What gives your life meaning?

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Ozma

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.

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!

There's nowhere I can't reach.