What sense does our life have?
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The only true value to life is what you value as important and the value you put into it. If you value money then you will need to be rich in money to value life. If you value family then you may need a lot of relatives and close friends in your life to find it valuable. You may value helping people so you volunteer for Peace Corp. The point is is for you to find out what makes you happy and live that life.
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the meaning of life....\nthe reason we live....\nis only to die
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If you think about it, all the experience we call life is actually our impression of external events, but filtered through the nervous system and the brain. Whatever you see, you see in your brain, also what you touch and what you taste and what you smell, it's all sensed through your brain. That's why taoists say that ultimately, nothing really has an intrinsic "existence", but it's all conveniently rendered into ideas by our thoughts. Anyway, besides that fact, I think there's a factor in your life that is not allowing you too feel 100%. When all your senses are in order you don't become aware of how life seems to be a construction of the psyche. I think you need to do things that make you more "grounded", and you'll get over that. Best thing to do is to spend some time outdoors. Go camping for a couple of nights, or just for a hike outdoors, or visit a farm, or ride a horse or something. All those things make your senses go more into survival mode, therefore relaxing all other anxieties. Just a thought.
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For me, Life is about finding out who I am and becoming as fully as possible the person that I was created with the potential to be. The more closely I approach this, the more I naturally contribute to and love others.\n\nTo this end I recognise that I am responsible for my life - my thoughts, feelings, actions, responses.\n\nFor me this means living, thinking and responding in a way that is consistent with my inner ‘knowings’; that is in alignment with who I sense myself to be and with my experience of the infinite, loving intelligence behind the universe (‘God’).
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The innate psyche, I believe, is mis-trust. We do not, and probably cannot, fully trust or believe in any physically present system. A greater source which is defined as the "undefinable" serves as an easy solution. Many (and I think majority) of the people I have met are not exactly in the search for God. They just believe it and carry on.\n\nThe purpose of life I feel is just to scale time. It is just that we cannot define "purpose" beyond our own life. I do not believe that the approximately 80 years that we spend here has to be balanced by a purpose. I think the whole multitude of generations starting from whenever the Earth formed Life serves just to scale Time, which (time)  by the way has surely got be of a far greater meaning than we can ever reach. We have to accept that we cannot know everything.\n\nWe are like thinking cogs of a machine. If a cog knows the purpose of the machine it will effectively have a choice to approve or disapprove of it (the purpose). Which gives it the power to mess up the whole system. Hence, it is better, as a whole, for it to only know whether to rotate clockwise or anti-clockwise.\n\nThe best we can do is define our own "reality" and Live it.
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what is the meaning of life?
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You are basically asking what the meaning of life is.  I believe that we all have a purpose here.  The hard part is chosing the right path to follow in order to get where we are destined to be.
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I live to experience life..not to have fun, or work, or love, just to experience the wonders of it...\nAre you still here? If not...sorry you misunderstood your purpose for living...it is/was just an adventure, nothing more, nothing less...
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My reason for living is life itself. It's the only thing we have, or we perceive we have. As for the meaning of life, that's up to each and one of us. For me it is to make this an enjoyable place for all and that's what I'm trying to do. From a universal perspective, anything I do (or anything anyone does for that matter) is absolutely pointless, so we might as well enjoy this pointlesness that is existance. \n\n\n\nEdit, as a response to the asker's comments: \n\nWhy would my reason be weak? I mean, you basically answered your own objection in your comment. What is the point in doing good? There isn't one. But what is the point in doing anything else? What is the point in doing the wrong things, what is the point in eating ice cream, what is the point in doing anything at all? There is no point to any of them. Talking from the universal perspective. Our existance is as meaningless as the existance of a rock or a black hole. We are particles, nothing more nothing less. \n\nWhere am I going with this? Well, this absolute meaningless of existance enables us to give our lives any meaning whatsoever, as there is no pre-determined meaning, something that most religions suggest. I gave my life the meaning that I stated in my initial answer, because since there essentially is no point in anything and life in itself has no purpose, we might as well enjoy our conscious existance, since, after all, life is all we have got. And that's what I'm trying to do, make it all enjoyable for us. That's my own personal way in which I want to spend my life, at least right now. It is as pointless as anything else, however, why not be happy in all this pointlesness?
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To know the meaning of life, you must know the meaning of death.\n\nUntil you have died, you cannot know the answer.
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What if you found out what the point is?  What if you found out the meaning of life? Wuuld you be satisfied?  nope.  You wouldn't.  We are never satisfied.\n\nWe deal with those things because as living creatures is our nature to stay alive.  The the thought of losing a life is usually a lot worse than anything else.
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I think that's like a "what's the meaning of life" question - it really can't be answered so just worry about how to live your life before you die, what's going to happen afterwards is a mystery and I think should be looked upon as an adventure that you never know where it's going to end up.
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meaning of life is love.\nthat all
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Life – it has a meaning and loving purpose - you just have to find your purpose and live it.\n\nI believe every person is here for a definite purpose. Each person is special and valuable; that refers to me, you, your family, friends, in fact everybody! There is a loving plan for each of our lives here on earth and there is no such thing as coincidence. I don't believe that anything in life happens by chance and that every aspect of our lives points to something deeper.\n\nAs human beings, we all ask the question: Who am I? Who am I meant to become? What is my value or destiny as a human being? Who will become for me the model of my humanity? Pope John Paul II told us that ultimately JESUS CHRIST IS THE ANSWER to these questions. Christ is the living blueprint and pattern for our humanity. Jesus Christ reveals our meaning to us.\n\nThus Pope John Paul II, quoting Vatican II in his Redeemer of the Human Race, wrote: "Christ...fully reveals man to himself and brings to light his most high calling." "In Christ and through Christ," the pope added, all are enabled to come to "full awareness of their dignity...and of the meaning of their existence."\n\nYou need to decide now to live for God rather than for yourself. You spend your life on Earth preparing yourself (as best you can) for death. I don't see death as a scary, negative experience, but birth into a bliss filled eternal life with God. I believe that this is something you have to consciously choose or not during your life on earth. \n\nThe meaning of life is for us to discover that we are true children of an infinitely loving and merciful God, to find out what our responsibilities are to our Creator, and to fulfill those responsibilities. Each of us is called to affirm, accept and develop the talents God has given us.
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how do you know that you are experiencing reality ?
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I think the meaning of life is enjoying everyday.  Humans do not have all the answers, and there are some things we wouldn't be able to wrap our minds around if we tried.
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Life – it has a meaning and loving purpose - you just have to find your purpose and live it.\n\nI believe every person is here for a definite purpose. Each person is special and valuable; that refers to me, you, your family, friends, in fact everybody! There is a loving plan for each of our lives here on earth and there is no such thing as coincidence. I don't believe that anything in life happens by chance and that every aspect of our lives points to something deeper.\n\nAs human beings, we all ask the question: Who am I? Who am I meant to become? What is my value or destiny as a human being? Who will become for me the model of my humanity? Pope John Paul II told us that ultimately JESUS CHRIST IS THE ANSWER to these questions. Christ is the living blueprint and pattern for our humanity. Jesus Christ reveals our meaning to us.\n\nThus Pope John Paul II, quoting Vatican II in his Redeemer of the Human Race, wrote: "Christ...fully reveals man to himself and brings to light his most high calling." "In Christ and through Christ," the pope added, all are enabled to come to "full awareness of their dignity...and of the meaning of their existence."\n\nYou need to decide now to live for God rather than for yourself. You spend your life on Earth preparing yourself (as best you can) for death. I don't see death as a scary, negative experience, but birth into a bliss filled eternal life with God. I believe that this is something you have to consciously choose or not during your life on earth. \n\nEach of us is called to affirm, accept and develop the talents God has given us.