RE: Doesn't answer the Question...

Is it possible, the answer is as simple as God and men are bad, refusing to believe, or maybe, as smart as we all claim to be, there is no God and we are just wandering around trying to figure out who we are, where we came from, and where we are going.

Truth is it's all opinion's based on what we feel is the truth. Nobody knows for sure, maybe there is no meaning to life or maybe there is only one God and a whole lot of folks like Moses wandering around lost. If you pick the right religion you live for ever, pick wrong and burn! Maybe we just turn to worm shit and go away.

The people who really scare me are the one's who claim to know. I pick Jesus, I guess because it's the easiest answer for me. Being born and raised in the Bible belt, I might just be a product of my environment. One thing about it, scottb will make you think!

Crap, I am still wandering, what is the meaning of life? Could one of you guys that scare me so much, share the answer?

Um, no. It was written by someone else, probably about 250 BCE according to modern scholars.

Umm no...Actually it was written by King Solomon, all it takes is reading the very first verse of the first chapter in the book (proving that my attempts for you to take consideration for my request to read the book were futile)

" The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem"

There is only one son of David that became King in Jersusalem. Granted I know that so called Bible scholars have been fighting over this point for decades...and will continue to fight over inconsequential points, Solomon, one of the wisest men ever to walk the earth would laugh at such discussion, also calling them vanity...before making any comments about the bible be sure you've read it, it makes for better discussion...

Do you have any justification for this belief, or is it just mindless "faith"? More to the point, even if there is some such entity, how does that give meaning to life?

Mindless faith is what people have had in this country (I'm assuming you live in the US) and in our sense of security and in the "goodness" of people, all of those things seem to be mindless to me...the bible defines faith as "...the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen..." I think this implies that faith is tangible and therefore must be based on something, namely the word of God. In any case this is not a bible discussion, its a discussion about the meaning of life.

First, while I agree that Brandon's answer isn't really much of an answer - I don't think yours is really any better.

I think you are correct in part...I think that my answer is better exclusively because it pays tribute to the actual question...thats all you can ask from an educated response right? Whether or not you agree is of no consequence...