The hardest question of all: What is the meaning of life (ok maybe not the hardest question of all lol)?

Answer 1

We are strongest when we are at our weakest. Only when we reach a point of great stress do we discover how much resilience we truly have. You may feel you are handling a situation badly. Given the circumstances, though, you could be expected to fair far worse. Don't criticise yourself for alleged failings. Celebrate for doing so well in such an adverse climate. You are about to discover that a brave step has been far more successful than you dared hope.
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Answer 2

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 3

It's more than just a hard question, it could be a meaningless question. What is the meaning of a raindrop? or a rock on the surface of Mars? Natural processes such as weather and evolution don't give purposes or meanings. Purpose and meaning imply an intelligence and a design. Purpose and meaning of life requires a Creator.

So if we reject God, your question is meaningless.

If God exists, then we have to ask why we have this tremendous need for purpose and meaning. The only answer is that He put it there to point us to seek Him. Seeking our Creator is our purpose. All else pales into insignificance compared with that one purpose.

Answer 4

This question cannot be answered as it makes no sense.

How can the meaning of life be exactly the same for every person on the planet?

Instead ask; What is the meaning of my life?
And no one can answer that one but yourself

Answer 5

Life is whatever you put into it. You are going to get a million and one different answers to the question and the fact of the matter is that everyone finds something different that gives their life meaning and purpose.

Answer 6

Hi Zero. Though science provides the bedrock of empirical knowledge there are many confounding things in science that are not encapsulated in the current paradigm. Religions are just too contradictory and full of magical and mythical delusions. Philosophers are locked into the minutia of logic. Kurt Godel and recently Gregory Chaitin demonstrated the incompleteness of any formal system including logic. Upshot is there is no absolute knowledge though there is a absolutely necessary reality that we are wedded into. When infinity makes its way into human thinking, conceptually and mathematically, everything changes. Mathematician Georg Cantor developed set theory a formalized approach to infinity. Just a short list of other confounding issues. 1. Particle wave duality; 2. Symmetry violations (matter antimatter at the origins of the universe; Qualia or qualities such as the color red that cannot be accounted for by current psychophysical models. 3. The enigma of block time and psychological time e.g. the Twin Paradox in special relativity and matter antimatter time inversions; 4. Our primitive and limited place in the scheme of things whereby, given hundreds, thousands, millions and billions years of future evolution available to sentient beings, we will be the future primitives; 5. Exponential growth in knowledge and technology (first twenty years of this century equal to the whole of the last century); 6. The profound implications of physicist Max Tegmark's modeling of infinite universes with the upshot that if there are infinite universes there are no more atoms than grains of sand than sentient beings e.g. in fact every set will be infinite and equivalent on a one-to-one basis. There is much more to this than space will allow. however be aware that concepts such as birth and death, pantheism, theism, agnosticism, atheism are inevitably incomplete. Add one more dimension too reality and the degrees of freedom go from 4 to 16. String or M-theorists are working in eleven dimensions. The short answer is that there is infinitely more we don't know and understand and there will be sentient beings who have solved all of our problems in means and ways we cannot dream of. There is so much more to existence than we primitive humans can encapsulate in our very limited epoch. Wrap your brain around infinity be humble and see evolution as an asymmetry between pleasure and pain in which pleasure is the default option. Given vast time scales pleasure will turn to goodness, happiness, joy, love and ultimately find expression in intuitive realization of Absolute Infinity and resolution in Absolute Love. In this unfolding all births and deaths will be resolved beyond the limiting constraints of our self-conscious attachments. Stay open too the mystery of existence and never ever claim to know anything. There is more to existence than any idea or belief generated by human beings. Existence is a fundamental mystery imbued with and infinite web of context that maps out too infinity potentiality. Just keep you sense of mystery awe and wonder alive and don't hand it over to any religious dogmatist, philosopher or scientist who claim to know the unknowable Absolute Necessity of your place in reality.

Answer 7

How many times ,is somebody going to ask that Q?/
It is 47...
not 42 but 47.
Listen to it again it is 47.
listento47anon

Answer 8

well to tell you the truth it's relative it depends on the person his background and his life's expericences
there is no specific definition to life because that is left up to us to each one of us to lead a life a good one and determine what life is all about that is diversity

Answer 9

Life means being alive... living.
BEING, just BEING.
Your mission should you choose to accept it, is to fathom out your purpose in life, to seek meaning. To mean what you say and say what you mean.
Your life, your existence has to mean something to you, or else you're doomed!

Answer 10

Obviously 42, i mean it's so simple