What is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

For humanity and the individual to perfect itself. It sounds hugely impossible, mainly because the dark powers at large profit much from our suffering and inability to do so. Intellectual, spiritual, mental, physical purity. Purity of thought, deed and speech.
Achieved by gaining power and control over ones own mind and will. Purely to be free and thereafter to live in peace and love. Untilman and the world is chained by illdeed desire, needs that neither fulfill or bring contentment, he chases after illusory goals, false comforts etc....to be free from detachments...what keeps us attached and chained, need fear greed desire...when man is driven by reason logic and love and is master of his own will , ie that which determines what we like, want, crave...then he is free, and it is then that he starts to truly live...

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

Nature or whatever led to the existence of human life does not care for each individual humans. It just wants the human life to continue to exist as a whole. That is why it rewards us with pleasure when we eat and we have sex but eliminates us at old age when we can no longer contribute anything to serve its purpose. The intention is to reward us for surviving and procreating so that human life continues to exist not that every individual human continues to exist.

Apart from serving nature's purpose mentioned above, we do not attain much in our lives. Some people may argue that we help others and make their lives easier by doing so. But in fact, we are unknowingly falling prey to nature's conspiracy to have the human life continue to exist. By helping others we are just making their survival easier.

If you think about it, we do not know where we come from. We did not have a choice on whether to be born or not. By the very nature of the whole system we can not be given a choice before we existed. So if you think about it deeply you will relaize that we pretty much are not in control of anything. All we can do is survive until we die. Once we die, nothing matters, in the sense, we are in the same state as a person who was never born. It does not matter how we lived or what we did because we no longer exist and therefore no longer have our identity which would have represented our lives to us. We can say that we continue to live in memories and the effects our good deeds in the society. But it does not matter because we can no longer know or feel it.

I have come to the conclusion that, philosophically speaking, life is purposeless. All you can do is enjoy when you are alive. And you do not have to feel guilty about enjoying because it is a well known fact that if you are happy you live longer. therefore being happy is an integral part of survival and it is your right and purpose to survive.

Now this argument is consistent with the fact that some people who are depressed try to end their lives. People who are depressed are those who can not find any enjoyment in anything. What keeps most such people from not killing themselves is guilt of betraying others and fear of the pain of death. (The pain during death is nature's another method of making sure that we continue ot survive until nature wants us eliminated when we are really old. )

However, it is hard to theorise what nature achives through the survival of life as a whole. Maybe when we can answer that question, we would know the purpose of our lives at a more greater depth.

Answer 4

It is the condition or fact of being, of living: that state of ceaseless change and functional activity which constitutes the essential difference between living organisms and dead or non-living matter. The continuance of animate existence energy, liveliness, vivacity, animation. A vivifying influence of living things, it's the living form or model, a life-size figure on which it depends whether a person shall live or die of vital importance.
Life is a period from birth to death birth to present time or present time to death.
That is what life means, that is the meaning of life, organic and not dead.

Answer 5

Just living. We humans like to consider all things have meaning. Life has no meaning. Life is itself the meaning.

Answer 6

There's not a meaning to life. There's just a meaning to everything in it but some people are too blinded by other things to see them.

Answer 7

A poem doesn't mean but be.

I believe it was either E.E. Cummings or T.S. Elliot who said this.

Answer 8

Love

Answer 9

Funyuns.

Answer 10

Forty-Two