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It's pathetic, really, that some people's lives are so empty that they have to search for "meaning" in a book of ancient folklore. I'd feel sorry for them if they weren't always trying to drag the rest of us down with them.

Tell me then how life has meaning, if it ends with an eternal nonexistence? What are the joys of life amounted to? What has the charity done and love shown truly accomplish with an epoch of unconsciousness?

How can someone who does not believe in the after-life apply meaning in a short, and ultimately, useless life?

For a true Christian, someone with a living faith, who lives their lives expressing their love for God by serving their fellow humans, death brings an eternal sense of joy; an endless bliss without worry or shame; a life eternal.

For those who do not believe in this afterlife, with death comes nothingness, an eternal unconsciousness and endless non-existence.

If the end justifies the means, what value then, can life truly have without life after death?

By definition, there is no meaning in life unless there is a Creator of life. Meaning is a message that a creator is trying to get across. What is the meaning of a painting, a sculpture, a novel? Those all have creators. Now what is the meaning of two rocks on Mars? We invent things to do that give us a feeling of having purpose and meaning but it's not real.

We don't find meaning, we imagine it and pretend it's real.

Not really.

But I think it is definitely sad that there are others (on this very forum!) who actually believe that life is not fulfilling unless they put their time and energy into looking down upon others and their beliefs. Is that not far more sad?

Why is it that non-belief so often comes with such an emptiness that it requires finding someone presumed more pathetic to demean?

Of course, the advantage of doing so on R&S is that others who share that hobby (or is it a lifestyle?) are there to reinforce the behavior and distract any possible self-reflection that might lead one to contemplate the futile nature of such a pastime.

But see how easy it is to spin one's bigotry into something supposedly noble when sharing it with the equally bigoted?

(Not all believers in a faith system need a traditional god as the object of that faith. Indeed, narcissism is a religion that supplies it own god. And the Church of Narcissism is called.....an Internet forum.)

The fact that everything in the world, money, health, even family, can and and will be lost one day, but that no one can take away your relationship with God or eternal life is reason to believe that without God, there is nothing else worth living for. We appreciate these things and they bring us joy, but without God, it is worthless. I believe that. Call it what you may, but in the end, it doesn't matter what you say :)

Maybe, but I think that we sometimes have trouble remembering how different other people's lives are from our own and just assume they would be happier if they were more like us.

I know personally that my life has no meaning without God.

But I guess not everybody feels this way.

Non religious people have more meaning in my opinion. We can make serious decisions WITHOUT thinking what a man in the sky might think. Instead we make our decisions based on rational thinking. You shouldnt waste your entire life believing that a new one awaits you. You very well could be wrong. Live your life to the fullest, its short and could very well be the only one you get.

Life has no meaning. And Swamp Thing could kick your @$$.

It's an Alan Moore reference. Not totally serious.

well just think about it. If you believed that everything is about God, then it only makes sense that all meaning in life would revolve around Him. Right?

If you dont believe you probably think its silly. Like you do

Well, nihilists consider that life lacks meaning, with or without belief in... anything. To each his own, I guess.