Is there a definitive answer to the age old question “what is the meaning of life?” The only real answer to this connundrum is that life will always take on the meaning you give to it.
We live in a responsive yet unpredetermined universe. Our choices and actions determine the consequences. To blame God or anyone or anything else in life for what happens is to take no responsibility for ourselves. When we do this we make excuses and to justify our positions we make judgments based on moral and other contextual definitions.
Definitions are tools of the mind. They are how the mind classifies everything it experiences. Definitions are only words. Words per se are a limited and clumsy way of trying to convey some sense of what is being subjectively experienced by the experiencer. The very experience itself is a form of classification and limitation.
The most basic definition used is whether something is either “good” or “bad”. Now both of these definitions are reliant upon our attitudes. In reality there is no good or bad. It is just what it is! Anything more than that is just contextual. Continue reading