What is the meaning of Life in your words?

Question

I know that in the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it's 42, but what would you say is the meaning of Life and everything in It?

Answer 1

if i knew what was my meaning of life than i wouldnt have a meaning anymore. It will also reduse stress, not knowing what my meaning of life is. You see if you knew what had to do, but couldnt do it, you would get so drepessed. so i am better off not knowintg my exact meaning of life. i do know however that i have to preach of God to the entire world, as he has sent us to do.

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

It is not a question.

A rose is a rose is a rose. What is a rose? You are alive, and you ask what is the meaning of life? Are you alive or dead?

If I was in a graveyard and people started coming out of their graves and asking, "What is life?" the question would be relevant.

But you are still out of the grave. You are alive, but you have never looked into the source of your life, from where comes your aliveness.

Just go in.

Forget everything -- the whole world. Even for a few moments, as if you are alone, just go in. Right now, in this very silence, you will know what life is.

You will never be able to say to anybody what life is. It is a mystery to be experienced, but it cannot be explained. That's why I said "A rose is a rose is a rose." It says nothing, there is no explanation, but you can experience it.

And the rose is something outside you, but life is all that you are. But for thousands of years you have been conditioned not to live, just to survive. You have been told by religions to renounce everything that can give you a taste of life.

I don't want to belong to that category of life-negative people. I am utterly in love with life.

My approach is life-affirmative. You dance, you sing, you love. And, in different ways, try to feel your aliveness. Whatever you are doing, do it so intensely and so totally that your full life starts functioning, that you start throbbing.

You will know, but you will never be able to say what it is. But there is no need; anybody who asks you, you can show him the way.

It is a taste on the tongue -- very sweet.

I am reminded of a story.... In a cafeteria in paradise, Gautam Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tzu are all sitting around a table talking about great things of life. A naked, beautiful woman comes with a jar in her hands, and she says, "This jar contains the very juice of life. Would any of you like to taste it?"

Buddha immediately closes his eyes. He is for renouncing life, he is for not seeing a woman -- and that too, so beautiful, and naked.

Confucius tries to follow Buddha, because he does not want to be thought less than Buddha. But just out of the corner of his eye -- the woman is so beautiful, the temptation is so great -- he looks at her. And the woman says, "Perhaps you would like...?"

He says, "First I will have just a sip to taste what it is." He takes a sip and says, "It is bitter!"

Lao Tzu is sitting with wide open eyes, enjoying the beauty of the woman. He takes the whole jar, and drinks it completely.

The woman says, "What are you doing?"

He says, "Keep quiet! I never do anything halfway. Either I do it, then I do it totally; or I do not do it, but then I do not do it totally. And Confucius is right: in the beginning it is bitter -- one has to learn the taste -- in the end it is really great, just groovy!"

My approach is, drink the whole juice of life.

Answer 4

Mr. e fri w above me has illustrated a problem with your question. He says,

"1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings."

People are actually answering two completely different questions.

Question 1: Does life have a real meaning without God? His answer is no and I agree.

Question 2. If I reject God and therefore life has no real meaning, what can I do to make me feel better about myself and/or to forget that my life is meaningless? Here people like e fri w will give us some psychological tricks to help us delude ourselves. Think positively; focus on small but meaningless happy thoughts; keep busy, etc.

Answer 5

I really never cared one way or the other if I lived the next day until my grandson was born. My daughter was on drugs throughout her pregnancy. And he was taken from her and put in the Division of Family Services for his protection.
I got him when he was one-month old, adopted him and we have been inseparable from day one.
He will be 7-years-old Nov. 18th.
So to answer your question... the "meaning of life" to me is living long enough to see him graduate from college and get a (another) good head start in life.

Answer 6

Easy! To learn and prepare for something infinitely larger. Several lives are required to learn everything. Our fragile physical states are incapable of holding the accumulation of all the knowledge that we have gained over multiple lives hence we are only aware of our current life. Complete ascension, or Nirvana, or Heaven (different names in different cultures) is essentially the completion of your training and the realization of all that you have ever learned. Once you were rich and once you were poor. Once you were evil and once you were pure. Your new beginning is the complete understanding of everything that is.

Answer 7

The true meaning of life is Christ.
We are to live and Die for him.
For me to raise my family in his word and faith then i have lived the true meaning of life.

Christ is my alpha omega, my beginning and end.

Answer 8

Its different for every person really. I don't think you really know what it is until you have lived your life. I am too young yet to know what it is...there is so much more yet for me to learn.

Answer 9

That's a hard one.... BUT for me. it would have to be: My kids and my husband, my mother and father. doing the best you can do by helping others in need. NEVER being selish in anything you do. being true to your self, and being true to others in your life.

Answer 10

Never stop, Never turn around, Never regret and Never give up

Protect your special items/people within your life

Dont think bad, dont see bad, dont hear bad

and shut the f*ck up, pay attention, you will grow if you listen and learn.