What is 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

Life is for living

Answer 3

Why do people ask this?
There is no MEANING of LIFE, except to live it to the fullest. Live your life and be happy. Not at other's expence, but find ways to make yourself happy and you will have learned the true meaning of life. Life=Live.
Crickette.

Answer 4

The meaning of life has to be felt/experienced.
How can one describe the experience of eating a 'Durian' fruit to someone who has not eaten it?
- Unless you experience eating it, no one else can tell you what it is like because you & s/he identifies with something known which is not the unknown.
The meaning of life cannot be told to another.
Either one knows it or not.
But if you insist - one will say -to earn money, another to do good deeds another to achieve power etc etc.

Answer 5

Too be,is to live,to live is life,that is the meaning

Answer 6

The meaning of life is found in the author of life, God, who created us so that we might know Him, have a relationship with Him and become His children, through the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ, who died for our sins on the cross. It is through believing in His Son that we are born anew to eternal life. The purpose for each person's life is different, according to God's plan, because He knows what is the best for each one of us, and in His great love, He will show us, so that our lives will have meaning and purpose.

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

Depends...
What do you think?

What I think the meaning of life is, is whatever I find it to be as I live along a timeline with no defininte goal

Answer 9

As the song says, the meaning of life is that there is no meaning.
I would say it is whatever you want it to be; you know, Be all you can be.

Answer 10

chocolate