Is there any meaning of life and the universe?

[NormaJeane]

People have been thinking about the meaning of life at all times. One can distinguish between the function of existence and its deeper meaning. There are following opinions about the meaning of life: 1. There is no meaning (my opinion). 2. There is no meaning but it can be created. 3. There is a meaning to discover in religion or philosophy. 4. It is possible to find meaning in existence itself, in nature and universe. 5. There is a meaning to live in the present, in harmony with the outside world. 6. To survive and have childen. 7. To leave the world better than it was when I came here - to have a goal in life; an invention, a political idea, to write a book or to compose music. According to Dalai Lama, the meaning of life is the search for happiness. Happiness depends more on the state of mind than by external events. But as time goes on everything will die. The universe will probably die in the big chill - it will expand forever, everything will be colder and black holes will radiate away and disappear, nothing will be left. So what can the meaning of life and the universe be?

 

[WornOutLife]

This is what I wonder every single day of my existence.
I'm watching lots of videos and reading many books but I will probably never find the answer.

I'm just a goddamn ape on a blue rock who is clueless about everything.

 

[ClownMe]

I believe in 1) there is no meaning.

 

[lumipallo]

I try to remind myself there is no meaning and that It's not written that I'm supposed to grow old and have kids. That thought kind of keeps me from feeling like a coward/failure for wanting to ctb.

 

[Pauperpills]

If you look at it from a macrocosmic perspective, it feels like our lives are irrelevant and we're just a small footprint in the timeline of the universe. Makes me have an existential crisis just thinking about the meaning of it all.

 

[Amumu]

Life is meaningless, that's why we need SS bro. Legalise euthanasia for everyone over a certain age, whatever the reason.
Living in a post-religious society doesn't make any sense.
Have you ever asked yourself why fertility rate where atheism is high is very low...

 

[FuneralCry]

I don't think there is any meaning. We only live just to die and be forgotten. I think people use religion to try convince themselves that there is some intention as to why we are here but I don't believe in all of that. I guess the purpose of any species is to breed the next generation so the world can stay populated but individual lives do not matter. I wish we could have just stayed in the void. All of our pain is for the sake of it :(

 

[TotallyIsolated]

Life isn't inherently meaningful. Meaning isn't a thing that exists in the real world. Its not tangible, nor made of anything. Meaning only exists in the mind of someone interpreting it, which is to say that meaning is subjective. A thing can mean something to you, but it doesn't have meaning in and of itself. Furthermore a thing can mean something different to one person as to another.

Take a dive into the meaning of song lyrics, and you'll find that huge numbers of people will be sure that some particular song lyrics must mean something, but then in an interview the artist reveals that its just stream-of-consciousness nonsense they made up. That's not to say that its wrong or invalid to interpret art, but any meaning we interpret from a song only exists in our heads and not in the music itself.

 

[Jumping_realms]

On a cosmic scale, we are going to be just a blip on the radar. There's no meaning to life.

I would stick around as long as I could if my health permitted so, but that's not the case, unfortunately.

 

[Pluto]

Happiness depends more on the state of mind than by external events. But as time goes on everything will die.

You've condensed a lot of solid research very well.

The fact that all forms (all beings, all beliefs, all ideas, all civilisations, all planets with life, etc.) perish is an absolute rule with no exceptions. So there is no question of having something of value on Earth and keeping it.

Eastern philosophies such as Advaita Vedanta call into question our assumption that we must identify exclusively with our bodies, our passing life situations and our thoughts, which are as perishable as anything else. Those who attain mastery, such as Ramana Maharshi or the Buddha, attain a perspective from which the body and the world are of no concern, there is no such thing as death and the nature of life without the body-identification is blissful. They say that overcoming the world and attaining enlightenment in this manner is the highest purpose. However, for some reason it seems to be rare and difficult for anyone to achieve this.

 

[souljah222]

i think its like a joke in some way, and sometimes i feel like im starting to get it but its still not funny tho

 

[Realman!@]

Nah, if there were we would have probably found it by now.