What IS the meaning of life??

Question

God, Money, Success, Power, Well- being? Explain as much as you want ..just no silly answers

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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

The highest truth cannot be put into words. Therefore the greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.

Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Your life is not lying in wait in the future like a wild animal or some ominous destiny. Nor is it hidden in the heavens, like a paradise or promise. Nor is it shut up in the cave or the prison of your past. It is here and now; it is what you live and what you do. At the heart of being; at the heart of the present; at the heart of everything – in the great current of life, of reality.

Answer 3

From type of view are you looking at life for it's reason?
Speaking biologically, the meaning of life is to reproduce...We are the most complex form of viral life, we've simply evolved a more complicated and painful way to achieve that goal.
My goal in life, because sometimes reason is an incorrect interpretation, is to absorb and process as much knowledge as I possibly can, because ignorance is the only true immorality. Fear stems from ignorance and it's lack of the ability or want to understand something. I no longer fear things.
Money, success and power are simply material things. There is no reason to worry so much about it aside from keeping your future generations comfortable. Although I will not argue that it is nice to have while you're capable of appreciating it.

Answer 4

Just in case anyone mentions survival or reproduction as a meaning. Evolution can't give meaning because evolution is just a mindless natural process like water flowing downhill. So while we have to eat and sleep and etc. , they cannot be meanings.

Real meaning comes from living for a real purpose and there has to be a Creator for there to be real purpose.

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

If we assume a God, then our purpose is straightforward; it is to seek and find Him for it makes sense that He has put our profound need for meaning into our human nature to point us to seek Him.

If we assume there is no Creator, then all we can seek are feelings, usually feelings of self worth. When someone says that meaning is what you make of it, they are referring, not to real purpose, but to meaningless feelings of self-worth.

When we “create” meaning for ourselves, we are really just imagining behaviors that earn us praise consistent with our capacity for deceiving ourselves into believing that the praise is an honest indicator of self worth.

Answer 5

Well...some would say "42" is the answer to life, the universe and everything..(as in the Hitchhiker's Guide)....
However...the REAL answer I believe...is that LOVE is the meaning, the reason, the power, the joy, the sorrow, the very essense of life....
Without it..everything else is meaningless...
Period.

Answer 6

Meaning of life is God, money, power, fame, off-springs, health, education, --in total it is 16.

Answer 7

THIS.

(what is THIS? that's for you to figure out). If God wanted us to know the meaning of life, he would have told us by now.

Answer 8

There is none. Now delete this before the silly answers come in.

Answer 9

read ecclesiastes !! that question is answered in full .....solomon wrote it and its in the old testament in your Bible ...

enjoy its an in depth answer to your question ...I promise you will like the answer.

Answer 10

Love and be happy.