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I think that the meaning of life is to find your meaning of life. Everyone is different so our meaning of life is different. Maybe there is no meaning of life and all of this is just random stuff that happens.

birth, baby on the happyness, married with my love, to be the richman... and when I die must be going to heaven.

The meaning of life is to stop asking this meaningless question.

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life is someting everyone has. it's an opportunity. you get one life and decide what to do with it. Life is what you make out of it. Some people may hate life because their life was/is horrible but that is not life its things in life. Life's a building(think mentally)there are many and in those buildings you have different things and as you get wiser you building expands or if you get poorer(life gets worse) you building can get destroyed and the only one who can build it is you:)

i ono

In it's simplest definition, Life is a test. In this test the results are based on how we serve God, Love God and accept Jesus as Lord and do God's will we are judged. All have fallen short and sinned, have false pride etc. so those that reject God's love and Jesus' sacrifice will fail the test. The rewards of those that pass are based on doing God's will and living for God and accepting Jesus as Lord. Don't be fooled our every action in our life will have a consequence for good or evil.

Just your willingness to search for that answer shows that there is the universal need for an answer. Many however will try to deny it because of the implied and explicit implications of God and Jesus. Others will hate the question and my answer for just those same reasons too! Life having no meaning frees the individual from responsibility and to live as debauched a life as they want, just read up on Nietzche, he died of syphilis in a mental hospital.

C.S. Lewis was an atheist that declared God and Jesus were myths but after meeting JRR Tolkien and looking at the evidence became a very strong Christian and pronouncer of the Gospel. Here is what he says about life having meaning:
"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

Our purpose is found in what Jesus said, that he came to save the lost and by following him we are to have "peace that the world cannot", so that we may "live more abundantly" and so that we help those we can such as the poor, the children, the widows and the sick. So you see that the meaning of life is the relationship with God and another part is the relationship with each other.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...

Henry Drummond talks about love and our relationship with God in his book "The Greatest thing in the World", I think it is a good read and here is a link where it is available for free online.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16739

The meaning is found in God's Love, Jesus' love and sacrifice and our love to others and that relationship.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...


May you find true meaning.
Bai

This idea makes me wish for every day: [quote]

"11.4 I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
11.5 It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgment of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.
11.8 I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth.
11.13 I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.
11.17 What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?
11.18 But I am done with this creed of corruption.
11.19 I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame.
11.20 And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride.
11.21 This god, this one word:
11.22 "I."