what is the meaning of life?

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Answer 1

EVERYTHING

Answer 2

This question is asked by everyone at one point in their life, there is always in the human heart a thirst for purpose. The answers do depend on what you formulate and how you view life in general. If you view life as a matter of chance, that life was originated by chance through a series of events and that human beings are merely evolved monkeys, then the meaning of life is not much. Life is cheap and the fittest survive. There is no purpose except to live and die. Because anything you do in between doesn't matter. Hence, the need for "being good" and being moral or doing good unto others, is basically useless. Why bother being good if you believe you just live and die? I say live it up, do whatever you want because tomorrow you die.

If on the other hand, you view life as a having a purpose beyond material gain, pleasure and evolution. If in your heart you truly believe that there must be more, than you will seek to find a higher purpose and look to a better answer as to why you are here. Many seek religion, much religion does not satisfy because we are beings that want relationships. Others seek satisfaction in doing good, (see Oprah) but that also becomes dissatisfying after a time because it only fills for a moment, then you must do the next thing.

Others seek a relationship with their Creator, a study of different religions will show you that most are an attempt of "doing or being good' in order to satisfy the requirements of the gods of their religion.

If you are dissatisfied with those paths of religion Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, etc., then you can investigate the claims of the bible and Christianity. This one offers a direct relationship with the creator, eternal life without penalty, because Jesus paid the penalty for the sin or imperfection of mankind. It has been around since Judaism and Jesus being the fulfilment of the Messiah or Liberator they awaited. Of course, you would have to admit you are not a "good person" because out of the heart of mankind come evil and wicked thoughts. And that without the free gift of Jesus you will not live eternally in heaven. Of course they do believe everyone lives eternally, some in the house of Jesus the others in hell.

Life is indeed what you make of it. Choose wisely...

Answer 3

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 4

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (published in 1979), the characters visit the legendary planet Magrathea, home to the now-collapsed planet building industry, and meet Slartibartfast, a planetary coastline designer who was responsible for the fjords of Norway. Through archival recordings, he relates the story of a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who built a computer named Deep Thought to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. When the answer was revealed as 42, they were forced to build a more powerful computer to work out what the Ultimate Question actually was, but their plans never come to fruition. (Later on, referencing this, Adams would create a puzzle which could be approached in multiple ways, all yielding the answer 42.)

The computer, often mistaken for a planet (because of its size and use of biological components), was the Earth, and was destroyed by Vogons five minutes before the conclusion of its 10-million-year program. Two of the race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings, who turn out to be Trillian's mice, want to dissect Arthur's brain to help reconstruct the question, since he is the last remaining survivor from Earth at the moment when it was destroyed. Trillian is also human but had left Earth six months previously with Zaphod Beeblebrox. Our protagonists escape, setting course for "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". The mice, in Arthur's absence, create a phony question since it is too troublesome for them to wait 10 million years again just to cash in on a lucrative deal. Their new question was "How many roads must a man walk down?"

Answer 5

I love this question because it gives rise to the deep and thoughtful ways within humans. By asking this question and answering it, you find that there must be a meaning because you wouldn't ask or answer otherwise.

Why do you want to know? What will you do with the answer? These are the real questions that need to be asked. Surely you must have a pre-determined answer of your own.

Does religion have the answer? Do you have the answer within your soul? Is the answer written in the laws of nature? Where is the answer? Where can you find it? Why do humans always come back to this square?

Do you want my opinion? Do you want the truth? How can you trust me? Will you ever find the peace you are looking for?

What is the meaning of life?
Well life is the opposite of death. Do you need more? Or have I given you the key?

Answer 6

Here is how i tried to define the purpose of life...but yet i know there is lot missing...

If you believe in Mighty God and/or afterlife and/or reincarnation and/or Karma and/or Hell & Heaven etc of spiritual state life is about being "good", about helping other, following the path God showed us, standing out as noble person because you will finally be rewarded during or afterlife through different ways ex. Karma, hell & heaven.

If you do not believe in what you don't see and/ or you do not believe there is Mighty God, afterlife, hell & heaven etc. it is absurd to find meaning of life coz there is no meaning in life. We basically come down to Earth, grow, and die. It doesn't matter what we did in our life, whether we were "good" or "bad" because when you are dead, you are dead and there is nothing more to it. We will be gone and people will still be there, life cycle goes on even after we are gone, nothing really changed coz one 'me' dies. Yes, People(relative, family, and friends) might miss us for a while but with time those memories will fade...sooner or later they will forget about u and they will move on with their life as if nothing really happened. If you were an extremist (really "good" or "bad") you might get chance to be captured in history but would it matter to u? You aren't even there. It's just that you will be overloading future history students with ur biography. So, does it make a difference that you live "good" or "bad" life? Nope, unless it affects you while you are living. If u are physically, mentally, and emotionally affected by ur "good" and "bad" deeds then only it matter what you are: "good" or "bad". But the question arises, what if there is more to it? what if Mighty God exists? what if we will be judged as "good" or "bad" afterlife? do you want to take chance?

Answer 7

I think that is different for each individual person. I think we are all born to fulfil some specific task, either small, or large, which then fits everyone's purpose together like a huge jigsaw. I am just waiting to see what the end result of all the pieces are.

Answer 8

Each person determines that for themselves. The absence of a meaning for their lives cause some to commit suicide. Some people believe it is to live a life pleasing to a higher power, some focus on accumulating wealth or power, some for knowledge, and some to love and be loved. What meaning have you given to your life?

Answer 9

In the case of prisoners these days about five years in a proto-holiday camp with all mod-cons, satellite television and all the comforts of home. Followed by early release, a book deal, a pardon, a zillion in compensation and retirement to somewhere warm and sunny.

Answer 10

The procreation of the species,just take a look at every other living organism on the planet,
This must have been the 1,000 time I have seen this question on this site,but still worth the 2 points.

Answer 11

The meaning of life is only revealed after consuming the heart attack sandwich, the recipe for which is as follows : -

One slice of bread thickly buttered
One layer of thickly sliced spam
One more layer of bread thickly buttered
One layer of greasy fried bacon
One more layer of bread thickly buttered
One layer of salami [Italian]
One final slice of thickly buttered bread

Yum!

If you are still alive after eating the above, you deserve to know the meaning of life.

The true meaning of life is that we are born, we live and then we die and no one ever knows we've been here. That is, unless we are chosen by the Gods to be great.

We are in effect as important as leaf litter on the floor of a forest. Our only function being to maneur the Earth.