What is the meaning of life?

evince said:
Then pay your taxes that help others and quit whining snowflake


And stop living in a sea of lies
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You're an idiot.

I've paid taxes since I was 14 years old.

Not you though, you've spent your life leeching tax dollars through welfare.
 
I can tell you this- The meaning of life is not about Donald Trump wanting to be the Dictator OF THE WORLD!

I think the idea of life is to individually and collectively try and make it a better place while we are here, and leave it in a better place when we are gone.

This does not require knowing how the universe was formed, or who formed it!

And it does not require a place in heaven, as some kind of reward for us when we die, or require believing in some GOD that may not even exist, in order to make your life better, or even make life better for others, as well, while we still have life.

SO, for me, the meaning of life, is to give my life some meaning, while I am still here, and to realize and appreciate that all lives have meaning, while realizing LIFE IS NOT JUST ABOUT ME AND WHAT I WANT OUT OF IT!
 
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BidenPresident said:
What if I had to give a positive answer? I sometimes wonder about this but nothing ever sticks. Every time I consider the question I have to start again from nothing. It’s just happened again. This time it strikes me that the answer ‘It has no meaning’ isn’t negative or disappointing. It’s celebratory. It’s the only answer that grasps the value of life and the nature of its value – apart from being true.

https://drb.ie/articles/just-live/

Academic philosophers love telling people to stop asking questions.
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The meaning of life is to learn and never stop asking questions. IMO.
 
BidenPresident said:
What if I had to give a positive answer? I sometimes wonder about this but nothing ever sticks. Every time I consider the question I have to start again from nothing. It’s just happened again. This time it strikes me that the answer ‘It has no meaning’ isn’t negative or disappointing. It’s celebratory. It’s the only answer that grasps the value of life and the nature of its value – apart from being true.

https://drb.ie/articles/just-live/

Academic philosophers love telling people to stop asking questions.
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The Zen answer: To come into tune with the Universe.
 
Jordan Petersons answer: Through purpose, doing something useful with your life....very near the Christian life of service answer.
 
In antiquity humans were referred to as “mortals,” which meant that they were destined not only to die but also to suffer loss, misfortune, and disaster. By comparison with the immortal gods, even the loftiest mortals are losers in the long run (as Achilles realizes in Hades).

In his book In Praise of Failure, the philosopher and essayist Costica Bradatan reminds us that we flash into existence between “two instantiations of nothingness,” namely the nothingness before we were born and the one after we die.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/20...ruins-in-praise-of-failure/?lp_txn_id=1530334
 
christiefan915 said:
The meaning of life is to learn and never stop asking questions. IMO.
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I think that's part of it. But why learn and ask questions? What the point of having knowledge, what's the end game of asking questions?

To me it comes back to liberation: liberation from ignorance, liberation from the world of appearance, liberation from moral, material, and psychological slavery.
 
Cypress said:
I think that's part of it. But why learn and ask questions? What the point of having knowledge, what's the end game of asking questions?

To me it comes back to liberation: liberation from ignorance, liberation from the world of appearance, liberation from moral, material, and psychological slavery.
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I'm a reincarnation guy.

To me, the purpose of learning is just that - to learn. Each life has specific lessons that we come to learn through experience we can only get on this physical plane. We each choose different lessons depending on whatever gaps we might have in our knowledge. By the time we roll around to our last incarnation, we've experienced basically everything we can here. And thus we gain a sense of empathy, love & compassion for all people & situations, and we're ready to move on to the next plane (also a plane of learning, but the lessons aren't as harsh as they can be here). It's like earth is a colllege that we eventually graduate from.

Which is actually pretty consistent w/ the idea of liberation as you describe it there.
 
Being alive is a joyful thing


Learning how to keep the joy increasing for your self is to help increase the joy for others


It’s a simple plan that allows you to believe a plethora of other things


It’s kinda what Jesus was trying to teach people along with his personal religious beliefs


He was a good human being
 
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