what is the meaning of life?

Question

i don't know what it is and its scary

Answer 1

to wear a toga and eat grapes, while doing the hokey pokey..

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

Mr. e fri w above me has illustrated the 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 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 you some psychological tricks to help us delude ourselves. Think positively; focus on small but meaningless happy thoughts; keep busy, etc.

Answer 4

Nobody can give you a clear cut meaning of life.You have to find it for yourself.One person's view of life may not be others view.You have to search and find what it means to live in this world, what your purpose is?Give yourself time and think about it.Don't take the easy way by asking someone else. That's the main problem nowadays.People can't think for themselves.Questions like these should be asked yourself.try doing that,you'll get the meaning, I'm sure!!

Answer 5

Life is like a hunk of clay - it starts out looking like nothing special, but then we mold it, play with it - and it starts to take shape. At first it's not so recognizeable, but the more effort we put into it, the more it starts to resemble something great.
So, what I'm trying to say is....
YOU put the meaning into life - that answer is different to everyone.

Answer 6

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 7

To work hard and succed in something that make's you happy.Remember work hard is to feed your self or family you dont want to be a bum then there no point in life.Y r u here

Answer 8

you will never find the answer if you don't look for it, there are lot' of places where to look, why don't you start by looking in your life and see what is worth taking the risk of getting frightened and going trough it

Answer 9

eating and sleeping

by the way dont you know how to open the dictionary

Answer 10

it seems your question has been miscatergorized. it actually belongs in the "pathetically unoriginal" category. no worries though, happens all the time.