2007-12-06 07:15:17 · 8 answers · asked by Blicka B 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
You do the best you can and do no harm.Yes.
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2007-12-06 07:20:47 · answer #1 · answered by Charlie Kicksass 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Any definition you recieve of this will be subjective and unique to the person answering.
My "meaning" is that i have one life. We all have one life, and some people do not realize this until they are older, possibly 60 years old will be when this hits some people. Luckily, i am young, so how do i deal with the prospect that there is no after life and this is it? How do i find meaning in this seemingly useless and short existence?
I be myself. Everything i do, so long as it does not affect others in a negative way, is for myself. Every choice i make reflects my goals in life and the values i hold. To be able to look back on my life from my death bed and think, "I have no regrets, and i have done everything i wanted to do" is the ultimate goal and PURPOSE of my life.
2007-12-06 15:22:15 · answer #2 · answered by Wise Man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life can mean as much or as little as you choose. This may seem a bit morbid, but the best way I've found to decide what you want the meaning of your life to be is to imagine what will happen when you die. Do you care if people are at the funeral, telling fond stories of times with you? Do you want the news channels to run stories of how "The person who wrote this and that book or song has died today..." or "The inventer of the such and such passed away this morning..." Once you decide how you want to be remembered, the meaning of your life to you will often become clear.
2007-12-06 15:29:57 · answer #3 · answered by Aculeus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A meaningful life is one that is lived for a real purpose. Real purpose requires God.
“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell
Russell was a 20th century mathematician, philosopher and Nobel Laureate. He was also an atheist but he realized that purpose requires God.
All attempts to put meaning into life without God are just self delusions. We do that which we think will make us happy and then pretend that it is our purpose.
If we admit that God might exist, then we can immediately see that He must have put our great need for meaning into our human nature to point us to seek Him. Therefore, seeking God and experiencing God is our purpose. Since God is infinite, we never arrive but are always on our way.
2007-12-07 07:16:38 · answer #4 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
900 Gazillionth time asked, without satisfactory answer! Who says LIFE has to have a meaning? And could it be that all the searching for meaning, keeps us from plainly seeing the meaning?
2007-12-06 15:31:35 · answer #5 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biologically. To reproduce.
Socially. To be the best that you can be. The choices you make are what really counts.
Morally. To treat others as you would want to be treated. Be kind, good, and fair.
2007-12-06 15:35:28 · answer #6 · answered by Tom S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life meaning is YOU YOU-SELF & You are the place you desirve when it is done
2007-12-06 17:00:01 · answer #7 · answered by datsleather 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question "what is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "What is the nature of life (and of the universe in which we live)?", "What is the significance of life?", "What is valuable in life?", and "What is the purpose of, or in, (one's) life?". These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and arguments, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations.
Popular beliefs
"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives, most in the context "What is the purpose of life?" Here are some of the many potential answers to this perplexing question. Many of these responses could be shown to overlap in many ways:
Survival and temporal success
* ...to live everyday like it is your last and to do your best at everything that comes before you
* ...to accumulate wealth and increase social status
* ...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
* ...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human
* ...to compete or co-operate with others
* ...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
* ...to die having succeeded in your purpose
* ...to gain and exercise power
* ...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
* ...to live
* ...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction (alike to number two)
* ...to protect one's family
* ...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny
* ...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
* ...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
* ...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)
* ...to complete your list of life goals
* ...to find something to believe
Wisdom and knowledge
* ...to be without question, or to keep asking questions
* ...to find out the meaning of life
* ...to expand one's perception of the world
* ...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
* ...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes
* ...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
* ...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life
* ...to understand creation
Ethical
* ...to express compassion
* ...to follow the "Golden Rule"
* ...to give and receive love
* ...to live in a way that you don't harm yourself and don't harm your environment
* ...to work for justice and freedom
* ...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
* ...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
* ...to serve others, or do good deeds
Religious and spiritual
* ...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
* ...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
* ...to achieve rebirth in the Pure Land
* ...to become like God, or God-like
* ...to be rewarded for your deeds
* ...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God)
* ...to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
* ...to die and become a martyr
* ...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
* ...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
* ...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
* ...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment and atonement
* ...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
* ...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God
* ...to disprove the existence of a or of all gods
Other
* ...to be emotionally fulfilled
* ...to find true love
* ...to live, love, and laugh
* ...to achieve self-actualisation
* ...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
* ...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general
* ...to live, and enjoy the passage of time
* ...to have fun
* ...to participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe
* ...to make the conformists' lives miserable (see nonconformism)
* ...to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
* ...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others
* ...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced (see Buddhism)
* ...to seek and find beauty
* ...as there is no intrinsic meaning to life, to each individual, the "meaning of life" is whatever he/she decides it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid.
* ...an answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?" is that it is just simply being able to ask the question, "What is the meaning of life?" (see Sri Sri Ravi Shankar below)
* ...to determine a set of goals based on an individuals belief in the meaning of life and work towards the attainment of those objectives.
* ...to make life as difficult as possible for others
* ...a combination of any of the above.
No purpose, and therefore...
* ...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
* ...just a series of events
* ...just nature taking its course
* ...the wheel of time keeps on turning
* ...the cycle of life
* ...whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception"
* ...there is no purpose or meaning whatsoever (see nihilism)
* ...who cares?
* ...life may actually not exist, this is all a surreal dream.
* ...to live in fear of possible events that may happen after life ends.
* ...have fun while it lasts.
2007-12-08 21:15:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋