2007-12-23 13:54:16 · 9 answers · asked by a. m. 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It means that Life is worth living no matter how hard it seems.
2007-12-23 14:08:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a matter of experience that leads to knowledge of self and of the world.
Consciousness, the basic field of existence, is made up of subject (mind) and object (matter, or world) and that which connects them--experience.
Meaning on any level, from the least significant to the greatest--results from experience. Experience illuminates consciousness. The significance of the experience depends on how much of consciousness is illuminated.
So there is only one sense of "meaning". When people talk about the meaning of life, they are referring to experience of large enough proportions and significance that it reveals a significantly large part of who they are and what the world is.
2007-12-23 18:31:19 · answer #2 · answered by yet-knish! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might appreciate Harry Frankfurt's "On Truth." It's about 50 normal pages (100 pages in its current small format).
"Truth" is "meaning," and therefore valued as productive, re "reality," "physis."
"What is 'truth'?" is therefore the more fundamental question implied in "life's meaning?"
The levels of perception of "what is" frame "What is truth?"
It is both common-sensically obvious, and scientifcally demonstrated, that various individuals demonstrate different perceptual modes and acuities over time, e.g. alpha, beta, and gamma wave states, notions of reality as Immanence, 5-sense physis data stream, spiritualization of sensibility, etc.
Hence, one's own perceptual abilities, and those of others who are of the best, most acute, and accurate, ought inform and frame the notion of "the true."
To learn from more than one's own perceptions is to act on faith in others' perceptions. The most commonly accepted level of verifiable intermonadic perception is scientific. Other levels include those states of Saints which import Presence to soulfields able to resonate and verify experientially.
A few recommendations as to the better perceivers: "Hyperspace," Dr. Michio Kaku; "Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet; "Extraordinary Knowing," Dr. Elizabeth Mayer; "Men in White Apparel," Ann Ree Colton; "The Master of Lucid Dreams," Dr. Olga Kharitidi; "Autobiography of a Yogi," Yogananda, http://www.yogananda-srf.org and "The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock, http://www.divinecosmos.com
2007-12-23 14:31:07 · answer #3 · answered by j153e 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We use the word "meaning" to refer to actions and we use "purpose" to refer to things but both require a design or plan.
What does God mean for me to do with my life? What purpose does God have for my life?
Both require God, otherwise the question is meaningless. We can't ask questions of meaning and purpose of mindless natural processes such as evolution.
2007-12-23 14:21:30 · answer #4 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you ask any two people this question you will get two totally different answers. What is a meaningful life for one would be eschewed by another. Meaning is subjective.
2007-12-23 14:55:23 · answer #5 · answered by gldnsilnc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life has no meaning or purpose besides the meaning and purpose we give to it.
2007-12-23 14:39:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
meaning life have a purpose , reason u live because of life , life have a meaning in all of us, for some it can be hard , for others it not , so i guess u have to decover what life mean to u.
2007-12-23 16:06:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is your purpose in life, what do you want to do? Example: nurse=her/his meaning in life is healing or helping others. That's my take on it.
2007-12-23 14:04:26 · answer #8 · answered by nan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Significance. What in your life is significant to you?
What makes you feel that your life is gratifying and fulfilling to you.
What makes you feel that you are not wasting your life.
2007-12-23 14:03:43 · answer #9 · answered by roscoedeadbeat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋