What is life??? What is the meaning of life??? Who is god???? Who made god???

Question

Is it all an illusion????

Answer 1

The philosophical 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.

These questions are separate from the scientific issue of the boundary between things with life and inanimate objects.
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. The responses are shown to overlap in many ways but may be grouped into the following categories:

Survival and temporal success
...to live every day like it is your last and to do your best at everything that comes before you
...to be always satisfied
...to live, go to school, work, and die
...to participate in natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future of intelligent life
...to compete or co-operate with others
...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
...to gain and exercise power
...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
...to eat
...to prepare for death
...to spend life in the pursuit of happiness, maybe not to obtain it, but to pursue it relentlessly.
...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction (alike to participating in evolution)
...to protect and preserve one's kin, clan, or tribe (akin to participating in evolution)
...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
...to observe the ultimate fate of humanity to the furthest possible extent
...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means
...to attempt to have many sexual conquests (as in Arthur Schopenhauer's will to procreate)
...to find and take over all free space in this "game" called life
...to seek and find beauty
...to kill or be killed
...No point. Since having a point is a condition of living human consciousness. Animals do not need a point to live or exist. It is more of an affliction of consciousness that there are such things as points, a negative side to evolutionary development for lack of better words.

Wisdom and knowledge
...to master and know everything
...to be without questions, or to keep asking questions
...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 understand and be mindful of creation or the cosmos
...to lead the world towards a desired situation
...to satisfy the natural curiosity felt by humans about life

Ethical
...to express compassion
...to follow the "Golden Rule"
...to give and receive love
...to work for justice and freedom
...to live in peace with yourself and each other, and in harmony with our natural environment
...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
...to serve others, or do good deeds

Religious and spiritual
...to find perfect love and a complete expression of one's humanness in a relationship with God
...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
...to become like God, or divine
...to glorify God
...to experience personal justice (i.e. to be rewarded for goodness)
...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. to seek objectivity)
...to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
...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 discover who you are
...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

Philosophical
...to give life meaning
...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 know the meaning of life
...to achieve self-actualisation
...all possible meanings have some validity
...life in itself has no meaning, for its purpose is an opportunity to create that meaning, therefore:
...to die
...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
...nature taking its course (the wheel of time keeps on turning)
...whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception"
...there is no purpose or meaning whatsoever
...life may actually not exist, or may be illusory )
...to contemplate "the meaning of the end of life"

Other
...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 participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe
...to make conformists' lives miserable
...to make life as difficult as possible for others (i.e. to compete)

Answer 2

Through trivia and the obscure we find a great significance attached to a higher power, or God, as we understand him. Over and over again the blanks fill in and again we have come full circle. The sociology of religion divides the world into the two self-evident classes of meaning: the sacred and the profane. The student decides, the teacher abides. God may be the source, if you believe it. You believe what you want, another dispensation, made possible by free will. If you call your three part question, Sources of the Meaning of Life. Me? Well I don't know, I guess I'd start with God, but the other possibilities include, synchronicity. That is, the simultaneous events don't always happen at the same time So that opens up the mind/body problem. (Trust me). You have your three: The problem of faith, the problem from free will/determinism, and the problem of mind/body dualism.

Answer 3

I think man made God. There is proof that the earth is a planet flying through space without a care for human life. It has climate change, earthquakes and inter galactic tragedies and has experienced mass extinctions. If there was a God, it would be more like a place that nothing would happen.
You can rid your life of un-necessary fantasy and seek the truth; understand science.
The true miracle is that we are here on this planet by amazing chance. And the only way we can spare the human race is to better understand the earth. Religion creates differences in ideology which will soon divide the human race and that is a tragedy!
I get fully inspired when I sit by the ocean and think that there is no God.

Answer 4

If you really do actually care to think hard about these questions rather than just guess, medieval philosophy is a great place to start. Religion plays a huge role in philosophy, and there is a lot of rumination on the interplay between scripture and reason. Start with Aristotle and Plato as a base, then read Augustine (confessions chapters 8-11), Anselm (monologion), Boethius (the consolation of philosophy), Avicenna, Al-Ghazali, Avveroes, Maimonides, and Aquinas. Toss in some Bonaventure if you'd like to be complete.

They won't give you answers - no one can - but they approach these questions with a very critical eye to reason and logic.

Answer 5

i'll try to answer these Q's.

A not-so-famous philosopher called Sir karl Popper recently and not-so-recently EXHORTED his readers to try and try agin to understand the futility of asking 'why' or 'who is' questions; For similar so-called important questions like, "who(the h-ll)am I,
or the very,Very similar question,' What am I?' are just a little bit naive and.....well,.....wordy! Yes,unneccessarily so
not because im the brother of Martin luther King but because the question is really too simplistic-HOWEVER IMPORTANT AND SERIOUS IS MY LIFE.

What about the flipping melting world's Ice-caps?What about the real and virtual complete lack of an Effective World police force? For if you go out right now and are attacked ,if you escape the police are there for you to contact and to apprehend and stop such a crime! And THAT is worth another Bl--dy exclamation mark!!

So you and hopefully others might see- there ARE serious questions to be asked,and not just for the polititions to answer,either.
Like THESE questions,You matter! And their effective and LASTING or even Good answers are urgently required.
So whilst you try further to understand what i have sincerely written,please dont forget to be good to ur neighbor;for we may fail at answering the questions i posed above;but a little kindness and appreciation along the journey may make our present lives bearable.All our lives.

Answer 6

All those questions can be answered by this statement.

It is what you interpret it as.
Life is whatever you want it to be. It is part of a journey of the soul on its way to realization. At this time I dont think anyone really knows who god is or who created god. Or even how the entire universe was created. Pretty soon our scientists will find other planets like earth and everyone will soon realize there is other intelligent life in the universe. That will cause everyone to question if god exists or not.
Something exists that gives us our soul.

Answer 7

eek... ok im gonna try to answer this 1 to the best of my abilities, there's 4 questions there so im gonna answer in order.

1. life has to meet a certain criteria in order for it to be life.
if life is a process that can consume energy, reproduce, moves, and can be extinguished. i could call fire a life form.
but life is usually biological and has either dna or rna running the show.

2. The meaning of life could be compared to the 1st question, because your asking what is life in a different context. the meaning of life could be taken on also spiritually and philosophically. and could mean anything to anyone.
i personally believe that life is a means for god to choose certain people to be with him in the kingdom of heaven. ( im a christian if you couldn't tell) lol .

3. God is the creator of man, earth, the heavens, time, and ultimately creation itself.

4. God cannot be made so to speak because he stands outside what is made.he made the process of making. the creator is a infinite point with no beggining or end. a source of unlimited power which can only be controlled by itself.

Answer 8

What is life? Life is everything we experience, its all we know.

What is the meaning of life? I have no idea. As far as I'm concerned, I've been plonked down in the middle of an endlessly complex world with nothing in the way of an explanation. If you want to assign a meaning to life for yourself, you can, but I don't believe there is a universal 'meaning' to it all.

You ask the god questions with the assumption that he exists, and this is something I don't believe in so I can't answer those for you.

Answer 9

personally, i am nondenominational, so I really don't know. Good question: if matter cannot be created nor destroyed, what made the beginning of time... or god? one myth isn't true! A talking snake, a burning bush, a girl getting pregnant who's a virgin!? no.. lots of things don't make sense at all. the bible isn't a written record of the truth to me, it's more of a book of similes or maybe even poetry. maybe it's just a story. who knows? nobody knows. after we die, how must we be certain that we will go to heaven or hell? is there a heaven or hell? maybe our energy is trapped in a giant hole. maybe we go to the land of ponies and unicorns! who knows? one of my ideas is that either our energy lurks (the explaination of ghosts) or our energy is transported to another dimention, thus forming this idea of heaven and hell. but who says heaven is good, or hell is bad, or that there even is a satin!? maybe the people that were in excorsisms are just crazy! we never will know and the best thing we can do is question and question, and NEVER ever ever say that something is certain. for example, in christian churches they say that jesus comes and blesses body and blood of christ.. what proof do they have? they say that a bush on fire talked to moses. what proof do they have? how do they know anything AT ALL. maybe moses was driven MAD! maybe he was really hungry and seeing things! there will never be answers to these questions and we may never find out.

and sorry for that abnormally long answer!

- heather dee, age 14

Answer 10

Human life is to enquire about the spiritual soul (us), the Supreme Spirit (God) and the so powerful material energy (Nature).
Who are we? We are spiritual soul.
Who is God? He is the Supreme soul, He is formless and He has form.
What is our deal with him? It is to learn how to approach Him and love Him and meet him, face to face.
What is Nature? Called Maya in Sanskrit, Illusion, it is to drive us to illusion - Illusion happens when there is no knowledge of the self, thus we identify our self with our physical body, with our mind or with our intelligence.
Our aim is to stop sansara (birth and death) by realising we are spiritual soul and approach the Lord and meet Him.

Answer 11

Cognito ergo sum ( I am thinking, therefore I am ). The meaning is simply to live the life you have and get the best out of it. That is why you have got it. Good is a creation of the human mind. The different Goods in different Religions are exactly as they have been made to.