whats the meaning of life?

Answer 1

What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives. Some people believe that the meaning of life is one or more of the following:

Survival and temporal success

* ...to accumulate wealth and increase social status
* ...to compete or co-operate with others
* ...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
* ...to protect one's family, no matter the cost
* ...to gain and exercise power
* ...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
* ...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction
* ...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
* ...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
* ...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)

Wisdom and knowledge

* ...to be without question, or to keep asking questions
* ...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
* ...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes
* ...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
* ...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life
* ...to experience anything if not something in this world

Ethical

* ...to express compassion
* ...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
* ...to give and receive love
* ...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
* ...to serve others, or do good deeds
* ...to work for justice and democracy

Religious, spiritual and esoteric

* ...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
* ...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
* ...to become God, or God-like
* ...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God)
* ...to follow the "Golden Rule"
* ...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
* ...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
* ...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
* ...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God

Other

* ...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
* ...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human
* ...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
* ...to die, or become a martyr
* ...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general
* ...to live, and enjoy the passage of time
* ...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
* ...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny
* ...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others
* ...to seek and find beauty
* ...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
* ...still some do not even think there is any purpose whatsoever

Answer 2

To have an eternal, personal, loving relationship with God. As Solomon concluded of our duties:

Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

As C.S. Lewis said, "We are all eternal spirits in a world that tries to hide our true identities from us." My point is, God created us with an eternal perspective. This life is a testing ground to determine which of 2 eternal realities we will inhabit.

The meaning of this life is to find eternal life with God and to spend the rest of eternity growing in our relationship with Him.

Answer 3

the purpose of your or anybody's life is to reproduce and populate this world. there would be an end to this world and our job is to keep it flowing till the end. this is my view of life without any religious interference. My religion has more to offer then this but overall, I think this is what ever human can do the least. make a change for the good of humanity is optional but recommended.

Answer 4

life (lf) n. pl. lives (lvz)

1. The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.

2. The characteristic state or condition of a living organism.

Answer 5

Life is simply a means for the universe to attain greater entropy.

Answer 6

Life is something that me must spend happily and without sorrow...

Answer 7

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Answer 8

i agree with jzehoshua answer...

i just want to add that we are here to serve.. to do service to others.. as Jesus served... "for i come to serve and not to be served"..
so let us learn to serve others and grow more alike into God's image, that is, His character..

Answer 9

seek God and accept him into your heart as your Lord and Saviour and he will guide you towards your destined path

Answer 10

just be alive