What is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

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 2

Ironicaly, you will only know after you die. Then again, there are those that believe once you die, that's all there is. So, maybe you'll never know. Will the world go on without you? Yes. Maybe you will be born again. Your soul will travel through space, only to return someday, or maybe even at the instance of death, your soul will occupy another body that is being born. Only to live again, to learn again, start all over. Are there an infinate amount of souls in the guff? Do we even have souls? If there is a meaning to life, then why hasn't someone figured it out yet. Maybe there is no meaning to it at all. I mean with literally billions of lives come and gone and no one has figured it out yet. Obviously no one ever will. So why even ask? Some believe that you will not die until you done what you were put here to do. So, what about good for nothing people. What could they possibly do that was worth anything. Have any effect on the world. Could just be that they were put here to throw an empty bottle out their window at a precise time, in a precise location, only to have another particular person kick it, and another pick it up to recycle it, and the person on the recycling line cuts there finger on it, and the blood gets on a piece of cloth, that is sent to a laundry where a young man gets the blood on his open wound and contracts AIDS and this was a young man that was going to grow up and be the next Hitler, or worse, or maybe he threw the next bottle that would have set in motion a chain of events that would kill the next Ghandi, or Paris Hilton.........Your questions is moot. Sorry.

Answer 3

Life. What is the Purpose of Life? Life....Life....Life. People have so many opinions on this. But here is mine:

Life is not just breathing and spending your days. It is not waiting for death. Life is not about regret.
Life is about living. And when I say living I do not mean just breathing and walking and talking. I mean living.


I mean yelling across a mountain top just to hear words echo back to you.
I mean spreading your arms, getting bare feet, and dancing in the rain.
I mean sitting at a horizon and watching a sunset and letting all your days worries just dive away with that sun.
I mean singing at the top of your lungs without worrying if you sound good or bad.
I mean just running at full speed just 'cause.
I mean giving a destitute even a penny just to see a smile on their face.
I mean putting a big inspirational grin from your heart on your face even through moments of depression.
I mean putting a smile on those faces that are filled with sadness or wet with tears.

So, my friend, what is life? Life is simply living. But living for this world. There is so much sadness, melancholy, hate, sorrow, pain, and agony in this world. It wouldn't hurt to just get up in the morning and put a smile on your face. And think....that today...today...I'll live for this world. Today I'll dance in the rain just 'cause. Today I'll sing in a crowd just 'cause. Today I'll say hello to everyone I see just 'cause. Just 'cause there is enough sadness in this world...and maybe, just maybe, if I can put a smile on my face and cheer someone else up...AKA live for this world....maybe, just maybe, There will be some...a little bit of less sadness and melancholy in this world. Maybe...Just Maybe.

There you go, that's my opinion. Life is living for this world and without a reason. Just living for this world....just 'cause. Just cause you want to lessen that sadness that weighs this world down.

Answer 4

the meaning of life is to find out the meaning of life. ya, isn't that why we read philosophy, advance in science, try to explain things and try to find our ancestral roots because we want to gain knowledge and all of us are a bit lost.

Answer 5

If you look at it from a scientific view. To reproduce and be on the food chain.
If you look at it from an emotional point of view. To love and be loved or to spread a gift.

Answer 6

To find out your purpose on this world like who you are born for, (for me) you won't know if you did it or not until the end of your day.

Answer 7

Thinking, feeling, doing.

Answer 8

The meaning of life is to die....................we live to die. We're just a never ending TV show for god.

Answer 9

Go find out.



but not on yahoo!answers

Answer 10

42.

What was the question?