Lifes meaning?

Question:Hi all. This is really hard to explain but here goes. I want to know what you think about life. Sometimes when im in bed i just lie down and my mind wanders, i sometimes get really scared about what life really is, as in maybe this is all some weird fantasy, maybe this isnt real? How did everything begin, because something cant have started from nothing i.e. you can keep going backwards saying "what made that and what made that" till you get to the what made the big bang and say what made that? and no one knows, it cant have been nothing, so there cant have ever been nothing, but thats an anomaly because how did it become something and ARGGHHH its just so damn confusing and it freaks me out sometimes when i think about it. But maybe this isnt real? So how do i know, because im ME, but everyone else could be anything. Its so ******* weird i know, but the mind does wander. I'm andatheist so im really not interested in God oriented stuff, sorry i just aint buying it. What do you think?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hi all. This is really hard to explain but here goes. I want to know what you think about life. Sometimes when im in bed i just lie down and my mind wanders, i sometimes get really scared about what life really is, as in maybe this is all some weird fantasy, maybe this isnt real? How did everything begin, because something cant have started from nothing i.e. you can keep going backwards saying "what made that and what made that" till you get to the what made the big bang and say what made that? and no one knows, it cant have been nothing, so there cant have ever been nothing, but thats an anomaly because how did it become something and ARGGHHH its just so damn confusing and it freaks me out sometimes when i think about it. But maybe this isnt real? So how do i know, because im ME, but everyone else could be anything. Its so ******* weird i know, but the mind does wander. I'm andatheist so im really not interested in God oriented stuff, sorry i just aint buying it. What do you think?

I came up with a theory which I don't believe was original but can't remember where it came from. Time and existence has always been, no beginning, no middle, no end. But we humans fully can't comprehend this since we are mortal and life is a cycle of beginning, middle, and end.

I have however found the best philosophical answer when studying Objectivism and I am certain of it being correct.

From - Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, by - Ayn Rand

"One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or "prove") existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are irreducible primaries. (An attempt to "prove" them is self-contradictory: it is an attempt to "prove" existence by means of nonexistence, and consciousness by means of unconsciousness.)"

omg you are like the only person in the world besides me who thinks about this stuff. sometimes i think about how im ME and i wonder about life and how this might not be real and im sitting here typing being myself and everyone else has their own life and im sitting here living breathing as a human being and this is LIFe and i get so scared and start going into this semi-coma (for like 10 seconds) about how life and the world is happeningright now and my life and who i am and how life might not be even real.

Why does it matter???

i got two points :)

Try reading philosophy. Go to the library. You will find that this idea has been explored in great depth by the greatest thinkers of all time.

I know what you mean and I do the same thing I just really think what really is out there what was here 500million years before us?? And id is stupid and anoying and scary at sometimes but I just burst with frustraition anger and being affriad and Its so complicated yet so simple! and I get worked up about it and I dont know what could happen next and what if the earths meaning and im not some freaky alien belivier but what made us and what will happen later and what if we do die what else will happen the earth will disappear ? there will be no such thing as the human race! Ugh srry if i didnt answer your question but its a scary subject

i think when we die we find out the answers to everything, and all the confusion just dissolves away, and you just understand the universe completely.

The first phase of God's journey is evolution. It is initiated from a totally unconscious God as if an infinite Ocean were in a state likened to deep sleep. This unconscious God speaks the First Word "Who am I?". This question disrupts the limitless, undivided, absolute vacuum, and its reverberations create individualized souls, compared to drops or bubbles within the Ocean. By speaking the First Word, God establishes the process of Creation, in which he assumes evolving forms to gain increasing consciousness.
Individuality is the vehicle of this quest. Evolution marks a series of temporary answers to "Who am I?" The soul traverses a multitude of forms, beginning with simples gases and proceeding slowly through inanimate stone and mineral forms. These early evolutionary stages obviously have only the most rudimentary consciousness and cannot provide a satisfactory answer to God's original question.
The original query thus provides a continuing momentum for the drop soul to develop new forms each with greater consciousness, including the many plant and animal beings. Every evolutionary kingdom reveals new dimensions of consciousness and experience. Each also offers opportunities to gain different kinds of awareness. For example, when the soul identifies itself with varied species of fish, it experiences the world as a creature living in water conversely, as a bird, it enriches its consciousness by flying through air.
When the drop soul finally evolves to human form, consciousness is fully developed, but an individual is still not aware of the potential of his or her consciousness.
So the original "Who am I?" imperative persists and inaugurates the second phase: reincarnation. Since consciousness is fully developed, there is no longer a need for evolving new forms. The individual's experience, gathered in early stages of evolution, is now humanized and expressed in countless lifetimes. The impulses gained in sub-human forms can play themselves out in the broader context of intelligence, emotions, choices, diverse setting and interactions with people.
But obviously no single lifetime can bear the burden of "humanizing" the entire evolutionary inheritance randomly or simultaneously. There must be a method for re-experiencing the pre-human legacy in manageable segments. The soul thus experiences alternately a series of opposites, organized according to themes. Accordingly, in different lives, the soul becomes male and female, rich and poor, vigorous and weak, beautiful and ugly. Through exploring the potential of these many opposites, one eventually exhausts all possible human identities and, therefore, has fully learned the entire range of human experience.
Here begins the third phase: involution, the process by which the soul returns to the full awareness of the Divine Force, which created him. As Meher Baba puts it, "When the consciousness of the soul is ripe for disentanglement from the gross world (the everyday world of matter and forms), it enters the spiritual path and turns inward."
Like evolution, involution has certain states and stages, consisting of "planes" and "realms." But individuality continues along this spiritual path, and there are as many ways to God as there are souls.
Each new plane denotes a state of being that differs from the states that proceeded it. The first three planes are within the subtle world or domain of energy, "pran." There follows the fourth plane, the threshold of the mental world, where misuse of great power for personal desire can lead to disintegration of consciousness.
The fifth and sixth planes represent true sainthood, which is understood to be increasing intimacy with God as the Beloved. On the sixth plane, the mind itself becomes the inner eye that sees God everywhere and in everything. "The loving of God and the longing for His union," says Meher Baba "is fully demonstrated in the sixth plane of consciousness."
The seventh plane marks true and lasting freedom. Impressions go. Duality goes. The drops burst and again become the Ocean. God answers his question of "Who am I?" with "I am God." The Infinite has returned to the original starting point. He now knows, however, with full consciousness and full awareness that he was, is and always will be infinite. And he realizes that the entire journey has been an illusory dream, the purpose of which is the full awakening of his soul.