The meaning of life

Introduction
There are lots of people around the world searching for answers and no one in actuality knows why we are here. The following will not answer this question nor will provide all of the possible answers. This is purely meant to be an interesting read and to make the reader think.

1 Gods Test
Life could be a test set by god to see weather or not we are worthy of living in heaven with us. There are a lot of religions websites on the internet that talk about the meaning of life as a test. We were created by God and because we were given the choice to be able to rebel against God we are being tested weather or not our faith is strong enough.

If God created man and life in Gods own image and is only testing our faith, then we should live a life following Gods words and just live life praying for the best. This maybe why religion is felt so highly in the world, a world where everyone looks after everyone else and then spends their afterlife in heaven. The world is clearly not full of the “help each other follow Gods wish and be happy” way of life. We should understand that this way of life could bring is happiness and hope knowing that we will go to paradise when we die, if we put our faith to religion.

So why is this not wanted by everyone? In my opinion the reason we all do not believe in God because there are too many religions and the reasons of doubt and “rules” we need to life by are strong. With knowledge has come power and with power has come rebellion. No one likes being told what to do and with God giving us rules as well as life in general having rules, we want to escape. The life of faith is not easy and it makes life easier for some to just say there is not a God and that God does not exist.

Are the rules too hard to life by? The following are the Ten Commandments from (Rev. McGinnis, God’s Rules to live by) at http://patriot.net/~bmcgin/pearl-godsrulestoliveby.html
1. "Do not put anything ahead of God your Creator."
2. "Do not make or worship idols."
3. "Do not take the name of God in vain."
4. "Take one day of complete rest each week."
5. "Honor your father and your mother."
6. "Do not commit murder."
7. "Do not commit adultery."
8. "Do not steal."
9. "Do not tell lies against anyone."
10. "Do not covet other people's possessions."

The above rules do not sound that hard so why do people fail to live by them? Unless the faith is strong people may feel that there is a chance they will just get away with it. We like doing things we are not meant to and braking rules and if god did not want us to break them surely he would have made some way to prevent us from doing so. After all God could have gave us all the power of God and we really would be causing trouble.

Having faith is like having hope it can allow us to become better people and live but forever be limited by Gods “rules”. There are also lots of different versions of Gods “rules” and with out explicit knowledge of these may cause people confusion. Religion is rarely chosen by ones self and is normally passed on from parents. The Parents are choosing for their children the way of life. This could turn out wrong as a story told by person to person can get mixed up and made incorrect (Chinese whispers). The only current way of knowing if this is the right path in life is to live it. God does not set what we should do in life what jobs we should work as where we should live etc. Our life is our life we are given the choice to make our own minds up, but have to give God some of our time.

2 To reproduce
Looking at humans as any other animal on this earth, can show us that we are here to simply reproduce and breed. If we do not breed and reproduce we would die out and the human race would be over. This has more visible proof then the section 1, because we can see failed life forms. The dodo is an example of a failed life form. Maybe we are only here to spread as much as we can.

This meaning of life is very narrow minded and does not include answers to what is the point of homosexuals or women after the menopause. A possible to the latter is to pass down knowledge and to help her children. There really is not a point of infertility and homosexuals because they can no reproduce.

We also may cause problems such as running out of food because we become too big. This meaning of life is a very basic meaning and does not give any glory and hope that section 1 gave.

If this is the meaning of life then what do we do? If this truly is the meaning of life then an answer to the question is, what ever we want to as long as we are reproducing. Men should have sex with as many women as they can and spread the human race as much as possible. We should teach our children only to reproduce and survive. This does not sound very nice and misses out some very important things to some people such as love and marriage etc.

This meaning of life could work and does seem to be working. We are reproducing and we are continuing the human race. We have been looking for answers when there really is not any to look for because they are in front of us. This theory would mean that all the scare of infections and diseases are just a battle of survival and we should continue to breed and hope the human race cures itself. This would also mean there is nothing to live for if we did not want to reproduce and there is no reward to living a good life.

3 To find Happiness
The meaning of life could just be to find ones soul mate and to just be happy. The human race would still very much depend on the theory from section 2, but life would be more about finding happiness and enjoying life and just enjoy ones life.

This theory is all about finding happiness for oneself and does not really help mankind or each other. It is saying the meaning of life is everyone should find happiness and seek out happiness. We do not always know what we will lead to us being happy and our life may turn out completely different from what we wanted but seeking and planning to find a way to be happy is a meaning of life.

4 Just Live
Life should be about living. We should just live and enjoy life. The meaning of life could simply be to live. We could be here to simply live our life and die. This would mean there is no afterlife and there is no real propose of life but to just live. We would be able to live everyday as we wanted and just live.

But that is not a meaning but just something to do isn’t it? Well yeah it is and it means there is no real meaning. We are here to live and we shall live. Even if we do not like living and choose to end it, we have still lived a life. Life in this theory has no propose but is just like a rollercoaster ride. We have ups and downs a start and a finish. In the end we all get off the ride it is what happens on the journey that makes it life.

Conclusion
The above was not meant to answer the question but just talk about some possible reasons of life. The real answer to the meaning of life may never been answered. Even if it is answered some people may refuse to believe it. The real answer to why we are alive should not be answered by someone else but should be answered by oneself. We may spend ages wondering why we are here and it is normal. The journey we spend looking for the answer maybe our life. We are alive and why we are alive and for what propose does not really matter. It is how you choose to live your life. There are people that say the meaning of life is unknowable, that is incorrect the knowledge is knowable but weather or not we will know it is unknowable. Just live your life and believe what you want to believe. The knowledge of life should be passed on so others can better understand, but should not be forced upon them as it is there right to make their own choice.

There answers of others may not apply to you but that does not mean they are wrong. It is your life and you may only get one so live it.