What is the meaning of life?
At The Ultimate Question Of Life, The Universe, And Everything we try to answer the question surrounding life and its meaning with your responses, our blogs, and narratives from those who have answered the question for themselves. There are several different forums and every few days we rotate some of our more intriguing answers to forum questions below. If you have a thought, please share it with us in the forum discussion – you can register or just post as a guest!
Your Recent Answers:
Post a new response – See All Responses
Each morning most of us, through force of habit will get up and go to work or school, but you have a choice NOT to do those things. Ofcourse, if you didn’t go to work you could get fired, and if you didn’t go to school you would miss out on taking that important math test or homework assignment.
Each of us have the Free Will to make our own choices.
A student at school has to follow the rules governing the school or he/she will have penalties to answer for, but even at school a person can choose NOT to accept the rules. And go at his or her own Free Will.
Free Will is the abliity to choose for one’s self and accept the consequences for their actions.
The meaning of life, in my view is Procreation & Free Will.
—————————–
First of all, Man, like all things, has two consistencies: the physical and the nonphysical, or, the mundane and the sublime; the physical, or mundane, consistency constitutes the flesh, and the flesh contains the vital organ-systems necessary to physical, or mundane, life – which, in Man, are the heart-lung-belly system, the musculature-skeleton system, and the brain-nervetree system (take note here that these number three); the nonphysical, or sublime, consistency constitutes the body (which is the nonphysical counterpart to the physical body), and the body contains the vital organ-systems necessary to nonphysical, or sublime, life – which, in Man, are the the soul (the corresponding nonphysical counterpart to the heart-lung-belly system), the spirit (the corresponding nonphysical counterpart to the musculature-skeleton system) and the mind (the corresponding nonphysical counterpart to the brain-nervetree system).
—————————–
- You may have heard – but have you SEEN, EXPERIENCED within yourself (and without as well) the POWER of God?
Based on your response, obviously not – but I actually hope that you have and aren’t admitting it or will someday. I most certainly have. And I believe that the indescribable experience of “otherness”, of something more – isn’t merely wishful thinking. It isn’t delusion. It’s God. Like when you’ve had a great cigar, or meal, or sex, or see the beauty (and perhaps even lack therof) in life, nature, the universe – I KNOW, from my subjective experience, that I have SEEN God through those wonderful experiences.
—————————–
I have a firm belief that the answer to the meaning of life is 42. Before you say anything, I KNOW that Douglas Adams said 42 means nothing and was just a simple idea thought up while he was looking out the window, BUT, if you spend your time wondering what the ‘meaning of life’ is, 42 fills that gap. Once you have that question answered, you can move on to more important matters.
—————————–
The opinions/thoughts/excretions of others is only a indication of where you are and what surrounds you. There is only one voice/opinion/life and that is yours. You are the only constant in your existence. Believe in yourself. Look into yourself, hear your thoughts, don’t judge what you see or hear. If you don’t like it put it aside for another time (part of non-judgement). Creation/God, what you like, has only one resource for creation, it self. So by definition you are not beyond, different, defective, hopeless, etc. You are looking for someone else’s voice to fill the void created by dismissing your own. How can life be confusing if by definition we are life?
—————————–
Posted in forum – What is the meaning of life?
Posted by 42!.
Filed under Meaning of Life
Posted on Wed, 10 June 2009 at 8:01 am
Subscribe to RSS 2.0 feed.
"The meaning of life resides in joy and the feelings of harmony connected to happiness; without happiness, life loses meaning. Happiness is at the heart of our lives and our demand for a meaning."
A
gazillion different studies tell us that people who meditate everyday are far
happier than those who do not. I guess they are also healthier, live longer, and
(get this) are smarter! It seems those who meditate have a sense of well-being
is much higher than that of non-meditators. In fact, meditators are so much
healthier that there are even some insurance companies charging lower premiums
for those that meditate than for the general population. So why doesn't everyone
meditate?
Thank you for allowing anyone to post their own definition of the meaning of life. I think that each of us find our own path and own meaning to life’s biggest question.
04 Apr 09 at 3:34 pm #I believe the answer is 42
04 Apr 09 at 3:34 pm #Jesus has given me pride and life purpose. Serving him is the meaning of my life.
04 Apr 09 at 3:35 pm #Mount everest, a giraffe, the distant nebula or even garbage have a purpose for their existance. If you feel otherwise, then you are steering yourself away from finding out the meaning of your own existance.
05 Apr 09 at 4:28 am #I Think the meaning of life is a lesson planned by God to seperate the pure from the good and from the evil. We need to guide others in the right path. Life is a crossroad.
07 Apr 09 at 4:11 pm #the meaning of life in my opinion is to have fun, and fall in love.
19 Apr 09 at 8:06 am #If there is no meaning to life then why do we exist and what is the purpose of us existing? The answer to what is the meaning of life is for humans to exist.
26 Apr 09 at 12:19 pm #Hi, good post. I have been thinking about this topic,so thanks for writing. I’ll definitely be coming back to your blog.
03 May 09 at 3:48 pm #i think you are focusing on the wrong thing here.
06 May 09 at 9:58 am #you talk about what happens outside of life (such as what happens before birth and after death) and you use this to argue that life is pointless. but what is outside life is not life, so it cannot make life pointless.
to determine whether or not life has purpose, you have to look at life – rather than looking at our state before birth and after death.
Hi. In the future I’m going to keep here links to their sites. But I do not worry about the sites where my link is removed. So if you do not want to see a mountain of links, simply delete this message. After 2 weeks, I will come back and check.
12 May 09 at 1:37 am #Pretty nice post. I just found your blog and wanted to say
23 Jun 09 at 7:40 pm #that I have really liked reading your posts. In any case
I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you write again soon!
i see the meaning to life is that you live life to the full the way you want, not to what people expect you to live up to
16 Jul 09 at 1:36 am #The meaning of life is Exprience. Life is also seeing the Light because Death is darkness
30 Sep 09 at 8:32 am #[...] everything really boils down to is what your own interpretation of the meaning of life is. One anthropology professor, which taught in the 19th century, believed that free will was the [...]
17 Oct 09 at 1:01 am #well, i kinda agree with scott that the meaning of life is to exist…nothing more than that. However, i would like to add, we live to die… It may sounds down, but its true, we all live to die but at the same time we are trying to change the fact… LOL, but all the best we can do is still, die…with glory…
13 Nov 09 at 3:41 am #I like having lots of opinions here.
Everybody should be able to share what they think.
08 Dec 09 at 12:49 pm #However, i am one of the apparently rare few who take life at face value and don’t see a meaning or need for one…
But Douglas Adams sure made a few philosophical breakthroughs.
The meaning of life isn’t to cross a busy street and find you made it to the other side. It’s not to make so much money you have to pay to get rid of it. It’s not to get that congragulatory pat on the back from your super-intendant. I think, it’s to, well, enjoy it, get stoned, mess around, listen to music ALOT, fall in love, do things the way YOU wanna do, nobody exists in this life but yourself.
think about it
16 Dec 09 at 9:02 am #I believe that the meaning of life is us. We have to believe in ourselves. Trust are own paths to the future and answers to our questions. Don’t follow the path that people tell you to that you know you won’t enjoy and want. We have to cherish each moment with thought and hope because we cannot live forever. Achieve goals, achieve dreams – make life what you want it to be – because you only get one life. Every one of us has a day when we would die, but it is the happiness of our lives that we remember when we are dying that makes life truly great.
09 Jan 10 at 4:20 pm #We need to guide others in the right path. Life is a crossroad.
12 Feb 10 at 7:14 am #nice share….i will try your tips
Yes, Its very informative link i get more benefit thanks
16 Feb 10 at 4:08 am #Hard to answer. One thing really attracts me. Do things which you feel will satisfy you the most. No god nothing, just what can keep u happy.
27 Feb 10 at 10:40 am #i belive we should not look at it as what is the meaning of life? but as what is the meaning of me living today? when you look at it in the long run, you can not actually find an answer. the reason for this is that the meaning is not actually clear. however if will look at it as the meaning of today then we actually have a meaning to that day. for instance i wake up to go to school everyday, to see my friends, to learn. that is the meaning for that day. once that day is passed move on to the next. by doing this not only is it easier to live life, it is also easier to understand it all.
16 Mar 10 at 11:58 am #Life is gift of God the meaning of life is understanding towards others, to learn other cultures as we are personalities of our owen, to be happy within our self’s.Is what makes you happy within might be watching your dog run across a park or to see birds flying in the skys.or even seeing or children playing theses are moments in our lives that might be shared or enjoyed on our owen. these bring enjoy happiness within thats my understing.
03 Apr 10 at 11:17 am #Are we not all the same to speak and hear to touch to feel to cry to laugh are these not what makes the meaning of life to show and understand like the sea that hits the shore wave after wave no end no begining just being.
03 Apr 10 at 12:24 pm #Good, thanks! Maybe you can do a follow up post about it?
16 Jun 10 at 11:03 am #Good, thanks! Maybe you can do a follow up post about it?
16 Jun 10 at 11:04 am #I believe the meaning of life to be what i thought about when my dad passed. Its knowing that it’s the things that cant be replace that give it meaning. Loving and letting the ones you love know that everyday. Making memories that will last a life time and embracing them with all of your heart.It’s about living in the now, and forgetting about the past. It’s about realizing that it’s the small everyday things that will always count. But most of all it’s about not taking what God has givin you for granit. Because today, tomorrow, or even the next hour is not promised.
18 Jun 10 at 7:33 pm #Philosophers have been pondering this question for centuries……and have still been unable to answer it fully…..as humans it is normal for us to wonder…but perhaps that is the point….that we are able to wonder…a lion doesn’t wonder why he is here..nor does a leaf on a tree or a fish in the ocean..God gave human beings the ability to ask questions about their own existence such as “why are we here?” and “what is the meaning of life?” and maybe just maybe that is the meaning…to have the knowledge to ask but not to be able to answer it ourselves..I believe that that is up to the Lord and when we cross over to the next plane we will have our answer…we are on Earth for a blink when you think about the fact that the afterlife is an eternity…the best we can do is love one another and that may sound trite nd hokey but it is a nice way to think about it…
18 Jun 10 at 8:30 pm #First, people must respect him. Must get along with people, you should have the union in a draw. We must love and respect. We must be understanding. We must empathize. We must not break each other, we should not worry.
21 Jun 10 at 8:23 am #Most importantly, we must always support each other.
A really difficult question.I would propose two answers. First the real meaning of life is to earn an honourable death. The second is that there is no meaning to life except in what we learn and experiance as we live it. We are complete in ourselves we don’t need another person to complete us but we do need people to allow us to experience love, regret, sorrow and friendship.
26 Jun 10 at 4:36 am #The meaning of life? When we create something, we do so for a purpose: beauty, function, fun, etc… Humankind was created for a purpose. We must look to the creator for our purpose, our meaning. If we look to the Bible, as the creator’s word, and historical relevance, we find that we WERE created for a purpose; His purpose. We were also granted free will. We can choose his purpose, or our own purpose, if we reject His. His purpose was for relationship with Him. That is the ultimate meaning of life. If you don’t like His meaning, you can choose your own, which will not be as fulfilling, but none-the-less, what you desire. There are benefits to choosing His purpose. It is not worth it to everyone, which shows His great love, that He does not demand that we follow His purpose.
09 Jul 10 at 11:34 am #