What is the meaning of our existance?

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 Dr Demonic. if you really want to know- 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 gives one real peace, happiness and reality. Then at the end of life they can return to the eternal Kingdom where there is no more birth, death, old age, or disease and be eternally happy. Self realization is the meaning of life. (to realiz our eternal, transcendental loving relationship with our maker named above.
For info. Go to harekrishnatemple.com Read Bhagavad Gita- As it is by Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada asitis.com you can read it on line.

Answer 3

What isn't the meaning of our existance?

Answer 4

You really need to read a book by Rick Warren called, " The Purpose Driven Life." A ton of people have found it to be a life changing read.

Answer 5

There is a light behind forms. We could call it the life, soul or spirit of form. Whatever its name, it is the essence of things, the inner meaning of things. To read a thing well, is to divine its inner light. In paragraphs, we call it understanding the meaning. In relationships, reading well is the evocation of love. In nature, it is resonance with beauty.

The best reading of anything is morphing with light. To get at the inner meaning of a thing, we must identify with it, merge with it. And to read well, we must go deep into a thing and deep into ourselves. These two depths are intimately related. Morphing with light is true consciousness, and it is both revelation and self- revelation.

Answer 6

To exist. That is all. It doesn't have to have meaning, too, does it? That's just too much to expect from a wobbly mass of particles.

Answer 7

I think Soul Growth is a big part of our existence...

Answer 8

We are here to be in relationship with one another and through these relationships to experience life in a physical body on an oxygen rich planet.

Answer 9

I love the first answer,
because thats how i feel sometimes. Although I do need a purpose of some sort.

Answer 10

Why does there need to be a meaning?