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Anonymous asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 10 years ago

Whats the meaning of life?

I need help i have to write a paper on the meaning of life. And from previous post im sure u notice i have a shitty life and my meaning of life is **** so whats ur meaning of life please help??

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago
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    The meaning of life is what you make it. Our thoughts make up our realities and are supported by the universe. Therefore, we are here to create whatever we want out of the life we’re given and we are the one’s who give it meaning.

    For example- If I think the meaning of life is to help others, when I help others I get a feeling of being in harmony with the universe, when I harm others I feel disharmonious. Or, if I feel that life is about personal growth and development, when I’m furthering myself as a person I feel harmony and when I’m self destructive, disharmony.

    I think most people that ask this question are really looking to have their inner yearning for fulfillment quenched and this answer doesn’t fit the bill so I’ll explain a bit further about how our thoughts create our realities.

    Your predominant thoughts are picked up by the subconscious mind which goes to work to make things happen in your life so that it’s congruent with what you believe. If you believe that most people would try to rip you off if they could get away with it, you will be led to those types of people and they will be led to you. If you believe you are too smart to get fooled by them, their attempts to rip you off will be futile. If you think that most people are intelligent, then your subconscious mind will go to work to surround you with intelligent people. Everything you think, becomes true for you. Even if you’re thinking this is a bunch of hogwash.

    This is why it’s so important to get your thoughts in line with your desires. This is how you create a reality in the fashion you desire. What if your thinking was that everything is perfect and beautiful? It is a reality I have created for myself. First, I freed myself from judgment. Judgment is very destructive to ones psyche because when you judge others, you judge yourself much more harshly. If a man fell into a lion’s cage and was eaten, you wouldn’t think the lion’s bad would you? No, it’s a perfect and beautiful creature just doing what lions do right? Everything and everyone is perfect and beautiful. Maybe we keep away from those creatures that would do us harm and surround ourselves with the ones we like, but they’re all perfect and beautiful.

    So the technique I used to make this my reality is to use affirmations. Remember how I said that our predominate thoughts make up our realities? Well repeating a phrase over and over again like, “You are perfect and beautiful and I love you unconditionally” (they have to be said in the present tense as if you already believe it) while feeling the feelings of it being true is eventually accepted by the subconscious to be true. I repeated this in my head over and over again about random people and eventually started believing it about myself. Freeing myself from judgment was the single greatest thing I have ever done to give myself peace of mind. So you can use affirmations to help bring about the reality you want.

    Another good thing to use is your imagination. The subconscious can’t tell the difference between what you’re doing and what you’re imagining you’re doing. So the more you flood your thoughts with imagining the life you want to have, the more your subconscious goes to work to make it your reality.

    Creativity is a wonderful way to submerse your thinking in that which you desire. If you desire a girlfriend or boyfriend for instance, start writing them love letters or paint a picture of you with the person of your desires (not a specific person). If you desire a home, make a beautiful painting of it, or write out its description in detail (again, in present tense like, “My house is so beautiful. It has a…”).

    You get to not only declare your purpose in life, but you get to create it. You may have been expecting or even hoping someone would steer you in the right direction, but no one can steer your life for you. You can be, do or have anything you want and your subconscious and the collective conscious will do all the heavy lifting. If work is required for your thoughts to be realized, it will be a joy not a chore.

    I may not have answered your question as to the meaning of life, but just handed you the keys. What you do with it is up to you. Your thoughts create your world, so start putting your thinking in line with your desires and declare the meaning of your life. Good luck.

    Live life loving.

  • 10 years ago

    its gonna be hard trying to write about the meaning of life that you don't personally believe. Since there's really no real answer to this there's no facts about it you can right. Everything about this topic is subjective so it really has to be from you or either you're not gonna be able to finish or its gonna be complete ****. It doesn't matter if you have a bleak view on life. If you think there's no meaning write about that and explain why. Here's a quote help you get started :)

    "I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."- Kurt Vonnegut this can mean life is to just have fun or life is pointless just do whatever and forget about everybody else. interpret however you like.

  • doiron
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    i've got self assurance there is an imposed meaning in existence, yet not an inherent one. What I recommend by utilising that's that the meaning of existence is created by utilising the ideas. without unsleeping information to p.c. it, meaning does not exist. think of of it like color. colorations do not likely exist everywhere different than in our very own minds the two. Photons with a wavelength of 640 nm are perceived by utilising human beings as being "pink". the colour itself isn't intrinsic to the two the photon or the article that emitted the photon. a various creature like a canine or a wasp might interpret those photons in a thoroughly diverse way. The extraordinary element approximately that's that it thoroughly can provide the liberty to attach any meaning you prefer to each element of existence You create your guy or woman certainty, dude!

  • 10 years ago

    The meaning of life is different for different people. But respecting your own decision, doing what feels natural to you and staying true to your heart pave the way for realizing the meaning of life. You have unique potential and you must have the courage to push yourself to the limit to leverage your true potential. By leveraging your true potential, you will not only make your life meaningful, but also you will make your surrounding a bit better.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    To experience life and the love of life, though paradoxically also to experience fear for if there was not fear there would not be love and if there was not love there would not be fear. These two things are opposites, yet they were one at the beginning and will be one again in the end.

    God was all there was, she was bored, so he split himself up in order to experience yourself.

    The meaning is just to appreciate this wonderful gift God has given us(that you have given yourself) by relishing in and enjoying each experience to its fullest!

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    our feelings and perceptions create our life

    and you will live in heaven or hell according to how you feel and what you see

    the environment created positive/negative by individuals, gives there life meaning

    nothing is preordained, your choices create your destiny

    What is the meaning of life ? it is whatever you want it to be

    for me it is to live a life in peace and contentment, with love the driving force

    i see no other reason to search for anything else

  • 10 years ago

    The feeling of life.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    42.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    to be happy/enjoy life and help others to be happy

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