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

As humans we think of ourselves as the end of the line in evolution. As such we feel that our lives as individuals must have some greater meaning. When we consider that we as a species comprise a given percentage of the biomass based on our consumption as top predator this is an easy trap to fall into. The true meaning of life should be considered from the perspective of the biomass itself. We as humans have been around as a numerical percentage of the biomass for a relatively short span of time. Especially considering the length of time the biomass itself has been present on this planet as a "consistent mass". We are nothing more then an expression of the biomass. Another permutation that it's created in it's own game of survival and expansion. For the question to be relevant it must be asked "What is the desired goal of the biomass"? In this context the answer is simplicity itself. The goal is to expand beyond the confines of the planetary biosphere. To achieve this goal it is necessary to create a permutation capable of designing the next stage of evolutionary consciousness and humans with their mechanical ingenuity seem well equipped to do so. If, in fact, they don't destroy themselves in the process. It's been said that necessity is the mother of invention. The biomass is counting on that. That's why we were created so virulent.

Answer 3

According to the eastern philosophy, Life is a span of time given for an energy that originated from the universe. Life is the bondage for that energy for a time between birth and death. If this time is used well then the energy gets liberated to join it source; if not it will continue to be bonded to different types of bodies. Life is the union of soul and body for a specific time. Only body occupies space and lives under the control fo time. The sould needs no space and time.

So as humans( or animals or even plants) you are given life to live, to substanciate the purpose of your life, then to reproduce and perish. So the meaning of life is to fruitify the union of your soul and body for the longest possible time.
Rememeber, what they say, " A lily of a day is worth more than a pine of hundred years"

Answer 4

...life? Make of it what you will.

Though 'it' is a term thoroughly inefficient. 'It', a word that can readily be used to address anything in existence, and whilst we, ourselves, are in existence, life is dissimilar to everything else. It is the single most important thing, but at the same time, the most useless.

We live our lives in wait of our final day, the whole time, knowing, we will end. An excruciating, inescapable outcome. Though for something so hideously unavoidable, we fight, with every fibre of our being. Pushing our existence, driving our continuance, and for what? For nothing? Or for everything?

While there is a universal confounding as to what is the meaning of life, it is not that which bewilders. It is quite simple to understand the meaning of life, albeit cynical, there is no meaning of life. However, humanity's vicious, uncontrollable curiosity and inability to 'let things lie' prevents a full stop being placed there.

We exist to continue our existence, and whichever way you look at it, that is horrendously nonsensical. We live just to die, we bring up children to do the same, and our children's children and so on will continue our stupidity. Leaving the planet no better than when they entered it.

Life continues because we choose it. Now, it is this 'choice' which bewilders. Our decision defies all logic and yet we make it, goes against all reason, and yet we make it. Our very existence relies on the continuance of this illogical decision. Yet it is seemingly hard-wired into each and every one of us. As inescapable as death itself.

We fight brutally against the most rigorous of adversaries, time. Fighting our extinction, and while the battle will inevitably come to an end, there shall be no winner. There shall be no anything. Just oblivion, waiting for us, looking at its watch counting down to our arrival.

A fate less pleasing. Is that life? Make of it what you will.

Sv_
Aut vincere aut mori.

Answer 5

The meaning of life varies person to person

Answer 6

Personally, I think we find that out when we die... It's kind of ironic, but maybe you watch your whole life back, a sort of "this is you life" thing, and then we find out what on earth we were meant to be doing.

It isn't 42 though, 42 is the answer to life the universe and everything...if you believe that anyway. : )

Answer 7

42

Answer 8

love is the key.help others and see how great life can be.put God first,others second and yourself third

Answer 9

what is "meaning"?

what is "life"?

Answer 10

there is no one answer really, in think the life is what you meke it, live it to the fullest and how you want.