Does life make sense? What is the meaning of life?

Question

Can you site a good example to make it clear?

Answer 1

Why do you expect life to make sense? and indeed, who's idea of 'sense' is it supposed to comply with?

If it did follow some sensible, defined pattern... wouldn't it get very boring?

as far as the 'meaning' is concerned, I've spent two years qualifying in the Metaphysical Society (U.K.), many years studying religions, and the mystics, and a lifetime exploring...

...so ask me again in a decade :)))

meanwhile... try to remember to enjoy your life... what you do, how you live, the people you spend time with. Opinions differ on whether we get one shot at life, or reincarnate many times. Whoever is right, it's worth ensuring you enjoy this one. Then, while you live you can explore what the meaning of life is for you.

Answer 2

full enjoy

Answer 3

Ironically the meaning of life is to live.

I believe in evolution so this may not fly with some people...

We started out as amino acids which then formed micro tubules. This was the foundation of a cell. Through a process where nature brings things together in a symmetrical pattern, DNA, among other stuff, was formed, inside the micro tubule, to make a cell. This happened over millions of years. At some point these cells formed an organism that was better at surviving. The other organisms died out from the lack of that ability to survive. Then even later at some point one of the organisms acquired a desire to survive. This gave way to even better survival odds. Needless to say, we are part of that organism and we have the survival instinct in us. Sorry I don't think theres some higher purpose for life its just a product of millions of years of the existence of our planet. But hey i'm not complaining..life is good!

Answer 4

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 h**l

...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 se

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Life doesn't make sense in that there is no logic or meaning to it. Life just IS. Its existence. Life doesn't have any meaning or any point; THAT in itself IS the point. You have to learn to accept there is no point.... if and when you do, it can bestow you with tremendous freedom. There is no logic, life doesn't follow any rules of "fair" play. Bad things happen to essentially good people and vice versa. There seems to be very little natural justice. Life is about accepting the things you can not change, and doing what you can about the rest of it.  

Answer 7

Love all always. Do this and you will be one of the greatest in this life and the next.

Answer 8

This is the first and the last life and whosoever has been sent on this earth has been sent to achieve a taqrget and very few people know what is their target in life and that is the reason most of the people come and go.What are we enjoying today, those are the gifts of talented people to us.

Answer 9

life probably doesni't make sense. maybe it does? we can't tell, and we don't need to. Until someone finds out what it is . . . well, we can just sit back and wait for an answer.