Can someone please tell me what's the meaning of life?
2007-10-04 03:00:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
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2007-10-04 03:07:51 · answer #1 · answered by Kobie D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My english teacher says that the meaning of life is to be happy. But I disagree. I believe that the meaning of life is to get eternal life, in which you can only get by serving God. But YOU could make YOUR life's meaning whatever you want it to be.
2007-10-04 10:10:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
42 - it's in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Really. You can look it up.
OK, seriously, wouldn't we all like to know?
Personally, I think the meaning of life is joy and love, pure transcendent joy shot through with love.
Your question made me think of a bit of dialog written by John Patrick Shanley and spoken by Nicholas Cage to Cher in the film Moonstruck - it's about love, but I think it applies to life too - " . . . I love you. Not like they told you love is and I didn't know this either. But love don't make things nice, it ruins everything, it breaks your heart, it makes things a mess. We're not here to make things perfect. Snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. We are here to ruin ourselves and break our hearts and love the wrong people and die! The storybooks are bullshit!"
Well, I think that sums up life too. Basically, life is messy - and it's supposed to be messy. If nothing happens to you, if you live inside little square lines and never go outside of your comfort zone, maybe you are safe - but what do you get out of it? if your life was perfect, what would you learn from it? Would you grow? I think to get the most out of life you need to push yourself a bit to experience as much of it as you can, to push yourself out of your comfort zone (in a big way at least once a year, in smaller ways every day) and make an effort to get to know and embrace your fellow travelers along the way. And accept that it's not perfect - but it is worth it!
So, if life is a journey, then the purpose of life is to learn, change and grow, to transcend - which means opening yourself to experiences and emotions, both good and bad - and since you are on the journey anyway, to strive to have the best possible time you can while going through it - and therefore I think the meaning of life is love and joy, piercing and transcendent - and simple and small - a wild, crazy dance of rejoicing, from the brownian motion of atoms to the twirling arms out laugher of galaxies, from happy exhausted puppies with stomachs full of warm milk sleeping curled up together with their mom, to the first snowflake of winter melting on your tongue to the smell of the first day of spring.
Hey, you asked.
2007-10-04 11:16:18 · answer #3 · answered by Copper Cat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meaning is the same as worth and worth requires purpose. Things that have no purpose have no worth. Real purpose requires God by the very definition of the word "purpose".
“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell
I think that God put our need for meaning into our human nature to point us to seek Him. It's an invitation that can be refused or accepted.
Christians believe that God wants us to seek Him by obeying His command to love our neighbors for where love is, there God is also.
If we reject God, we also reject real purpose and real meaning and our lives are pointless. We then must invent imaginary purposes and convince ourselves they are real in order to avoid insanity or suicide.
2007-10-05 05:31:29 · answer #4 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well what i think about life is that it is a path where u have to face different stuff all the time.....and if u face them with a happy face.they will be a sort of easy........
2007-10-04 10:09:58 · answer #5 · answered by tanvi g 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A mystery to be unraveled by only you.
Each head is a world of it's own...
2007-10-04 10:11:16 · answer #6 · answered by Helpful2U 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is....42.
2007-10-04 10:09:19 · answer #7 · answered by im here 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing! its what you make of it!
2007-10-04 10:09:03 · answer #8 · answered by livinhapi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋