What Is The Meaning Of Life?

Originally posted by JesusLovesYou
No. I don't agree. Outside of a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ life doesn't make sense, let alone have meaning.

Death was not God's original plan. It's the effect of sin. You and the rest of the world were created to have a great, face-to-face relationship with our Creator.

^ before even reading, let me guess:

To love and worship God and to follow the teachings of Jesus?

Yup, pretty much. Called it. Face-to-face relationship with our Creator? I thought our faces would melt off if we saw Him... how are we supposed to see him face-to-face? lol

And what's the purpouse of having such a relationship?

Originally posted by JesusLovesYou
No. I don't agree. Outside of a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ life doesn't make sense, let alone have meaning.

Death was not God's original plan. It's the effect of sin. You and the rest of the world were created to have a great, face-to-face relationship with our Creator.

Originally posted by Adam Grimes
And what's the purpouse of having such a relationship?

Maybe God just isn't into One Night Stands.

A belief in a God is just a fear of death. Not to be taken seriously. The religious are welcome to it of course, as a hippy is welcome to star signs and what not. But I wouldn't let people who believe in the Zodiac run a country or hold any relevant power at all.

My meaning of life is improvement. To become better and better. As has been the trend with all life on earth. If there is anything even in existence that resembles a God it exists in our future at the pinnacle of improvement, not in the delusions of a confused and decadent past when we didn't know better.

I applaud and share your goal of self-improvement, while disagreeing with your complete contempt for anything connected to religion.

Originally posted by Emperordmb
I applaud and share your goal of self-improvement, while disagreeing with your complete contempt for anything connected to religion.

Yeah sorry about that. I sound very callous. I have nothing against those of practice religion to themselves. My contempt is wrought for those who use these superstitions to control others. Sometimes entire countries.

Originally posted by Dramatic Gecko
Yeah sorry about that. I sound very callous. I have nothing against those of practice religion to themselves. My contempt is wrought for those who use these superstitions to control others. Sometimes entire countries.

I do think sometimes people ***** about religion as a weasel word for certain political issues to try and invalidate the other side. Take the abortion debate for example, there are some who argue that pro-life position is by default unconstitutional because "separation of church and state" even though the pro-life position can be held secularly and even though I rarely hear citations to religious authority when seeing people argue the pro-life position. If you ask me, it's oppressive to atheists to declare the position of pro-life atheists (such as my two best friends) invalid just because those positions happen to be shared by those affiliated with a specific religion. Or for example some feminists arguing against the existence of the institution of marriage will reject it as a purely patriarchal construct with no basis other than religion, without taking an objective eye to the consensual nature of marriage in western nations and the benefit the institution has brought to society as a whole.

The meaning of Life is Free Will and consciousness.

What are you supposed to do with your life however, that's a meaning you have to figure for yourself.

Originally posted by Josh_Alexander
The meaning of Life is Free Will and consciousness.

And free will as a concept sort of loses its edge and luster should the universe wind up being a simulation. Or 1 in an infinite number of cyclical universe that wind up the same every go around. If either (or both) of those are the case, then we're just going about as if we have free will. Unaware that every thought and action is part of our programming and/or destined to happen an inifinite amount of times in an infinite amount of realities.

Philosophy is a f*cking bummer. But I've typed that an infinite number of times already, so what do I know?

You make your own meaning. That's always been, and always will be the answer.

Originally posted by Rockydonovang
You make your own meaning. That's always been, and always will be the answer.

For once, Rockydoneawang says something smart. 👆

"Life doesn't give us purpose. We give life purpose." - Barry Allen, aka The Flash, Blackest Night #8

Originally posted by Rockydonovang
You make your own meaning. That's always been, and always will be the answer.

False. The meaning of life is 42.

To die, Mister Anderson.

I find great promise in life if that means anything to you.
Make a promise tonight and try to fullfill it and don't ever sell yourself short.
It will be cut short on account of the elect.

I can't seem to come up with my own meaning. When I was full of testosterone it was to achieve power, but now that I'm on anti-androgen therapy I can't seem to come up with any rational reason why life should be pursued.

To live happily while making the previous generation better than the last ..

Originally posted by Syren
This, in a sense, summarizes all other questions asked. It is usually understood as: "What are the highest values, the Supreme Goals which I should try to achieve?". We stress that every human being must freely set those goals for himself or herself. The Supreme Goal which we choose derives logically from our cybernetic world view: to make a constructive contribution to the evolution of humanity, in order to maximize our long-term chances of survival (immortality). In essence, the 'meaning of life' is to increase evolutionary fitness. Do you agree?