What is the Meaning of Life?

Question

Gimmie some stars!

Answer 1

Bad news hon, your not going to find that answer here.

Answer 2

Life doesn't have a meaning. Life is the meaning. "Life" itself- your experiences, your existence, is the most elegant solution to your quest for meaning. No further elaboration is possible or necessary.

You are alive, and experience life. If you asked what the meaning was, and got an answer, you would start wondering about the meaning of that, why *that* particular thing was the answer, and what made it so special. And then you'd start wondering about the meaning of the answer to that, and so on and so forth.

The point is, the question can always be pushed further back. But, why? How is having some meaning really in anyway more fulfilling than not having a meaning?

I for one, do not attribute any special meaning to life. But I have fun, and spend time with my family, try to help people out when I can, get into trouble now and then and go on a few adventures here and there, because I just feel like doing it, and that's enough for me.

Good luck! ^_^

Answer 3

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 4

This is the kind of question that has many views and answers. Life is many things, happiness, sadness, strength, weakness, love, loss...etc.. But I think the thing that many people have a hard time finding and I beleive is a major meaning of life is a sense of purpose. If you know why you are here and alive today and know what your life is meant to give and know who you are and have a sense of purpose in your life than no matter what kind of curb ball life throws at you and no matter how bad things get or how much you win or lose or how much you love or hate or how many times you fall, you get up because you know who you are and what your life is meant to be in your own person.. The meaning of life to me is purpose.

Answer 5

My first reaction to this question is to agree with allan - the answerer that said it's to love and be loved. But really, to me, it seems like it is so much more. It is a forum for us to learn about relationships - a super wide variety of relationship. Relationships that can only be had during war time or prosperous time or plague times. Relationships with friends, family, coworkers, government, money, ourselves, teachers - the list goes on and on.

I think that the smartest way to get through it is to focus on loving and being loved - and doing it in such a way that allows you to experience the many faces of love. Others think it is most interesting to explore the many faces of death or danger or any number of things - but it all boils down to relationships and how humans interact with each other with a certain set of stimuli and rules.

Peace!

Answer 6

Each one has a different meaning of life along he;s personal aspects.
Inb general, a happy personne is someone that has an equilibre personnal and prefessional life and try to make happy others.
If you smile alot you could bea better person.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Well it's nothing very special: Try & be nice to people, Avoid eating fat, Read a good book every now & then, Get some walking in, & Try to live together in peace & harmony with poeple of all creeds & nations.

Answer 9

I think everyone has their own meaning. What ever you do, don't spend your life being married to someone you argue with all the time or at a job you hate. Nothing is worse then being unhappy in one of these areas.

Answer 10

A general meaning: "Love God completely, love colleague as Self, love as Christ Jesus, Truth, loves, and ascend in the Light of God as have Enoch, Elijah, Jesus, and many Saints."

See also "Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet,
"Men in White Apparel," Ann Ree Colton,
"The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock, http://www.divinecosmos.com
and "Expecting Adam," Martha Beck.

Regards,

j.

Answer 11

For me life seems like a wheel. Some times you at the top and sometimes you at the ground. It is also colourful, sometimes you happy and sometimes you sad. but from all your experience you can learn that life is a journey.