Ask HN: What is the ultimate meaning of life?

Procreate.

I could share some of them. Not in complete detail, and trying to pick certain ones as there is certainly a wide variety in the experiences.

1) At 19 yo I was a college drop-out and living a double-life by dealing drugs at night and working in a chiropractor's office by day. At the lowest point in my life (that season) one day I was working at the office and began to feel terrible conviction for all bad things I'd ever done. I felt so bad that I went to lay down in a bed near closing time, the office manager, a Christian, came over and felt like praying for me. Intense story shortened: I felt the presence of God fill up the room, and the office manager was telling me during prayer "let Jesus take your sins", while in my mind I was thinking "no way I can let an innocent person take on all the bad things I've done", I theb heard a clear voice in my head saying "I already died for your sins, so you might as well let me take them from you". I couldn't argue against that, and when I let go it became a life-changing moment for me because I felt all guilt in life gone, and suddenly innocent again (forgiven). It changed my entire life radically, even my family and closest friends could tell the difference. There were no drugs involved in that experience at all.

After that, experiences include things like:

2) Having visions of things that would then happen. Minor things, not world-changing events. For example: I'd be praying, and start having a vision (vivid day-dream) of me meeting a person who would then share X problem with me, and me offering prayer, and them crying when I prayed, and that event play out just as I saw it a few hours later. It would be like me watching a movie and knowing what to do next because I had already seen it. "Ok, I'm supposed to pray for them, and they're going to start crying and have a life-changing moment." Would happen exactly as I saw it.

3) I once traveled on vacation to Machu Pichu in Peru, made a 2-day pit stop at Cusco (their ancient capital). The window of my hotel room had a view of another building which had an eye of Horus painting with an advertisement for prostitutes. The next night, after praying with barely any effort/intensity I heard a voice telling me "Go now!". Sounds crazy but I got dressed immediately, went out to the streets, and immediately kept hearing a voice as I walked, at midnight, down the streets of this strange city towards places I'd never been to before. I kept hearing instructions on when to turn right or left, and wondered if I was being led to something having to do with that eye of Horus. Well, eventually I found myaelf walking down an unlit street and getting the sense I was near, then came across a big house with big wooden doors, with the eye of Horus symbol on both sides. I felt like simply like praying over that place (I dod try knocking and no one opened). After a while I felt like I was done, walked out a different way and somehow found myself back at the hotel. I heard in my mind "mission accomplished." How can I walk, at midnight, down the steets of an ancient city thinking I'm going to end up in a property related to the eye of Horus, and actually end up there, only to walk back a different way and be back at my hotel? And I'm not talking about a 5 minute walk here.

4) I went to medical school to glorify God through medicine. When I applied for medical school I experienced a state of ecstasy for hours which I won't describe here. The first weekend on medical school campus I was going on a hike before church that morning, and asked God to show me that He was with me by leading me to read from the Bible what was going to be preached at church that morning. I heard "1 Peter 1". I got to the top of the hill I hiked, began to read that chapter, and my mind got busy daydreaming about the chapter. I looked at my watch and thought "Darn it, I have to get going...I only read the first 4 verses." When I got to church, the teacher (the pathology professor, haha) opened by saying "Today I'm going to share from 1 Peter 1, verses 1-4." Well, I'm either totally making these things up, or I'm not.

I could share more, like my meeting my wife, and so on, but I'll stop for now :)

These are select experiences over a decade. Certainly not my daily life, and on a daily basis you'd find I'm quite a grounded, logical person who prefers facts over emotions. But I have lived them, and I'm sure I'm not the only one full of such stories. They are what makes my faith, to me, logically true by means of many undeniable experiences that defy random chance. But it all began with nothing more than blind faith.