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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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
Although I'm relatively inexperienced in life experiences, I will form a meaning from what I have experienced thus far. To me, the meaning of life is to acquire knowledge and to use that knowledge to contribute to society. However, I am somewhat inclined to believe that life has no meaning. In other words, people give life meaning. But I am more content with the former.
Carpe diem!
" meaning of life' - - I couldn't find it yet.
When asked this question, someone once responded: "I am here to do good to others. What the h*ll the others are here for, I have no idea."
Sometimes I wonder if our raison d'etre for life, is to figure it out.
Or, to adapt John Lennon's quip on the subject - "Life is what happens while we are trying to understand why it happens '
The most uncertain thing I own!One second I have it with its full colour,the other second...its obscure or may cease to exist!
since i'm a Xian, i'm going to have to defer to the Bible's book of ecclesiastes, which answers that very question.
actually, even in the Xian circles, not many know of this, the answer to the meaning of life is revealed: the answer is to serve God by following what he says in the good book:
12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
http://www.online-literature.com/bible/Ecclesiastes/
My meaning is to be happy and let others be happy...
well i wonder if i qualify, with my 17 years of life experience (filled with confusions and silly mistakes), to answer :p .
btw, are we looking for an "aim" or a "meaning" in here? cuz i think they're slightly different from each other, my answer, like the others, might make them sound quite like the same thing though :) .
So...
Meaning of life to me: Life means the joy of being what u are, the recollections of the yesterdays, the anticipations for all the tomorrows. Life is in the dewdrop on the leaf, in the smile of a child, the delicacy of a food etc etc. Life is meant to live. So the meaning of life is living it. And with joyfullness.
Aim in life for me: To live it with Life. Like bon Jovi, i wanna "live while i'm alive" :p .
To respond as intelligently, humanely and/or creatively to that which is immediately before you.
To experience pain, when it comes your way, as deeply and truthfully as you can, the better to experience joy when that comes your way.
To be the transit for future life as others were the transit for yours.
To balance the time you spend wondering whether you are doing right, with doing what you know it is right to do.
To accept love gratefully when it is offered you and to love the other even when she or he cannot or will not love you back.
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Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin
I don't know how I could improve on that.
For me, the older I get the less time I spend analyzing the true meaning of life and I just try to make the most of things. I have a family and there is a great deal of life meaning in that.
My meaning in life is not worrying about the meaning of life. :p
My meaning of life is: to find meaning.
To stay myself without drowning in the chaos of society.
To confirm my existence through kindness.
To fight the invisibility that washes over me and turns me into a pale shadow of myself.
My meaning of life is: to find meaning in life.
The Koran...
mmm...>> well, my own philosophy is always changing, but recently, its been this::::
life is essentially pointless, but that does not mean it doesnt have to have meaning; what meaning life has, depends on the person