What is your meaning of life?

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Originally Posted by Bakiryu

Ok. I've been reading philosophy and the question yammers on and on, I don't know THE meaning of life but what is YOUR meaning of life?


.Jin

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The meaning of life? There is no meaning at all. Life has no meaning. If you seek a meaning in life you will get none. Life is for living, and just living. Meaning is an ideology and if you hunt for it, you will get never and none.

Life is like drinking, eating, sleeping, sharing and enjoying and letting others enjoy it.

If you keep on searching the meaning which is nonexistent in point of fact you will get lost in a whirlpool of confusion. Do you know any body who has really got the meaning of life? You may say the Buddha got it, Jesus got it. Are you sure about it?

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Originally Posted by blazeofglory

The meaning of life? There is no meaning at all. Life has no meaning. If you seek a meaning in life you will get none. Life is for living, and just living. Meaning is an ideology and if you hunt for it, you will get never and none.

Life is like drinking, eating, sleeping, sharing and enjoying and letting others enjoy it.

If you keep on searching the meaning which is nonexistent in point of fact you will get lost in a whirlpool of confusion. Do you know any body who has really got the meaning of life? You may say the Buddha got it, Jesus got it. Are you sure about it?

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Does it say THE meaning of life? No, it doesn't. It says the meaning of YOUR life, does your life have to meaning, blaze?

Well, to me life is a serious event, or it is of serious events but it is like a game,

the game always has rules, ways, and participants, it is like a very big land, having many and many ways, (good and bad ways), and most important, it has rules that govern life, that govern our behavior, so if we walk through the good ways and follow the rules, we will be happy and at the end we will be immortals in Paradise, but if we walked through bad or wrong ways, we will be tired and at the end we will have the (game over), and be immortals in Hell, of course if we did not woke up from being on the wrong way, and rules are given by Allah (God)

What I mean is that life cannot be meaningless, there must be a reason of why do we exist, so life is a level that leads us to a higher level, which is the immortality, (in Paradise or on Hell).

thank you Bakiryu for ths topic.

Life is just bigger that any explaination !

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Originally Posted by Bakiryu

Ok. I've been reading philosophy and the question yammers on and on, I don't know THE meaning of life but what is YOUR meaning of life?


.Jin

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I haVE NONE.

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Originally Posted by pinkmoon

Well, to me life is a serious event, or it is of serious events but it is like a game,

the game always has rules, ways, and participants, it is like a very big land, having many and many ways, (good and bad ways), and most important, it has rules that govern life, that govern our behavior, so if we walk through the good ways and follow the rules, we will be happy and at the end we will be immortals in Paradise, but if we walked through bad or wrong ways, we will be tired and at the end we will have the (game over), and be immortals in Hell, of course if we did not woke up from being on the wrong way, and rules are given by Allah (God)

What I mean is that life cannot be meaningless, there must be a reason of why do we exist, so life is a level that leads us to a higher level, which is the immortality, (in Paradise or on Hell).

thank you Bakiryu for ths topic.

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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This claim is based on nothing but faith, which extraordinary only in that it is extraordinarily weak evidence. How can you say that life must have meaning? I believe in what I see, and what I see is this existence, this life, this moment. If we live our lives as if this existence is nothing but a step on a ladder, then we have completely wasted our time here. We have completely invalidated our lives. What is important is not what happens after we die (because most likely there is nothing) but what you do with your life now. Live life, and be prosperous.

Life is indeed a game, but there are no absolute rules made by some higher being. There is no supernatural punishment, at least none that I can see. It is up to us to make the rules. It is up to us to create and abide by our own morals. Now, we've done a fairly good job creating them, but we haven't yet done enough to abide by them.

...Whew. That was an intellectual exercise. I'm reluctantly posting this, in the hope that the backlash will not be too severe.
Be gentle,
Rakthor

"...life cannot be meaningless, there must be a reason of why do we exist."

IF there "must" be a reason for existence, both that imperative itself and the final reason cannot come from existence itself, but apparently has its origin in the human demand for meaning. That this seems to be the case is shown by the historical attempts to provide meaning and the different conclusions that have been drawn, none of which have universal assent.
It seems as strained to demand that existence even HAS an ethical meaning as it does to demand that nature be "good." And if life has "rules" that inevitably lead to bliss, it is difficult to find agreement as to what these rules are; what kind of game of chess can be played if both white and black follow different rules for the movement of the pieces? Even to liken existence (or human life) to a "game" seems to beg the question.

My life gets its meaning from the following things:

Red wine
Guinness
Pizza
Literature
Music
Cigarettes
Sunshine
Relaxation
Contemplation
Family

Nothing too profound, really.

There is no meaning/sense in life but the "constructed" one [... "l’existence précède l’essence" ...]; consequently, there is no meaning in my life unless I choose to "construct" the meaning of my life in order to, I don't know, consolate myself, bring some 'order' to my life, or whatever else are the reasons why most people desire to "construct" some meaning, or to run into various directions with various schemes of already "constructed" meaning (read: religions, schools of thought, etc).

Well - I don't. In fact, I don't even care about constructing a meaning; when I was younger I used to go through phases of belonging to various schools of thought and philosophies, but with time I abandoned them all, figuring that, essentially, it's all together rather pointless. Now I take it all as a good joke, and I ceased to take life very seriously. And guess what? I'm happy exactly because of that.

Meaning is always a human phenomena, and it seems that the search for the meaning to one's lived existence is one of the cardinal properties of man separating him from beasts and other living things.
As Sartre would say, one is free to choose one's own meaning; even if one chooses NOT to construct a meaning, that is in itself a choice about meaning.

Leave a legacy. Be forever true to yourself. Experience as much as you can in a balance of quantity and quality.
Learn,learn and never stop learning! Or loving. Or wanting to live.

Hell,make your own meaning. Live life just to make a meaning of it! But the above is what I have gotten from it,so far.

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Originally Posted by jgweed

As Sartre would say, one is free to choose one's own meaning; even if one chooses NOT to construct a meaning, that is in itself a choice about meaning.

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Right; one is free to make choice, and the only thing one cannot choose is whether to choose or not, because even choosing not to choose is a choice in itself. :D

I think the phrase "meaning of life" is misleading. "Purpose of life" is a much better termonology in this particular discussion, and Trystan put it best. Living should be an unconscious decision.

Personally, my meaning of life is to get by as painlessly as possible. As a fascist, of course I would like to convert the world to an international order, but it'll take greater powers than me to make that sort of global change. I am simply a supporter in the masses.

Theists might say that the purpose of life is dictated by a supreme being, but they say this without the backing of logic. Their opinions would be tolerable if they weren't so dangerous; religious zealots have a tendency to inflict their false beliefs on others, often using detestable methods.

my meaning to life is to show that no matter how far you've fallen, or how low you are in your life. there is always time to look up.

Dear Readers,

I concur with Dori .We find meaning from our experiences.Of late after much reading,thinking and wondering about life,I feel the need to feel for meaning itself is obsolate.Perhaps suffering in different forms,including material comforts( One way of suffering),is the meaning of life.I have also arrived at the answer to 'Why?',in this suffering.Just to set the goal that we are to reach to where there is no suffering which is for absolute oneness with God.No more and no less,is the meaning of life.