was quickly associated with another philosophical belief that all humans possess a special spirit called the "soul".

Philosophers (around 1350AD) speculated that this essence is derived from the presence of the "soul", which at the point of human death leaves the body. The belief of the soul leaving the body at death precedes the concept of the essence of life by at least one thousand years (around 600BC for the first writings on the concept of Soul).

Then around 1650, Renne Descartes published a historical work that for the first time provided a scientific basis for proving that human beings are aware and self aware. It was Descartes that wrote the now famous self aware proof of existence "I think, therefore I am."

++Understanding animals also have “life”++

In the past three to four hundred years, the historical usage of the word "life" has been extended to describe a wider quality which all plants and animals on Earth possess before a the state of death. Interestingly, this broadening of the definition of life has almost a direct correlation to the advancement of science into atomic and biologic areas. Everytime science has proven that more objects in the Universe share similar qualities to humans, the philosophical defintion of life has appeared to widen around ten to twenty years after the discovery.

In the last sixty years, a further attribute to what is "life", has been assigned being the quality of awareness. Therefore, almost all modern interpretations on the meaning of life includes as part of the definition of life a state of "awareness".

++The development of the word "life" and the awakening of humanity++

That humanity fifteen hundred years ago recognized a special quality of being human and classified it as lif is the beginning of an amazing journey that has as its destination-today. That Descartes linked the unique quality of being human "life" as being definable through awareness " I think etc." is equally important.

Since the emergence of the word "life" fifteen hundred years ago, we have seen the growth of the word, to mean that all things in the Universe possess this same special essence, which we can openly define as both awareness and life meaning the same thing.

Therefore, the words life and awareness, life and awareness of matter, life and the Universe are all wholly interchangeable. By the modern "evolved" definition of life- everything in the Universe is very much alive. Only levels of unique self awareness change. Awareness as a whole never dies, only grows.

The meaning of life then is both to truly appreciate the inter-connectedness between all things and that life itself is the most precious state of being human.

That we have reached this expanded definition of life now, at the beginning of the 21st century is a profound philosophical event as significant as any recent scientific discovery or cure for a disease. The awesome importance of humanity culturally permitting the expanded definition of life (that the Universe is alive) is not yet fully comprehended by 20th Century thinking philosophers or religious leaders.

It has literally paved the way to the opening of understanding of what is awareness and Unique Collective Awareness.

Answer 8

Catholics believe the meaning of human life is to know and love God.

With love in Christ.

Answer 9

To have fun. To create music. To love. To sing. To dance. To climb mountains. To fly. To go fast. To relax. To drink wine. To stand in the rain. To ski. To swim. To surf. To snowboard. To enjoy your work. To be satisfied with your work. To hug your children. To see live music. To believe in whatever you want to believe in.

Answer 10

This is a great irony. The purpose of life is to FIND purpose IN life.