The meaning of life

I have this thought that has been with me for some time now and I want to just plop it down to see what everyone thinks.

What if God and the Big Bang are both right. What if in the beginning there was only God. Then some cataclysmic event occurred, the Big bang, splitting God into millions of parts. Some bigger than others. Everything that we are and will be are those pieces trying to re-assemble and be made whole again. Which is why we feel there is something we are supposed to be, to become, why we are are angry, alone, and feel that we are just not right. Why we desire other people and things around us. Is there a religion that teaches this, I mean this broadly as every religion states this to some degree, that we are all belong to God, and were created from him. Therefore, what if we are smaller pieces of the larger thing called God, like ourselves if you cut us everything in us tries to close the wound, heal it, and regenerate what was lost.

Just thoughts I guess.

I know that many on here think that when the neurons stop firing that is it, we are done and everything we are is lost, save the legacy we leave behind.

Lately, the question of why is ever more present for me. I am not sure why, perhaps it is because I am turning 40. I have always held that there is a God, while I can not define what God is, I just have a sense that it wasn't all by accident, I feel that our world is contrived, what does that mean, I dunno, I wish I had the answers but I don't.

When I die, it could all just be Neurons firing that end and all is lost. What doesn't make sense with that is that it is all futile, to what end are we trying to accomplish. . . anything. Yet, even the most base humans in the most reclusive places feel driven to accomplish . . . something. What put the drive into us? Or are we no more than bacteria that are striving for dominance? I can't help but think that we are sentient for a reason, now are dogs, cats, butterflies, snakes, and fish etc, sentient, I dunno that either. I don't have answers to all the questions I pose, but that is the purpose of this site.

Why do we desire (for the most part) as a human race to be GOOD people?

Why do we feel that there is something we have to 'do' before we die?

If we are just firing neurons, why are we sentient, why develop the ability wonder what next?

Efficiency-wise bacteria are much more effective than humans, why evolve to the state we are in at all? From an evolution standpoint our intelligence is killing the human race, if you are an evolutionist then we have a genetic bug that makes us less efficient, and harmful to our surroundings.

These are just a few of the thoughts that run in my head. What do you all think?

For me the meaning of life is for people to learn how to love themself, love their neihbor, love their enemy and most importantly I think we are here to learn to love GOD. Somehow I think even though GOD is everywhere and always with us. We have somehow seperated ourselves from him and it is our purpose in life to reconnect with him and that is through love. Oh I do think there is other things that can be important in life but for me that is the core of the meaning of life.

How many of you agree? How many of you disagree?

Therein lies the problem - the place where the question stems - the human mind...

Intelligence? Human Intelligence? Something that has been scrutinized and argued about over the years - yet most come up with the same answer - Humans are top of the food chain because of sentience....There can only be that answer because what would be the other option?

I have sat here and watched the human race rape pillage and plunder the planet until it is almost ready to give up - thats what humans do - take - whether you like to think you do or not...I would like to give a glowing report on what i see but there is nothing nice to say...

Parasites - and not very good ones - (a good parasite doesnt kill its host) and humans think this is intelligence? yes you mine becuse you need fossil fuel - you hunt because you have developed ways of ending anothers life easily and you need food - you bicker and cheat eachother because you see this as a way of moving foreward - and you need to move foreward - any you say you care...you say you think...

Therefore you are.....

Well without all the thinking - you are.....
Without the wars - you are...
Without ever having to steal from another - to get them before they get you - you are...

Etcetera...

Other animals on this planet were quite joyful before the chemical imbalance happened to humans that caused them to think they were better than the rest - most animals these days flee from a human on sight - yet a deer on the african savannah will only flee from a lion if it senses it is hungry otherwise it will keep eating grass...That simply is the natural way of things - what humans do is not a natural thing...

You will think that you are right in what you do and you will come up with ways to justify your actions - even make up stories about burning bushes and voices from above to get what you want - set rules and regulations - and even kill eachother for land which is not yours...

In the big picture - who said you had permission to take my fossil fuel and poison my air? (its there for a reason) - who gave you permission to kill indescriminately any animal you like? which one of you came up with the idea that its ok (Because its for mankind)? or worse - your kind?

Whatever the case this idea you have - whatever you come up with - is based on a premise that it is ok because you are moral and intelligent, you dont know how far off track you've gone...

So the meaning of life? its not worth explaining to a species that thinks they know it already...

Just a tip?

God? Just a word to instill fear conformity and control. nothing to do with this planet.

President/Prime minister/King? People that choose to be furthest from the truth.

Death? Final. (no heaven - no hell - no afterlife - no nothing - the big sleep.

Words? Something you made up to get something you wanted...

Time? Daytime - night time.

Wake up and go plant a tree before i decide to de - flea...I'm giving y...

For two absolutely valid, but paradoxically contrasting perspectives on our lives, see the following. I hope you'll find it interesting/enlightening.

- HappyButNotUnscathed

URL: http://notunscathed.blogspot.com/2012/05/both-absolutely-insignificant-and.html

The meaning of life for me is a quote I made up, that quote is :"there is never enough questions and too little awnsers, never enough time. because why is an infinite question and the awnser because is only a theorem." I believe that humans were put on this earth to witness this beauty we have on earth and ask questions and live a life of infinite possiblities that only you can create. questions will be around for as humans live. If there is a higher power he will have all the awnsers to our questions if there isnt we will carry on questioning everything till there is nothing.

really, there is no meaning to life. there is no god (generally in my opinion), I honestly believe that the big bang theory makes more sense than a holy spirit. We were not planned, Earth was not planned. it all just happened. there are no such things as souls and the idea of life is a little far fetched, another question besides meaning is what exactly is life? I get confused by how we are able to feel, but then it could all be neurological. it's just our brains, and when we die, we die, there is nothing after it. no heaven, no afterlife, just nothing. I do however think that it is good that some people believe in higher powers or so because it's better for everyone not to fully understand everything, the world needs faith. me however, I have to have answers, it has to be logical. I don't want to live my whole life with the allusion of heaven afterwards, what I do plan on doing is living my life to the fullest and not missing out on anything. we only live once, and if I screw this life up, there is no doing over. we have to make it count, we have to do something in our lives. make a difference, whether it's for yourself or the whole world. honestly I plan on making a huge impact on the world so when I die I am able to say that I did something. I will look my grandchildren in the eye and tell them to live there lives and that there is no wrong answer.

I beleive that each one has a certain path, that when he follow it he becomes one with the world and thus achieving life's meaning.
feel free to read in detail what is my reasoning and how each one can find his own path in my blog :
http://aikitao.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/the-meaning-of-life/

have a wonderfull day and a great life !

There is no meaning to life. Meanings for things is made by human beings. You cannot give meaning to something that existed before the human belief of there being a meaning behind life. It just simply is a random occurance born of no meaning. Its human beings choice to if they give a meaning to their own life or not.

Lots of ppl say, "God created existance because..." but then, what created God? and who created the creator1, creator 2 creator 3 creator 4? What made the maker? And why?

QUESTIONS QUESTIONS!!!!!!!!

And why is there answers?

answer that!