-(« SPIRITUALITY »):(« FOCUS ON THE MEANING OF LIFE IN A WORLD OF COMPETTION AND GLOBALISATION »!
-IT COULBE DEFINED AS A FEATURE DISTINGUISHING OBJECTS HAVING SIGNALISING AND SELF-SUSTAINING PROCESSES FROM THOSE THAT DO NOT,EITHER BECAUSE SUCH FUNCTIONS HAVE CEASED,OR BECAUSE THEY LACK SUCH FUNCTIONS AND ARE CLASSIFIED AS INANIMATE.
1-(« SCIENTIFC APPROACH »):
SEVERAL STUDIES SUGGEST THAT LIFE ON EARTH MAY HAVE STATED AS EARLY AS (4.25 BILLION )YEARS AGO OR EVEN EARLIER YET,(4.4 BILLION) YEARS AGO.THE MECHANISM BY WHICH LIFE BEGAN ON EARTH IS UNKNOWN. SINCE EMERGING,LIFE HAS EVOLVED INTO A VARIETY OF FORMS,WHICH BIOLOGISTS HAVE CLASSIFIED INTO A HIERACHY OF TAXA.THOUGH LIFE IS CONFIRMED ON LY ON EARTH,MANY THINK THAT EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE IS NOT ONLY PLAUSIBLE,BUT PROBABLE OR INEVITABLE.ACCORDING TO PANSPERMIA HYPOTHESIS,MICROSCOPIC LIFE EXISTS THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE,AND IS DISTRIBUTED BY METEROIDS,ASTEROIDS AND PLANETOIDS.BOTH PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION HAVE OFFERED INTERPRETATIONS AS TO HOW LIFE RELATES TO EXISTENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS,AND ON RELATED ISSUES SUCH AS LIFE STANCE,PURPOSE,CONCEPTION OF A « GOD » OR « GODS »,A SOUL OR AN AFTERLIFE. DIFFERENT CULTURES THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAD WIDELY VARYING APPROACHES TO THSES ISSUES.
-(2)(« PHILOSPHY AND RELIGION »):
THE MEANING OF LIFE IS A PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS OF EXISTENCE,SOCIAL TIES,CONSCIOUSNESS AND HAPPINESS.IT BORDERS ON MANY OTHER ISSUES,SUCH AS SYMBOLIC MEANING,ONTOLOGY,VALUE,PURPOSE,ETHICS, GOOD AND EVIL,FREE WILL, AND THE EXISTENCE OF ONE OR MULTIPLE « GODS »,CONCEPTIONS OF « GOD »,THE SOUL,AND THE AFTERLIFE.SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS FOCUS PRIMARILY ON DESCRIBING RELATED EMPRICAL FACTS ABOUT THE UNIVERSE,EXPLORING THE CONTEXT AND PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE « HOW OF LIFE ».MOREOVER AN ALTERNATIVE,HUMANISTIC APPROACH POSES THE QUESTION:( » WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE »?)THE VALUE OF THE QUESTION PERTAINING TO THE PURPOSE OF LIFE MAY COINCIDE WITH THE ACHIEVEMENT OF ULTIMATE REALITY,OR A FEELING OF ONESS,OR EVEN A FEELING OF SACREDNESS.
(3)-(« CHRISTIAN VIEW OF THE MEANING AND PURPOSE OF LIFE »)!
-« CHRISTIANITY » GIVES ONE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION.THE REASON THAT WE ARE HERE IS THAT « GOD » CREATED US TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.THIS IS WHY « GOD » CREATED A UNIVERSE FIT FOR HUMAN LIFE,AND WHY HE LAID DOWN GUIDELINES FOR HOW WE LIVE OUR LIVES.
-ACCORDING TO « CHRISTIANITY »,EACH OF US IS CREATED FOR COMMUNION WITH « GOD »; »GOD » WANTS TO KNOW US,TO LOVES US,TO REJOICE WITH US.
-« CHRISTIANITY » CONTINUES TO TELL US THAT BARRIER TO THIS RELATIONSHIP IS SIN,BUT THAT IN « JESUS-CHRIST », « GOD » HEALS THAT RELATIONSHIP,REMOVES THAT BARRIER, NO MATTER HOW GREAT IT HAS BECOME,RESTORES US.FAITH IN « GOD » AND IN « JESUS- CHRIST » IS THREFORE RIGHT AT THE HEART OF THE « CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION » OF THE MEANING OF LIFE AS THE MEANS OF ACHIEVING FULFILMENT.
(4)-(« ISMAMIC PERSPECTIVE »):
-TO A « MUSLIM », THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS (« IBADAH ») OR WORSHIP TO THE ONE TRUE « ALMIGHTY GOD » ON TERMS AND UNDER HIS CONDTIONS.THE TERM « WORSHIP » TO A( « MUSLIM ») INCLUDES ANY AND ALL ACTS OF OBEDIENCE TO ALMIGHTY (« ALLAH »).SO HIS PURPOSE IS A STANDING PURPOSE;WORSHIPPING ALLAH BY ACCEPTING ALLAH’S WILL OVER HIS OWN.
-THIS ACT OF (« IBADAH »)(WORSHIPPING,THANKING AND EXTOLLING THE GREATNESS « ALMIGHTY ALLAH » ON HIS TERMS AND CONDITIONS IS FOR THE « MUSLIM »,THROUGHOUT HIS WHOLE LIFE.
-HIS LIFE ON EARTH IS FULL OF PURPOSE AND IS TOTALLY MEANINGFUL WITHIN THE COMPLETE FRAMEWORK OF TOTAL SUBMISION.
-(« DOWN THE LINE, IT IS USELESS TO GAIN THE WORLD AND LOSE YOUR SOUL, BECAUSE JUDGEMENT DAYS WILL COME BY SOONER!LET’S THINK ABOUT IT TODAY BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!
(CLOSELY WITH « ROLAND JOSEPH TETTEH » IN (GHANA)-FROM « THE PHOENIX NEWSPAPER-ENGLAND »)(« THE TITLE » AND « THE CONCLUSION » ARE FROM THE « STAFF OF « MEDIA MIRROR »)