What is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

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

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/prologue.htm

With love in Christ.

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

This is the fourth time I have since this question within the past week and no this is not the answer to your question. Are people running out of things to ask. I seem to be repeating myself. Ok I will answer this once more.

The Talmud teaches:
Just before a baby is born,
an angel shows it everything there is to know
and learn
on Earth.
Then at the moment of birth,
the angel touches the infant’s upper lip,
and the child forgets everything.
We spend the rest of our lives
remembering
what the angel showed us.
This is a generic guide
to the meaning of life.
It does not describe one view
of the meaning of life
and recommend you adopt it.
It helps you remember
what the angel showed you.
The angel showed you
the meaning of life.
In case you have not remembered yet,
here is what the angel showed you.

Just exactly as if you are landing a spaceship
from another galaxy,
your soul enters your body
and lands here on Earth.
Perhaps you come from out of nowhere,
out of nothingness.
Or else you had a previous existence somewhere,
in another realm
or in this realm,
and you have forgotten it.
Perhaps you land here
of your own free choice.
Or some cosmic force
some karma
beyond you
causes you to land on this planet;
and you have no choice.
No matter.
This is Earth.
You land
and stay for a while.

You come here to do certain
specific
things.
You may have one task
or many.
Your tasks may be obvious to you.
or you may need time,
effort,
maybe struggle
even to clarify
your tasks.
You may never quite even clarify your task
until the moment
your time in this body
ends.
You may work on your task for years
before you realize,
“This is my task.”
The tasks you came to perform
may take the whole of your life
or be done in an instant.
You may be aware
you are performing your life task
while you do it.
You may perform your task quickly,
hardly noticing
anything special,
unaware
you are doing the task
you came to do
while you do it.
Your task may be so easy,
obvious and
natural,
you never even wonder,
"What is my task?"
Your unique blend
of talents and interests
may lead you
to your task
and you just do it.
Or, your task may be a constant,
unpleasant
struggle
you fight
every step of the way.
Your task may be noble and wonderful
and gain you
recognition,
rewards
and honors.
Or, it may be simple,
totally unnoticeable
by anyone else.

You will be born
with a powerful
innate desire
to remain alive.
You will do almost anything
to continue living.
At some point
you may discover
some limits,
and allow your life
to end.

Answer 4

The meaning of life is a fundamental philosophical discussion of human existence, chiefly consisting of interpretations such as: These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and arguments, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations.

Common answers include: happiness or flourishing; love; compassion; pleasure; reproduction; power; 42; knowledge, understanding, or wisdom; and being blessed, or achieving union with God or the divine; or simply that there is no meaning to life. ...

Answer 5

Since I developed multiple sclerosis 4 years ago after a very sporty life, I've realised it just does not matter if the cat or dog jumps up on the sofa.

Answer 6

A pen's life has a meaning, ours has none. The meaning is to be found by living ;-)

Answer 7

The meaning of life is the procreation of the species just like any other animal or living thing....

Answer 8

to live and die, basically...it is said that each person no matter what makes an impact on this world even after their gone...thats true for many people but not for some. but it doesn't really matter if you make an impact on this world as it appears we all going to die anyway...the world is going to die...the earth is going to die...matter of fact it is dying...so no matter what impact we make soon it wont mean a thing unless we can fix what we have done..or move somewhere else and do the same thing...we are a destructive race

Answer 9

the meaning of life is to carry on the circle of life, produce your children, raise them and make them the best possible people of the future that you can! and then spend the rest of your own life paying half your frikkin wages to the inland revenue grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Answer 10

There is no meaning to life, it is a situation that all living thing are unwittingly forced into. life is a paracite to the atomic universe

Answer 11

Just like reading this question once every 3 days life is utterly pointless.