The meaning of life

I agree, as I have already explained this in one of my previous posts. Happiness is the ultimate meaning of life, although it means something different for each person.

The question beyond this is: what is the purpose of this? Where do we get while we fulfill the meaning of our lives? Does it make sense to live our life in a meaningful manner? It will all vanish eventually...

Does it even make sense to ask why we are here?

It is really good, however, to know that people exist with a secure feeling about their meaning of life, and how they want to achieve it. Even though my happiness depends on different things, the concept of this whole thing appears to be the same for me too.
It simply makes me feel good to know that some people really think about their lives and really find meaningful answers.

happiness is a feeling,it's a feeling that a human being express,a happy human can turn into a sad human,a confused human etc.
What i wanna know,is what is the meaning of life,why are we here,what is our mission,how come some die young while some age,how come we are all different in a way but very similar in another.
I respect your opinion but i think it lies more behind it than happiness.

Just stop and think about what is necessary to experience this feeling, and then you'll find what the statement "happiness is the meaning of life" actually means.

That is a good theory however i would say each man and each woman creates the essence “meaning” of his and her life; life is not determined by a supernatural god or an earthly authority, one is free. As such, one's ethical prime directives are action, freedom, and decision, thus, existentialism opposes rationalism and positivism. In seeking meaning to life, the existentialist looks to where people find meaning in life, in course of which using only reason as a source of meaning is insufficient; the insufficiency gives rise to the emotions of anxiety and dread, felt in facing one's radical freedom, and the concomitant awareness of death. To the existentialist, existence precedes essence; the “essence” of one's life arises only after one comes to existence. Therefore the meaning of life is meaningless as we already know that we create our own meaning even if we don't realise that.

The problem with your logic is that it's based on the belief that one is free and there is no superior authority to determine our lives. However, the latest scientific theories include the possibility - and probability - of the existence of a divine being, or a superior consciousness. Not to mention that most of the time we tend to obey traditions and social norms without any conscious decisions about it. So much for "not being there an earthly authority" - there are many authorities (parents, friends, boss, neighbors, other citizens, etc.), we create them for ourselves and bound ourselves by them - and we do that barely by conscious decision.
As far as free will goes, there are more experiments on consciousness showing that our decision is not merely the product of consciousness, but rather something within us, something beyond our awareness. The decisions are simply reconsidered and expressed via our conscious self, but they raise much sooner in our brain than the actual thought of decision. Whatever the outcome of our decision will be is first and mainly the matter of the sub-conscious mind, and whatever influences it (like beliefs, sensory perceptions, childhood trauma, and maybe a superior entity, a divine being, or whatsoever).

I don't say there is no free will. I don't say there is a god. I just say that what you wrote is your belief, not a philosophical fact - no matter how philosophical you tried to sound.

I didn't really grasp whatever you tried to explain with that existentialism-rationalism-positivism stuff, I didn't get that :)

I don't think that there is an answer about the meaning of life.
at least not an answer we can process or understand with our brain.

my belief is because our brain is only a part of our being and each one of us is only a small part of the universe. to understand my point, think that you ask your legs what is the meaning of their life… I’m sure you are smiling now…
so in my perception trying to understand or “tag” the meaning of life – isn’t the right way, because like I said the answers will be false.
But although we will never know the meaning of life we do have “tools” to know if we are on the right path or not.
One of those tools is like mysticwarrior said : happiness ! but I’m not talking about “outer” happiness that comes from outside – like : when a woman says you’re the best lover, or your commander says you’re the best soldjer, or your boss says you’re the worker of the month…
I’m talking about a more “inner” happiness – that is regardless of what others are saying and is more of what you feel/know for yourself, and it’s also not something you can remember, not something in the past…it’s about moments in the presents when you loose any track of time ( even if it’s for 2 seconds )
And what I’m trying to do is to experience life and find the path that brings the most “inner happiness” moments…

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