Is this why we can't find the answer to the question, (What is the meaning of life).?

Question

Because there is no meaning or point and that we just can't lIve with that because the drive and mechanics of nature won't allow use to. So we create words like, business, humanity and after life as coping mechanisms. Just where did this adage come from for example.

The devils best trick is convincing man that he doesn't exist.?

Answer 1

your *** is here just to reproduce thats it, so gods bad joke doesnt come to an end

Answer 2

we are here for the sole purpose of worshiping God

Answer 3

You're asking two different questions here.

The second one is fairly simple to answer.  Religion & the devil are man made.  Call them coping devices if you like, as they do provide some people with justifications for the most heinous & barbarous acts of mankind.  So if you can get people to believe the devil does indeed exist, by saying it's the trick of Satan to make you believe he doesn't, then why not?  While it may be referred to circuitous logic, that's of no concern to many.  

As to your first question, we all have to find our purpose in life.  For some, it's inventions > Bell, Edison, Ford, Einstein, Jobs, & many, many more.  For others, it's more about amassing wealth > Ambani, Gates, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, & many, many more.  

In a free society, you are the master of your own destiny.  Choose wisely.

Answer 4

i think that all of these things just reflect the power of god...this weak "ballony" thing who is named human and can be killed by many ways reachs a very high levels of social and educational knowledege..so as a muslim i think the meaning of life is to act good to other humans..control your self and develope your abilities..and worship your creator and thank him for everything.

Answer 5

The meaning of life is what we achieve in our life, e.g bringing up children, bringing help to those in need! could also be said for the opposite!!  can you live with that thought?.imernater knows best.

Answer 6

The meaning of life is 42.....

Answer 7

You see that's the interesting thing. We can not really know if life was created by any great entity or simply out of sheer chance happening. Both answers seem to have legitimate arguments.

First, the idea that there is a God has it's strengths and flaws. One of the most convincing arguments would be that the laws of physics are so exact and fine tuned that even if they changed in the smallest amount, it would be absolutely impossible for atoms to stay together, let alone complex life forms to emerge. Another, important thing to consider is that the conditions on earth are fine tuned and absolutely perfect for life to exist. If anything was changed (i.e. distance from the sun, size of our sun, atmosphere, location in our galaxy, etc.) at all, complex life forms would never be able to exist on earth.

However, the fact that life is completely random and happened by chance is also a very legitimate argument. I mean when you think about it, unlikely things happen everyday. For example, in every single day you make a multitude of tiny decisions that change the course of the future, no matter how little. The chance that your day ends up a certain way is highly improbable when you think of the various combination of choices you could have made. It leaves you with a nearly infinite number of futures for just one day! However, what is bound to happen is for time to go on and for one of those nearly infinite futures to occur. In that way, it seems completely rational that life exists on earth.

If you think about both of sides of the question maybe you can decide for yourself whether life has meaning or none at all.

Good Luck! :)

Answer 8

There is no "meaning" of life. I say, while we're alive, we just live to society's standards to become successful.

Answer 9

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

Other

...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")

...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general

...to participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of