Whats your interpretation on the meaning of life?

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

My interpretation? It's the one that works best for me. Everybody has to find their own meaning in life. And you'll never do it by asking someone else what it is.

Doug

Answer 3

Meaning and worth and purpose are all connected. Meaning and worth, I think, are basically the same thing.

Our lives are worth living when we live for a real purpose. Real purpose requires God:

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

If we reject God, we also reject purpose and our lives are therefore meaningless and worthless. We can't tolerate the thought of our lives being worthless so we invent our own method for determining our worth. We pretend that if people praise us for some good deed, then we must have worth. So gathering praise becomes our pretend purpose. "I want to leave the world a better place" is an often heard phrase that gains us imagined praise and therefore imagined worth. Under our invented system of worth, we are constantly working to earn our worth.

When we were children, we found our worth through the love of our parents. We didn't have to earn it. Christians believe that we have worth simply because we are children of God. It is a very liberating idea.

Answer 4

The meaning of life can be answered if you accomplish one of the most important reasons for the purpose of life, and that is; To come back into the knowledge of your Father in Heaven.

If you are unable to believe that you are a child of God then I doubt that you will ever reach a level of faith to find the truth; And the truth, even if it’s before your eyes will be silly and laughable and not worth the dust of the ground to you. But if you believe and develop your faith then blessed you shall be, because faith will open the eyes of your understanding, and then you will know. So read on if you believe and feel a familiar spirit in these words.

The earth was made and placed in this solar system specifically for the spirit children of God, that is, us, mankind, so we can experience a physical world in a physical human body. Life is a test; a proving ground; A place in which we are left to our own devises where our will, desires and intents of the heart reveal our true character. So therefore it is a place to know good and evil and to learn to choose good over evil, right over wrong, righteousness from wickedness and to abide in the law. It’s the opportunity we have to become great children, better today than yesterday, and greater tomorrow than today. It’s the time to gain true knowledge, whereby faith, understanding, wisdom and righteousness has a sure foundation. It’s a time for good works and charity derived from unselfish love; love unconditional. I emphasize the truth that we must love our brother and sisters unconditionally. If we have come into the world from the Kingdom of God through birth, then it’s logical that a purpose of life is to have many children and large families and to fill the earth with it’s measure. Life is also a period for man to be industrial, creative, and to investigate God’s creation; and to improve his circumstances; But we must remember that there lies a snare, as there is an opposite in all things; the love of money and pride as an example. And also without God science would not exist in its effort to prove God false.

There is so much more to the meaning of life but to put it simply, life is the time to work out one’s own salvation; To prepare to meet God; To stand before Him with your life’s work at hand, whether it be good or evil. We all fall short of the glory of God but we are expected to perfect ourselves in a celestial sense, and try our hardest in the aspects of our weaknesses in resisting temptation; for the spirit of a righteous man rules the flesh and abides in the law, but Lucifer, through the flesh attempts to conquer man(the spirit) with evil contrary to the law.

If you are still with me let me finish by saying: I know we are all children of a loving, true and just God, our Heavenly Father. I know that our Father so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him and loves and serves Him, and keeps His commandments shall receive the greatest gift that God can give, and that is Eternal Life.

Soul 03Oct07

Answer 5

Just live well and live fully present. Like the above answer says, there are a lot of meanings if only you would look.

Answer 6

The "meaning of life" is the same as the "meaning of watermelon".

It just "is."


Life is a "B" then you die.



g-day!

Answer 7

I believe that 42 is the appropriate answer

Answer 8

Catholics believe the meaning of human life is to know and love God.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/prologue.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 9

Never ask that question and you'll see the answer everywhere

Answer 10

we are born, we live, we love, we live some more and then we die.