what is the true 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

Well Do you really think that we are on this earth to make money or babies or friends or good grades. and then die. that would be a wasted life. even if you were the president of the USA and the richest man in the world. would you still die. and face the same judgment as the rest of us???

When is the last time you have looked up in to the night sky??? or seen a picture of the galaxy beyond our eyes sight. This universe is huge... if you see a pic of the Milky way the galaxy we call home, do you know that our sun is just one of the billions of stars in the Milky Way. and our sun like most other stars has some stuff flying around it.... on of those little blobs or rock is the Earth. the home to the Human race. If we are just supposed to make big bucks and die then why does
the rest of the universe have to be so big..

My friend I know the meaning of life...and would not it make since if the entire universe was doing the same thing (if all of the know universe was doing the same thing then there would be a reason for it to be so big and us so small) we are on earth To Glorify God the Creator. the sun glorifies him the moon, the stars the salt in the sea is all showing his glory. Know do you know why the world is soo awesome its because this is his art Gods Display Before man we are so small because we really don't mater...

He also gave us a complex mind ..one that can see and understand his greatness. So I hope you understand now that when we die that's when the party starts if you are a christen you will go to heaven and if you are an Atheist are Muslim or you just don't care you really will go to HELL. are you just crediting "all of this" to a big bang or millions of years??

Answer 3

The true meaning of life is that we are here to live every second of our small lives, because the time that we lose without really leaving never comes back.. The true meaning of life is that we are here to laugh, to cry , to learn, to face problems , to find the happiness and lose it , and then find it again, to love, to be loved, to give and to be gived.. In general to live as much as we can!

Answer 4

One day I asked myself the same question, and at that time I was living in Brazil and a teacher of mine gave me a wonderful poem of Rudyard Kipling that helped me to "understand" life as better as any human being can. I think this will help you as it helped me.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!


--Rudyard Kipling


I hope it helps you.

Answer 5

The reason that we are here, according to Christianity, is that God created us to have a relationship with him. This is why God created a universe fit for human life, and why he laid down guidelines for how to live our lives. According to Christianity, each one of us is created for communion with God; God wants to know us, to love us, and to rejoice with us.

Christianity continues to tell us that the barrier to this relationship is sin, but that in Jesus God heals that relationship, removes that barrier no matter how great it has become, and restores us (this is the gospel). Faith in God and in Jesus is therefore right at the heart of the Christian conception of the meaning of life as the means of achieving fulfilment

Answer 6

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply, Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

Answer 7

Okay, I am not entirely sure of this, but... think back to your 'feral instincts' kinda. Think to the very core of your entire being, back to the roots of first humans. What were their purposes?

My Answer to it - To live long enough to reproduce and keep your species going, that's the basis of it man =].

P.S - not trying to sound perverted or anything, but thats the very basis of the purpose of life, keeping your species going.

Answer 8

to make as much money as you can honestly so you don't have to worry about punching a clock and getting fired or never seeing the pension you were promised, never owing anyone or anything and being able to live your life the way you want, paying your debts and taking care of the people you who take care of you.

Answer 9

No one knows for sure.

Answer 10

I like the 2nd answer. I agree.