2007-07-20 01:56:10 · 18 answers · asked by Ahry K 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
By religion -> To live life in the way the god/s has stated and get the divine reward after death.
By philosophy -> To find deeper and personal meaning as to why you exist as a person, other than what is defined by religion and science.
By science -> The meaning of life is securing future life. Reproduction and securing the life for future generations is what matters.
Or from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy... then the answer is 42.
Lunkwill: Do you...
Deep Thought: Have an answer for you? Yes. But you're not going to like it.
Fook: Please tell us. We must know!
Deep Thought: Okay. The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is...
[wild cheers from audience, then silence]
Deep Thought: 42.
2007-07-20 01:59:55 · answer #1 · answered by --- 4 · 0⤊ 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.....
2007-07-20 10:54:43 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one knows the true meaning of life. If we did then the world would end. It is a yearning to know and to each individual, there is a different answer to this question. So, for now, just be happy in the fact that there is no right or wrong answer to this question. If God wanted us to know the answer to this question, then we would all have the same answer when this question was asked.
2007-07-24 00:35:31 · answer #3 · answered by Kelly R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To learn to love... to grow spiritually to a higher level that your previous life. Love helps to do that as it is the highest of all feelings & joys a human being can experience.
2007-07-20 10:01:13 · answer #4 · answered by Somewhere in Time 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That depends on what in life has meaning to you.
2007-07-20 09:00:46 · answer #5 · answered by Miss Candi 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Meaninglessness
2007-07-20 08:58:55 · answer #6 · answered by The Witten 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To carry out good deeds each life, have a kind heart, be a good person, meditate and break free.
2007-07-20 09:04:41 · answer #7 · answered by eTerNal_sAnDwIcH92 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does there really need to be a meaning?
2007-07-20 09:00:13 · answer #8 · answered by cory h 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stop asking this question! It gets asked almost every week. Just look in the resolved archives and look at their answer.
Here's your answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_of_life
2007-07-20 09:00:27 · answer #9 · answered by Master Answers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is 42. Everyone knows that.
2007-07-20 08:59:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋