The "Why" questions?

What are we really asking when we ask about the meaning of life? Partly, it seems we are talking about our relationship with the rest of the universe, who we are and how we came to be here. It seeks for a rational reason to our existence.
The question “What is the meaning of life” opens the doors to asking any of the following inquiries,

1.Why does the universe exist
2.Why is there something rather than nothing? Is there some plan for the universe?
3.Why do humans exist? Do they exist for some purpose? If so, what is it?
4.Why do I exist? Do I exist for some purpose? If so, how am I to find what it is? If not, how can life have any significance or value?
5. Can we create our own meaning?
6. Is there any purpose in suffering and Pain.
7. Is it life worth living?

Meaning looks for a reference beyond itself and is I believe in impossible without an eternal interpretation to reality. Meaning is a concept that can only be grasped by the intellect. Some people believe that you can create your own meaning and purpose for life, but I will show latter why I believe this is not possible.
For now it is sufficient to say that whenever a culture fails to supply an answer to the meaning of life and questions of what we should believe and why we should believe them, no action seems justifiable. The question “Why’ does not give us a convincing answer. As a result all actions and beliefs seem arbitrary or subjective. There are no answers, only choices. Choices are instrumental acts to achieve meaningful ends, but when those ends lack justification, choice is arbitrary and meaningless. In a world without meaning, choice is a futile gesture.

Wilfred Cantwell Smith; The intellectual problem of the modern world is how to be a relativist without being a nihilist.

Richard Tarnas; Our psychological and spiritual predisposition’s are absurdly at variance with the world revealed by our scientific method. We seem to receive two messages from our existential situation; on the one hand, strive give one self to the quest for meaning and spiritual fulfillment, but on the other hand, know that the universe of whose substance we are derived is entirely indifferent to that quest, soulless in character, and nullifying in its effects. We are once aroused and crushed. For inexplicably absurdly, the Cosmo is inhuman, yet we are not. The situation is profoundly unintelligent.

For how is one to find meaning is a meaningless universe? How does one find his place in an impersonal irrational random universe, with no purpose or reason for anything or its reactions!

The problem with science is that it looks at the “How” questions instead of the why questions. To tell us what “is’ does not help us in finding why it should be. To look at a world and not even know if your thoughts are meaningful is to fall into disappear. To see a world that just “is’ with no explanation is to leave us in our insanity.