what is the meaning of life?

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

Life it is said is a temporary sojourn in this material world. Life is the conscious awareness for human beings at least. Life literally means the coming into existence. This coming into existence bring with itself many attributes. For instance it includes consumption of food, growth and one of the attributes is the movement within and without. This movement is sometimes subordinated to the will and sometimes is is beyond the control of will. The existence can be divided into animate and inanimate. Mostly life is attributed to the animate. However it cannot be said that the inanimate is not life. This is important because the universe inherently a reflection of life in so far the movement of heavenly bodies is an expression of dynamism and contribute to the universe dynamic growth. One can dispute this point by saying that the bodies in motion may promote the existence of life but these bodies have no life within. In contrast the conta argument would be that without inanimate thing the so called life attributed to the allegedly living things cannot sustain. This argument may bring into existence another argument that though life cannot exist without these inanimate things still yet divorced from the inanimate thing the life exists and for how long can it exist is another question.
Resultantly we at some point tend to agree with the proponents of inanimate life as ultimately if all the matter is considered in toto minus spirit life includes all. Yet the concept of spirit draws a line between life and dead (dead here does not mean death but dormant having yet to come into existence).

Answer 3

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Answer 4

There's none, If there was there would be purpose but that we don't know either. And since we don't know the answer to both questions we use religion/mysticism and even we try science to answer that for us. It's like trying to ask, are we the only planet with inhabitants in it?! answer; we really don't know and we will never know.

Answer 5

That we have a temporary gift to participate in humanity and leave a print on societyl. We gotta return the gift sometime, so give it meaningwhile you got it.

Answer 6

It is one or more of the following three:
1. Love
2. Devotion
3. Service.

Up to you which one you will choose.

Answer 7

it means ya gotta go to work and pay the man

Answer 8

To find the meaning......
Good luck

Answer 9

To understand it before it's over.

Answer 10

another good question!!

how serious are all of you guys to really know the truthful answer?