Whats The Point? Meaning? Purpose of life?

Question

life just seem pointless, what do you think?

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

I am here to get this right.

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother
don

Answer 3

There is a purpose to all life - as well as meaning of individual life - something that reconciles modern science with ancient scriptures and spiritual writings! In short it is EXPANSION - of energy, life, love and more ... In particular it is energy and its flow, expansion and balance. One of the most important principles of energy is that it doesn’t like differences and works out ways to reduce and balance them. This is why energy flows and expands from where it is concentrated (like the sun) out into the colder universe. This flow sometimes sees energy join with other bits of energy in a process that ultimately formed chemicals and then molecules - and life, according to the latest science. It might not seem a noble purpose to help energy flow and balance, but science shows that it is the ultimate purpose of all life. Expansion of physical things, such as having children, expansion of mental things such as gaining knowledge, and expansion of spiritual things such as happiness all keep us busy day-to-day – and in turn help energy flow. The same laws of energy indicate that a meaning of your own life is to find how your energy flows best. This can be as simple as determining what you are truly passionate about or what you do better than anyone else. How you use energy best varies for everyone - therefore, everyone has a slightly different meaning to someone else. Is this science echoing those scriptures that suggest you have your own unique ‘gift’ that you should use? If you look at ancient scriptures and spiritual writings in terms of energy you start to realise that they, and modern science, are all saying something similar. Whatever you believe, whether you agree with the science or not energy is integral to life. Yet few of us ever consider this and the difference that in doing so can make to your life.

Answer 4

There will be a book out soon called Robin Michelle's Visions, it covers some of her theories and experiences with the spirit world.
Here is a hint:
The purpose of life is that we are put on this earth for a test. If we pass, we go back to God from which we came.
If we fail, we will wish forever that we didn't.
It's that simple but come to God through Love.

Answer 5

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

So unless God exists, there is no real purpose and therefore no meaning nor point of life. Nor can we invent our own purpose because we have no real basis for choosing one behavior over another. What we invent for purpose for ourselves are those things that make us feel good about ourselves, e.g. "make the world a better place" but, without God, feelings themselves have no meaning.

But if we will accept that God may exist, that changes everything. It makes sense that the God who created us put the need for purpose and meaning into our human nature to point us to seek Him. So I think that our purpose is to seek God, to find Him and to be united with Him.

Answer 6

The point is what you make it, what you want it to be. If you want it to be pointless then its pointless. We all share our lives together, but can only interpret it ourselves, find our own meaning and purpose. everyone's individual point, purpose, meanings is theirs to either find or create or experience or discover or any combination of those.

Answer 7

The purpose of life is to achieve true balance, to truly find the essence of all things you must find balance between compassion and forgiveness. Once you have found this you will exist in a state of zen.

Answer 8

As a human race, we have forgotten so very much of our truest, deepest nature. We live here on earth behind "the veil." The veil is what keeps us thinking that life is meaningless, that it is a fluke, that we are the ONLY ones in the universe, that forcefed religious beliefs created by someone thousands of years ago give all the True answers to all of your questions of the spirit RIGHT NOW. We have an extremely myopic view of the world.

I want to tell you... our True Nature is more fantasic and amazing and awesome than you might be able to imagine right at this moment. You've heard the phrase "we are God's children?" Well this is true in a way far beyond what you think it means. We, as humans are more powerful beyond our wildest dreams.

There is ONE SOURCE of all creation, call that God if you want. But the veil would make us believe that we are SEPARATE from the One Source, or worse yet, that there isn't any Source. The veil would have us believe that we have to struggle and suffer and pray and apologize and maybe one day, after we die, we can attain a connection with IT.

But I want to tell you that things like time, space, death and duality are an ILLUSION. Our limited minds, programmed since birth by our cultures and religions have made us blind to our True Nature.... and our True Nature is that we are Creator-Gods. If only we could WAKE UP from our dreams of money and popularity to see that none of it matters because the power we possess is so much greater!

I want you to keep seeking and asking these kinds of questions. Don't listen to those who preach about following "rules and regulations" or tell you that this is all meaningless.

You know how all the Christians talk about "The Second Coming of Christ?" Well, they think that a white Jesus in a white robe is going to land on earth and tell half the world that they're going to hell, and tell the other half that they're going to heaven. What I say to them and their belief is this: The Second Coming of Christ is not a person. The Second Coming is the awakening of the Christ power within the heart of every individual man, women and child on this planet. It's not a Christian Christ made up at the Vatican in Rome by the Pope. Christ is a word given to describe when a person realizes that they are truly ONE WITH GOD and SHARE with God It's awesome, creative, UNIVERSAL power. A power that literally transforms our genetic and cellular structure into LIGHT.

Do you believe in evolution? Most likely. Well, do you honestly think that when evolution got to the point of us - homo sapien - that evolution just STOPPED? Evolution moves on, just like it has for billions of years. Guess where we go next on the evolutionary scale? We evolve to HOMO UNIVERSALIS.

You... in the center of your heart... in the still, quiet, powerful moment of RIGHT NOW can connect with the most supreme power that you possess RIGHT NOW. And that power is none other than the power of God, of which you are a reflexion. When you streatch out your hand in front of your face and look at your fingertips, is that not a part of you still? Does it not have all the powers that you direct to it? That is a decent description of our relationship to God. Now all we have to do is realize that our hand is part of our body - that we are a part of God.

The meaning to life is the journey of realizing what we TRULY are... it's not an easy journey. It may require you to dispell thousands of years of judgment and belief systems that have been forced upon you. It will take a pure heart of courage to find the Truest of answers. The answer is right there inside of you. When you allow even a drop of the flood of this realization to touch you, you will feel overwhelming love, pure bliss and happiness.... You're heart will leap like it does when you fall in love and you will cry tears of immense joy.

The meaning of life is to awaken from the deep sleep to discover our True Selves... beyond time, space, language, ego and death....

I promise you, that before we get old (assuming you're not like 80 years old or something), we will see and experience something on this planet beyond what words can describe. It will be amazing and transforming.

I'll see you on the other side.

I suggest you read "The Third Millennium: Living in the Posthistoric World" by Ken Carey. As well as the book "Starseed Transmissions" by the same author. These books changed my life.

Answer 9

it depends on the person who is living it...life it ultimately what you choose to make it.

Answer 10

cause u r looking in the wrong direction.