What is the meaning of life?

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3 pies

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

Most intelligent question.. In a nut shell
We are not this material body, IE; Race, color, nationality, Religion, mind, intellect, senses, job, etc. We are all eternal spirit souls, part and parcel of the Supreme Soul, also known as Krishna, Allah, Jehovah, Vishnu, etc. We never die, only this mortal body dies.
This material world is not our real home, it is called Maya (illusion) and is temporary and full of misery, only one fourth of the souls come here, and the rest are enjoying blissful eternal loving relationships with our Maker named above. Those who are intelligent, take up the process of self realization (Bhakti Yoga) Which is universal wisdom and begins with the chanting of the Maha Mantra (the great mantra for deliverance from all suffering and illusion) which gives one real peace, happiness and reality. This process helps one realize their true eternal self and relationship with the creator and give up all material attachments. Which we are all striving for life after life. IF we do this then at the end of life we can return to the eternal Kingdom, where there is no more birth, death, old age, or disease and be eternally happy.
For info. Go to harekrishnatemple.com Read Bhagavad Gita- As it is by Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada asitis.com you can read it on line. I am so glad I found out the mening of life.

Answer 3

The meaning of life is life it's self. Only humans attach more to it than the basis goal of replicating the root DNA shared by all living things. The great diversity of plant and animal life only exist to help insure that those root DNA strands survive the next disaster. So you humans take Carl Martin's advice and get while you can, because it won't be long it'll all be gone and you'll be sorry then.

Answer 4

42

Answer 5

Quotes About Life
From Simran Khurana,
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A Select Collection of Quotes About Life
Leonardo Da Vinci: Quotes about Life
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Somerset Maugham: Quotes about Life
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Nelson Rockefeller: Quotes about Life
It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Sir William Osler: Quotes about Life
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Quotes about Life
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Quotes about Life
It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Charles Darwin: Quotes about Life
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Horace: Quotes about Life
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Margaret Bonnano: Quotes about Life
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross: Quotes about Life
It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.

Answer 6

I believe the meaning of life is simple; to love, have fun and be adventurous.

Answer 7

life is so simple yet so complicated by the materialistic that we have. by the expectations other people want to see on us. by the rules, by the perfections.
life is an adventure, extreme adventure. it is a mystery. an irony.

Answer 8

if you go and kill people. what does that mean. and more so if you go and kill alot of people and at the end you cry your tears out and having regret and blow your head off and die. what does that mean. do it then u know. thats life i think.

Answer 9

There is none.
Life is meaningless, purposeless, and structureless.
There exists no essence which the human should fulfill.
haha.

Answer 10

42! But seriously, I don't even think there is a meaning...