Whats the meaning of life?

Question

The answer that I most agree with gets chosen as the best.

Answer 1

Your work. No I don't mean the job that you hate and go to every day, I mean what really matters to you. The meaning of life is to end yours with the knowledge that you've left the world better than it was before by pursuing your own passion and never falling short of incredible. If a poet spends his entire life on one poem, and dies knowing that it is great and he is immortalized within it, then it will have been worth it and his life will have all the meaning it ever needed.

...Devi

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

Hi Keith,

Either there is no meaning of life or there is a meaning and that meaning is from God. Those are the only two possibilities. We cannot create our own meaning unless we reduce the word "meaning" to just "feel good". The "feel-goodism" just radiates from answers such as: "the meaning of life is to end yours with the knowledge that you've left the world better than it was before by pursuing your own passion and never falling short of incredible."

Real meaning comes from living for a real purpose and that requires God:

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

Answer 4

There are two aspects from which to look at this question. On a basic, animalistic, wholly instinctual aspect in which the answer would be to breed, produce offspring, and ensure the continuation of the human race. The second aspect is the other side of that pendulum, in which the answer ranges for everybody, from serving a higher being to fulfilling one's own personal needs and wants. For me personally, to serve the people that I come in contact with, and thus serve the Lord.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

To be a learner and a earner not a taker and a faker and not to expect someone or government to do it for you. Self esteem and pride and joy of living.
Life is what you make it. We are here for a reason nooone knows...No harm in being the best you can be..
No one really knows the meaning of life until after they are dead.

Answer 7

like the greenday song...it's not a question but an answer learned in time

Answer 8

Living
In
Fear of
Extinction

Answer 9

To discover what makes YOU happy, and then to share that Happiness with others.

Answer 10

To live a long, fulfilling one.