what, in your opinion, is the meaning of life?

Question

to me, it's about enjoying the little things and enjoying the company around you (personally, i can't stand being alone). i think people shouldn't worry about what'll happen after it's over. but fit as much partying as possible in to it while still fulfilling your hopes and dreams. and then, when you've done that, to finally be at peace.

okay, i've got to admit i didn't really care if you answered this question. mind you, i do like to hear your opinions and your points of view. but i have a few friends that spend all their time worrying about 'their time' and i felt like enlightening some people (hopefully).

Answer 1

I agree with you that living the life itself is the meaning of life.... and worrying over any further grand meaning is meaningless since none ever seems to have found out any. If there is any grand meaning, the Creator would have designed it and He would take care of that too one way or another.

Answer 2

Well it can be looked at in several different ways. Some religions and races believe that there is no meaning as such other than to live and enjoy, that at the end we simply come back to do it all again, Reincarnation. Some people believe that we are here to learn a lesson before returning to the world in which we truly belong. I have also heard theories that this life is a game of some higher being (in the sense of a SIMS style game) The final reason I am going to put forward is the one I personally have come to believe. In the Bible it states that Adam was made from the dust of the ground and to the dust he shall return. At no point in the Bible does it state "and the creation was complete" it states "on the seventh day he rested" and admired his work. The bible states that God created humans in His image and he created animals in their image. Not that we are identical to Him but that we have been created in His image. God didn't make us perfect straight off the mark, He has made everything so that we can learn for ourselves. The Lord is still creating us and in the end we will be perfect. When we become perfect He will turn us from the beings made from the dust of Earth into souls and spirits that will go on forever. Until that time God will continue to put us back on this Earth, each time molding us a little more, taking off the rough edges. That is what I believe to be the meaning of life, our Lord is creating perfect beings.

Answer 3

Living!

Answer 4

I recommend reading the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible. The writer, King Solomon of Israel, goes through a very long rant on the futility of life. It can be a very depressing book, but at the end he refers to one thing that gives life meaning, God. Solomon was a king, rich by any worldly standard, and a man of wisdom; he tried everything there was in life, but there was only one thing that could really make it meaningful. All of the rest was "Meaningless, meaningless! ...A chasing after the wind!"

Without God, we are just some very new sentient life-forms which will cease to exist individually and collectively in a very short amount of time. With God, we have Hope, Love, something more.

Answer 5

Life is for the LIVING. Not for the people who sit and watch life pass by. I have a "Philosophy" of my own as follows : I believe that, from the Very Second that I was Conceived in my mother's womb, Everything that I have smelled, touched,heard,seen,tasted, or in anyway experienced whether good, bad,happy or sad....... I MEAN EVERYTHING is What Makes Me Who and What I AM. If anything was changed, I would NOT be here writing this at this Very Moment in Time. You see-- I would Not be ME, I would be Someone Else.As for TIME! TIME is Irrelevant- Only Life is Important! No Life= No Time.

Answer 6

Life is the best thing in life. It is a gift of nature. It is a challenge to each individual for the preservation of life. Life is the new beginning of a creature. It give us the opportunity to live a meaning life. Life is to pursue happiness in life. To seek goodness in life and to value life. To enjoy the life to the fullest and make the most out of it.

Answer 7

My opinion is to find the truth of evolution to find what is the meaning of life, how did we get here, and are we truely alive? None of us really know what the meaning of life is because we don't know as fact if it exists since we live in a world where there was no beginning and there is no end.

Answer 8

The question of the "meaning" of life seems to be a teleological question: for what purpose is life? - for what purpose is my life? My life, is assumed by the question, to be of some purpose to some other end: life is a means to some other end. This assumption, however, need not be true. It may be that life is one thing that not be thought of as a means but strictly as an end, something to be sought after for its own sake.

It would be like asking "what is the purpose of happiness?". Although "happiness" might be a bit vague and undefined, it is generally sought after for its own sake, not for the sake of something else. It may be that life, like happiness, is something sought only for its own sake and not as a means to some other end.

Answer 9

To be happy and live life to the fullest - but to also help others do that as well. To me true happiness from within (not artificial materialistic happiness) comes from making life full and complete for others also. Regardless of whether you prescribe to an organized religion or karma - it all works out.

Answer 10

There is no such thing ... Philosophers and Theologians alike have debated the meaning of life for eons. They have yet to agree on a definition. The PURPOSE in life is easily attained. You will find the meaning of your life after death.