what do you think the meaning of life is?

Question

what do you think the meaning of life is?
not the deffinition of "life"
why do you all think were here?
and
what is the meaning to life

Answer 1

Pain, suffering and learning

Answer 2

There are a few truths to begin with:

1. Evolution (including natural selection) cannot impart meaning any more than some other natural process such as weather can impart meaning to a cloud.

Under evolution, procreation cannot be a purpose; it is part of a natural process such as water flowing downhill.

2. Life gets meaning from living for a purpose and unless there is a Creator/God, there can be no purpose as described below:

“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell (noted 20th century philosopher, mathematician and atheist)

3. We have to have meaning and purpose otherwise we'll commit suicide or go insane. I've heard many people say life has no meaning but I've never seen anyone live that way. They deny it with their voice, but will always think that "leaving the world a better place" is what they were meant (i.e. purpose) to do.

4. You can't give yourself purpose or meaning any more than a rock can say "I was created to hold back the river". When people say such things as "..to make life be whatever you want it to be", they are speaking of FEELINGS and not reality.
They are saying try on some behavior and see if it makes you FEEL good or happy. So feelings take the place of reality.

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

Such a complicated question. I don't know where to start. I have erased my attempts at answering two or three times already.

This time I will try to answer based on personal thoughts and experience only.

I think that the meaning of life is to live, to make life be whatever you want it to be. Sadly, I have to question whether it is possible to actually live in this world. I look at myself and I see how selfish I am, how I am willing to hurt others if it protects myself from harm. I hate myself, and I hate the world. I don't know if I feel more dead than alive. I feel so little. Closing myself from harm has closed me from joy as well. I don't want to improve or change myself, I rather want someone else to accept and love me as I am. How can I live in this world? Somewhere deep inside me I feel that it must be possible. So I guess the meaning of life, or life in this world, is to make it livable. And when that is done, we can actually start living.

Answer 5

I think there is an actual meaning of life. One much more amazing than any person here is going to think up. I think we know very little because we have, over hundreds of thousands of years, conformed to structure and society. Perhaps we wrecked things for ourselves, to involved with trying to control our planet and alas all we have done is ruined it.

As the average human uses only 7 percent of our brain i'd say the secret of life is hidden somewhere in the remaining 93!

Answer 6

Why must there be a meaning to life? I don't believe there is an inherent meaning. We make a purpose, whether it be religion or some other goal in life.

For most of the Christians (and others) around me, it appears to be "family"... making a family, taking care of family, etc

Answer 7

My opinion:

It does not really matter if there's a meaning of life, you have to know that If there are no objective values, then is life meaningless. That is why it continues.

Answer 8

From the minute were born were rotting away such is life son Fu**ing A

Answer 9

my personal explaination is very long. but natural selection says that the meaning of live is to create life.

Answer 10

whatever we say it is - truly whatever comes out of our mouth when asked that question, nothing more nothing less