What is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

This is a deep question that requires a deep answer. The answers will come for you don't worry, just keep searching, as we all have a different PURPOSE in life. If you believe in the Bible, The meaning of life is to do God's will:

- To love God first and foremost
-To love one another, and strive to do good for each other, because according to God, we are all brothers and sisters. Not biologically, but, spiritually.

If that's too deep for you...

Karma. What goes around comes around. When you send out love into the universe, you get love back. When you send out hate, you receive hate. When you are confident, karma will bring back success, feel me? Now don't get me wrong, bad things happen to good people too, and visa versa, but karma will always come back around and set things in order. So do good. The meaning of life will soon become clear to you and then you will have a foundation of prosperity to continue to build on.

Answer 2

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 3

This is the most favorite question here in this site. I believe life is the most important thing before anything else in this world. Life should be given the utmost attention before anything else. Life is the truest and most significant a person should vale most. Failure of which gives a person a problem. It demeans a person's life. Therefore I believe the true meaning of life is giving value to it and also value of the life of other creatures in the world.

Answer 4

I think the meaning of life is to forever try to find the meaning of life. It is our never ending, sole purpose. We will forever continue to question and ask ourselves why we are put here, and in order to achieve that answer, we will expand ourselves and continually reach for the horizon. Our need to have an answer to this basic and yet complex question will never be fulfilled, but it is what drives the human spirit.

Answer 5

I'm amused by the few people who answer "procreation". It's an attempt to place evolution as the basis for having lots of sex. But evolution is a mindless natural process that cannot care about whether anyone has sex or not. Evolution cannot even care whether the human race dies out or not.

Real meaning requires living for a real purpose and that requires God. Here's what atheist Bertram Russell said about purpose:

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

When people say you have to make your own meaning, they don't refer to real meaning but only to feelings. They do with their lives what they want to do (seeking happy feelings) and dress it up by deceiving themselves into thinking it was what they were meant to do.

I would choose to seek God (and real purpose and meaning) rather than accept a pointless, meaningless existence that requires self deception in order to avoid suicide:

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." -- Albert Camus

Answer 6

The meaning of life is to always question the meaning of life.

And if you think you've got the answer - you really haven't even begun to scratch the surface of anything...

Answer 7

life can only be defined by each person, because with each individual is a new form of life. For me, the meaning of life is to love and be loved by all i can. That's my life's purpose...to generate happiness to mankind.

Answer 8

To live it. The hardest thing to do in this world is live in it and if you can do that then you have lived a fulfilling life. Also to make a difference and to love and help others in need.

Answer 9

As i said you could ask this million times never get the same answer.
Whatever you make of your,it has its own special meaning to you.Just do what you think is best, don't let what others think bring you down.Least try not,anyways

Answer 10

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