What gives your life meaning?

I still can and want to wake up in the morning just because I know life is precious, and I want to live it fully and truly.

Besides, I've got so much I want to do or to finish. I'm writing a novel right now, and it's still far from being finished. I also draw everyday (hopefully I can draw a manga). I also compose music. Ther are still other things I like to do, not as daily routines, but as life's essence. Why should I abandon these things?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by JackyBoy

Why should life have a meaning? Why do people think live owes us a meaning? I've often thought about the question myself but not an answer. I could come up with a list of 6 things but against the backdrop of the cosmos it seems extremely narrow. The best answer I can give and the only one that makes any sense is, I live for life. I live to see what the future will bring.

Why, doesn't that means you want to live for basically nothing; just depend on hands of Fate? People make goals and try to achieve them everyday...not just to get by and see the future.

Don't you wish to make your own future? It's better than only sitting and waiting.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Paper Crane

I would say just the opposite. I think he makes goals like everyone else, but he does not base his meaning on them. Living for life, to see what will happen. Just think, how many things happened today that you were not expecting? Life is an adventure, you make it and it makes you. There is no other way around it.

I see what you mean. But sometimes you can't just wait and see what will happen to life. Some things are to be fought and to be made. I believe that things are controlled by God, but surely there are things we can make, we can earn, and we can change.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by JackyBoy

How is it compatible that life could have meaning while under the influence of God? If God exists then humans are a pathetic lot indeed. Every choice you make is the outcome caused by God. If things are controlled by God then there is nothing you can make, earn, and change. All of these things are planned out even before your birth.

The failed counter argument is that God gave us free will. That is wholly incompatible with God's omnisicience. Free will can only merely be an illusion. God already knows every choice and their outcome long before you ever make the choice.

People often say they wouldn't want to live in a universe without God. I wouldn't want to live in a universe where there is God!

One thing for sure; GOD is NOT totally absolute. GOD does control most of our choices and path, but S/HE gives us something in return. S/HE gives us free will. In this part, I have to agree with you. But the thing is, GOD may have already made a path for anyone to be walked through, but the choice to do it or not (once again) lies in the hands of us. GOD is omnipotent, and GOD controls all, but after all, S/HE only creates templates, and the rest is for us. S/HE is flexible, after all.

You know, some people say and believe that GOD is actually a little kid who does nothing other than watching human, playing jokes on human, and laughs at us. Most certainly, I agree on these.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by whinehurst

Life has no meaning. There is no reason for you to be here. Our existence is without purpose.

Life, for all it's sound and fury, signifies nothing.

Then, do you agree with suicide and killing? If you say that life has no meaning, then it's OK to end it whenever we want to, with or without any reason.

I was speaking idiomatically.

You know, Whinehurst, after giving a lot of thought about, actually you have claimed that life HAS a meaning. For you, the meaning itself is meaningless.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by whinehurst

I guess, here's the thing, I don't believe in a Creator thing that made humans. So how can i think that there was a reason for us to be made? Since i believe our existence is basically a fluke, i believe we just get to be alive and intelligent and conscious for free.

If there is no reason for us to live, then why are we created in the first place? It's just a waste of energy, time, and ingredients. We are breathing right now because we are to have something, even if we are destined to do nothing at all. THAT is the purpose of life.

Even if you say it's basically MEANINGLESS; OUT OF MEANING, you still give it one fundamental base; that life's meaning is null.

FELIPE NO

After I gave a lot of thoughts (again...because of insomnias), I remembered what I claimed to be a meaning of life when I was younger.

It is to be a witness of life.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?