What is The Meaning of Life?

Life

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  • To realize one’s potential and ideals
  • To achieve biological perfection
  • To seek wisdom and knowledge
  • To do good, to do the right thing
  • Meanings relating to religion
  • To love, to feel, to enjoy the act of living
  • To have power, to be better
  • Life has no meaning
  • One should not seek to know and understand the meaning of life
  • Antinatalism

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How Can I Get Full Satisfaction In My Life?

How Can I Get Full Satisfaction In My Life? This article covers the answer to the question: “How Can I Get Full Satisfaction In My Life?” God is eternal, so are His Mercy and Munificence. An Eternal One manifests Himself eternally and requires the existence of eternal beings. His eternal...

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Fruitful Life

Fruitful Life This article covers the answer to the question: “How to live a fruitful life?“ O my dear friends! Do you want to make your brief and useless life immortal, long, beneficial, and fruitful?  Since to so want is demanded by humanity, spend your life on the way of...

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Life And Science

Life And Science This article covers Life And Science according to A. C. Morrison. Life* is a riddle but transparent. It is a riddle in that scientists, who cannot explain it with material causes, are unable to discover its origin. It is transparent because it shows or reflects a creative power....

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Understanding Of The Mystery Of Life

Understanding Of The Mystery Of Life This article covers the mystery of life. The First consists of making known to you all the varieties of all the bounties from the True Bestower, and causing you to offer Him thanks. Be aware of this and offer Him thanks and worship. The...

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Five Degrees Of Life 

Five Degrees Of Life Human life has five degrees of life. Here are the degrees of life: The First Level of Life is that of our life, which is very restricted. The Second Level of Life is that of the lives of Khidr and Elijah, which is free to an...

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Definition Of Life

Definition Of Life This article covers a detailed definition of life according to Bediuzzaman Said Nursi. Life is: the most important aim of the universe; and its greatest result; and its most brilliant light; and its subtlest leaven; and its distilled essence; and its most perfect fruit; and its most...

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The Purpose Of Life

The Purpose Of Life This article covers the answer to the question: What Is The Purpose Of Life? Do you suppose purpose of your life is restricted to following the good life according to the requisites of civilization, and, if you will excuse the expression, to gratifying the physical appetites?...

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The Reality Of The Worship

The Reality Of The Worship My dear friend! If you want to understand a little about the talisman of the wisdom of the world and the riddle of man’s creation and the mystery of the reality of the worship, then consider this short comparison together with my own soul. Once...

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Women In The Bible

Women In The Bible The women in the Bible are rarely mentioned by name, with named women representing only 5.5 to 8 percent of the total of all named characters, male and female. This suggests that women were not usually in the forefront of public life. Those women that are named,...

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Women In The Quran

Women In The Quran Women in the Quran are important characters and subjects of discussion in the stories and morals taught in Islam. Some of the women in the Quran are portrayed in a positive light, while others are condemned for their actions. Mary (Maryam – مريم) is the only...

Amy Eilberg, the first Conservative female rabbi, at her ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary, 1985. Copyright Joyce Culver.

Women In Judaism

Women In Judaism The role of women in Judaism is determined by the Hebrew Bible, the Oral Law (the corpus of rabbinic literature), by custom, and by cultural factors. Although the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature mention various female role models, religious law treats women differently in various circumstances. Gender has a bearing on familial...

The general women’s meeting is open for all women and girls over the age of 8 in the LDS Church. (Mormon Newsroom)

Mormonism And Women

Mormonism And Women This article covers the relationship between Mormonism and women. The status of women in Mormonism has been a source of public debate since before the death of Joseph Smith in 1844. Various denominations within the Latter Day Saint movement have taken different paths on the subject of women and...

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Women In Buddhism

Women In Buddhism Women in Buddhism is a topic that can be approached from varied perspectives including those of theology, history, anthropology and feminism. Topical interests include the theological status of women, the treatment of women in Buddhist societies at home and in public, the history of women in Buddhism,...

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Women In Hinduism

Women In Hinduism Ancient and medieval era Hindu texts present a diverse picture of the duties and rights of women in Hinduism. Hindu texts present diverse and conflicting views on the position of women, ranging from feminine leadership as the highest goddess, to limiting her role to an obedient daughter, housewife...

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Women In Sikhism

Women In Sikhism The role of women in Sikhism is outlined in the Sikh scriptures, which state that women are equal to men. The principles of Sikhism state that women have the same souls as men and thus possess an equal right to cultivate their spirituality with equal chances of achieving salvation. Woman can participate...

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Woman

Woman A woman is a female human being. The word woman is usually reserved for an adult; girl is the usual term for a female child or adolescent. The plural women is also sometimes used for female humans, regardless of age, as in phrases such as “women’s rights“. Typically, a woman has two X chromosomes and is capable of pregnancy and giving...

Marriage

Marriage

Marriage Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage). The definition of marriage varies around the world not only between cultures and...

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Children’s Rights

Children’s Rights Children’s rights are the human rights of children with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors. The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines a child as “any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the...

Men’s Rights Movement

Men’s Rights Movement The men’s rights movement (MRM) consists of a variety of groups and individuals who focus on general social issues and specific government services which they claim adversely impact, or in some cases structurally discriminate against, men. Common topics debated within the men’s rights movement include family law, parenting,...

Reproductive Rights

Reproductive Rights

Reproductive Rights Reproductive rights are legal rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health that vary amongst countries around the world. The World Health Organization defines reproductive rights as follows: Reproductive rights rest on the recognition of the basic right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children...