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Answer by mars
Submitted on 7/17/2003
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If your brain was taken out of your head and kept alive in a jar, you would be like God from the point of view of those you dream of. God is neither good nor evil, but the sum total of everything. All existance is an illusion. Matter, space, energy, and time are not real. We know a world of physical constraints. These are not real. We are not real. Instead, we are all part of one eternal consiousness subjectively experiencing itself. It's deeply nested cascading cosmos of figments of imagination residing in the mind's eye of another imaginary figure. Ultimately, though, we are one very extremely schizophrenic being with an infinitely vast mind which has no constraints except the ones it imposes on itself. Appreciate the great Creator and all of creation just because you can. Your thoughts are God's thoughts and you deserve to give yourself a pat on the back.

Answer by Electrifier
Submitted on 8/18/2003
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The meaning of life is to find something you love doing, and someone you love being with. In my opinion any answer involving god is superficial. If there is a god, and the one Christian choose to worship is the right one, why should I be so lucky as to have the opportunity to worship him, why should I be sent to heaven because I was born into a Christians family in the US, I would rather burn in hell than see innocent people suffer because of fate and cultural diversity. Don't tell me that they could have converted, that is such bs, and so artificial. Plus why would I spend all my life preparing for death, sounds a little pessimistic to me. I am in no way trying to convert anyone. I just seems that Christianity is the status quo, life is simply a series of choices or actions and consequences. An endless string of predetermined fate. Sure we may have free will but that will has already been chosen our path is there, and although we choose it, it has already decided. A twist of this idea is the image of a glass falling to ground. Like the glass is on a path to smash into the ground, we are on a path to death, and humanity to an end, all though no one knows where the glass will land, or how we will die, that is simply a result of choices whether made by us or outside factors. Thus life is never really here.

Answer by hardcore
Submitted on 9/11/2003
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What is Life? Life isn't about keeping score. It's not about how many friends you have or how accepted you are.Not about if you have plans this weekend or if you're alone. It isn't about who you're dating, who you used to date, how many people you've dated, or if you haven't been with anyone at all. It isn't about who you have kissed, It isn't about who your family is or how much money they have or what kind of car you drive. Or where you are sent to school. It's not about how beautiful or ugly you are. Or what clothes you wear, what shoes you have on, Or what kind of music you listen to. It's not about if your hair is blonde, red, black, or brown, Or if your skin is too light or too dark. Not about what grades you get how smart you are, how smart everybody else thinks you are, or how smart standardized tests say you are. It's not about what clubs you're in or how good you are at "your" sport. It's not about representing your whole being on a piece of paper and seeing who will "accept the written you." Life just isn't. Life is about who you love and who you hurt. It's about who you make happy or unhappy purposely. It's about keeping or betraying trust. It's about friendship, used as a sanctity or as a weapon. It's about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening. It's about starting rumors and contributing to petty gossip. It's about what judgments you pass and why. And who your judgments are spread to. It's about who you've ignored with full control and intention. It's about jealousy, fear, ignorance, and revenge. It's about carrying inner hate and love, letting it grow and spreading it. But most of all, it's about using your life to touch or poison other people's hearts in such a way that could have never occurred alone.Only you choose the way those hearts are affected, and those choices are what life's all about.

Answer by I know!
Submitted on 9/13/2003
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We are not here on earth for our own pleasure, neither are we here to punish or judge others. We all are reincarnated over and over again for only one purpose, and that is to fill our souls with knowledge. Knowledge that will in the long run complete life's puzzle. So that the day that God calls on us, we will be ready to face the life here after. The Bible says, what was, will be again. Nothing on earth is or will ever be new. History only repeats itself. The quicker we as humans understand this concept the better for us all. Spiritualy we need to be as pure as ever, we can only achieve that through the mistakes we make and learn from it. Life is about being Spiritual, understanding how to purify our soul and mind and worship God the One and Only! We are here to build our spiritual soul stronger. What ever we lacked in the previous life, we will learn and experience in this life time and so on. Dejavu??!! No, it's because you've been here before. Luck?! No, but intension. Everything we go through in life, we go through to strengthen us for what is still to come. We are all here to complete the circle of life and without God and faith there will be no circle at all. That is what life is all about.

Answer by Warwick
Submitted on 9/18/2003
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Life has no real meaning. Do you ask why a plague spreads or why a fire burns? All Life exists in order to evolve, the concepts of finding friendship or love were made by us, humans, however if we look deeper into the random chaos of the universe, we exist only because we were given the opportunity to, and we give ourselves the meaning to our lives. Our importance in the universe is the same as the bacteria found in Mars. We can only expect to live our lives the best way possible according to our possibilities and realize that even with the existence of a God to protect us or not we will disappear when the Universal Chaos Lottery hits us. I'm happy to know that there are still people in this superficial world that want to to discuss these subjects.

Answer by Meggylou
Submitted on 1/28/2004
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The meaning of life is love; to love and be loved. God saw it in his infinite wisdom to create time and space and to create us, basically because he was lonely. I think in a way he wanted to challenge himself to create a being with freewill and then allow that being to come to him all on thier own. I think he succeded for the most part. To the man who wrote earlier that he didn't want to have the priveledge of going to heaven simply because he was born into a Christian American family. Think again, Christianity got its start exactly where the Islamic religion did, in Iran, the cradle of civiliaztion. It made its way through Africa and then into Europe. I would not consider it an "American" tradition by any means. Today Christianity can be found on every continent and in hundreds of countries in one form or another. Its called "research".

Answer by Linda m n
Submitted on 6/9/2004
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The answer to the meaning of life is quite simple. Look to the bible and Jesus gives us the answer. Love God with your whole heart, mind, body and soul. Love your neighbor as yourself. If you do this you are following all the commandments. Humble yourself and give the praise and glory to our creator. God the Father our creator is love and he loves you very much. God created you to worship him and he deserves all the praise because he is the first and the last. He has no beginning and no end. Just look around you and take in all the beauty he has created. Look at yourself you are special and made in the image of God. You are nothing without the creator. Instead of living in the flesh, turn to your spiritual self. Nurture it with prayer, fasting, and penance. Sin will keep you from God for he is pure and perfect. It is hard to let go of pleasure and putting ones self first. However, the key to peace and happiness is to surrender your freewill to God Almighty, the author of life, and he will give you complete, happiness, peace, contentment and purity you are looking for. That is what you were created for.

Answer by Emendy
Submitted on 9/25/2004
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It is the meaning you give to it based on your own level of intelligence and understanding(limitation). It can mean nothing or all things or everything else in between. Do not look beyond your understanding because there is nothing beyond it. As human, we have choices but being the created, we have no control over the outcome of those choices. That has been predetermined. That has been built into our specification and our potentialities. When we ourselves design(create) a new product, we develop specification and we put limitations(or potentials) to it. We always have reasons for developing the product. The creator will always have reasons for creating something(even if it is only for testing). To you, the meaning of your life is the very reason why the One that created you, created you in the first place. Nothing more nothing else.

Answer by Henry
Submitted on 10/7/2004
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become the anomoli. I agree with what has been said to the notion of "the meaning of life isn't found until after it is finished" but while one lives one must live as an anomoli. Strive to have a unique way of living life. I don't mean like how everyone has a unique DNA, because DNA is all the same rearranged to make a unique code. For life one must live life totally uniquely that all aspects are unique. Their uniqueness may leave an imprint and it may be forgotten the moment after it ends, but I don't believe that's the point. I also believe we are all a part of the all powerful (God, YHWH, Allah, great spirit, the universe, knowledge, however you want to call it). Our unique life and the living of it is because we can. Seriously, why live? Why not?

Answer by Truth finder
Submitted on 10/15/2004
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'Life'isa frame of time. Time to learn about oneself and the others. Time to correct and improve. Time to be organized, disciplined, focused,active and creative.Time to think, analyse and find the reason of our existence. Time could be spending wrong doings, hurting others, destroying, complaning, being a waste of space or time! How it is spend, that's ones choice. But the fact is time has a limit. Only the creator of time knows about the length of each frame. Each one will be asked if they tried to find out the truth and act upon it? No matter how much you deny it or laugh at it, you face the end result and it might be too late to change. Be smart and find the truth within the time you are given.