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What is the meaning of your life?

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Perhaps our lives do mean something, but it seems to me that only once we pass away could the meaning of our life be assessed. How can we know what our lives mean or meant while we're still in the process of living?
 
I dont think life itself has meaning. I think individuals can have meaning, and the Earth herself can have meaning.... But life just is.

I think you can give your own life meaning and I think others can give your life meaning as well... If you have a family or a child that depends on you - they are giving some meaning to your life. If you decide to be a good person or to try and make the world a better place you are giving yourself meaning. Even if you just acknowledge the beauty around you and your part in witnessing that - maybe that can be meaning as well...
 
We wander but not all who wander are lost. I think that is the meaning. Finding a way in life where you don't feel lost and enjoy every step of the journey. Many paths to the truth. I like my path! I like my truth!
 
"I dont think life itself has meaning. I think individuals can have meaning, and the Earth herself can have meaning.... But life just is."

Do you feel that these things are separate from one another?
 
I had a strange thing happen to me four or five years ago shortly after my experiences with mescaline. and since then I have been for the most part wholly free of this problem of meanings and faith and whether god is or is not. I'm not entirely sure why that is, but it has hurt me in many ways as well as made me stronger
 
To me, there is an endless stream of life, of consciousness, of energy and each of us is (part of) it, like fish in the sea where all fish are made of sea. All there is to do, is to let go and flow in the experience/mysterium, every now.

My meaning is to be, in every form it is "given to me".

I love you, namaste.

tseuq
 
You all talk of meaning but don't seem to asses the criteria of what that word is in referance to.

My life has meaning only if I understand what meaning itself is. Does a sheep know what meaning is? I endevour to transform my understanding of what meaning is especially with the use of alternative states of consciousness in order to give my life more meaning or rather better my understanding of meaning itself.

To support this claim, if you ask a supercomputer or an ET what meaning is... they will give a definition of something that is different from yours because it is relative the intelligence, capacity and capabilities of the entity.

Cognitive Heart said:
The question.. "what is the meaning of my life?" .. what IS life?! :lol:

Trust life. Be life. :thumb_up:
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:lol: Nice, I think though that they go hand in hand. If we don't know what something is, it has no meaning (literal definition of meaning) although there are other definitions of meaning, as stated above.

RAM said:
Thanks for your response AstraLex, it's good to see some diversity of religious beliefs here. In my original post I said, "In an atheistic universe, it becomes not only our task to perform our duty, but to define it as well."

With this quote I was implying that in a theistic universe, it is only our task to perform our duty, as it would be defined by an ultimate being, like God in your case. Your idea of finding a meaning instead of creating one makes a lot of sense, but I'm sure that many atheists believe there is some kind of ultimate meaning or truth, which they have responsibility of finding as well.
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Wow, never thought of it like that. That the meaning or definition of our lives lies in a metaphysical location that is still providing the explaination of our duty even when it is disconnected and unavailable from us like that.

Most people would find that ridiculous because people need to sense the definition in order for it to validate their duty... Yet we are unable to define it with our minds becasue of it's limited computational capacity (Gödel's incompleteness theorems). Nevertheless that religious stand point is interesting because it is saying that there is meaning to everything it is just unknowable and known by God alone, and that we are vehicles for the meaning to take place. Like a slave relationship... seems like a raw deal to me :?: unless there is truth in death :want:

universecannon said:
Then again, on the other hand there are some great techniques to help us along it seems... Some of it seems to coax or trick your normal "self" into relinquishing it's control and constant need of stimulation/thought. So I guess this whole thing is a bit paradoxical...heheh.
To quote the principia discordia:

All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless... in some sense.
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I assume you mean DMT?

If I could understand with complete clarity what every some sense meant to any statement... I would have an absolute definition of truth. Is such a thing possible? If your statement is correct then their would have to be.
 
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