What Is The Meaning To Life, What Is Lifes True Purpose?

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

How old are your questions? I'm guessing they are as old as language--when we began to ask "what the?" in some verbal form of speech about millions maybe even billions of years ago. Boggles the mind. Boggles the mind now and boggled the mind then. So, what's left? YOU decide what is the meaning of life for you and what is the true purpose of your life. These are necessary and evolutionary--no absolute final answers needed. Just keep asking--and let Life's journey unfold for you. And philosophically as well as spiritually, we can always explore the interpretations, ideas, and meanings of many thinkers of yesterday and today. Ah, yes, one thing is for sure: LIFE WITHOUT MEANING IS MEANINGLESS. Humans give life meaning in myriad ways through art, culture, beliefs, and more. I have also found that if I pay close attention, Life gives meaning to me, but that doesn't really answer your question, does it? Well, then, the best answer I can give you just reverberates with more challenging questions: Faith. Oh, yes, and ultimately, I can say, "Nothing, absolutely nothing, is more important than self-trust." Raises more questions, doesn't it? Keep asking--it's the essence of intelligence. Surprised? Yes, I know people believe they must have answers in order to be intelligent, but the smartest person in any group could very well be the one, when asked a question says, "I don't know, but let's explore the possibilities. . . ." Have fun!

Answer 3

Without a God, there can be no purpose and no meaning. You'e asking, I think, why we were put on earth and what is it that we are meant to do? Without God, these questions are meaningless. We can't create the real reason for why we are here on earth unless we claim to have created ourselves.

Evolution is a natural process and can't give us purpose any more than a volcano can give purpose to a lava flow. So procreation and survival are not purposes but rather just part of a natural process.

So without God, we have to invent things to do with our lives (which is not the same as purposes) in order to keep our sanity and then we deceive ourselves into thinking those things are what we were meant to do. Generally we choose things to do that will earn us praise, both real and imagined.

Without God, we also have to keep busy so we won't think about our pointless existence. Focusing on small daily pleasures also helps.

But if we think God exists, that changes everything. We can reason that God put our great need for meaning and purpose into our human nature in order to point us to seek Him. So I reason that seeking God is our purpose and all other things flow from that.

Answer 4

To create one. Many people experience years and decades of angst with this question. The second choice is to make a decision on the purpose you would like to have and then to act on it.

Of course, our own social biases can be explored through philosophy. Have you ever considered that there is a purpose to life and that there could be several purpose_s_ to life.

Answer 5

I don't know what the meaning of life is, perhaps I never will and that's ok with me, but in my opinion the purpose of life is to create more life...

Answer 6

To find the meaning of life, of course.

Answer 7

Making full use of being born. Exploring the possibilities of coming across a real saint. Know the answer to your question and surrender to Him.

Answer 8

Meaning of Life? You willing to search for it's meaning? If you do then you go searching. If not, after you die only you know the answer.

Answer 9

Human spirit incarnate in physical body. The religion is to help him.in1) spiritual, intelectul,cultural& physical evolution which attributes in his attainment 3fold spirituality.

Answer 10

can life not have a meaning? because everything seems meaningless. you are born just to die in 80 or so years. having lived a happy life wont matter once you are dead, because you are dead...