Whats the meaning of life, what is the purpose of living?.?

Answer 1

Life is what you make of it. We're all here for a reason, but that reason is different for every single one of us. The purpose of us living is to fulfill the above, to find out the reason we're here and achieve the goal in satisfying ourselves that we've found out that reason and completed it.

Answer 2

The purpose of living, first of all, is the same for all living creatures. To procreate. All the rest is peripheral to that one objective.

The Meaning Of Life is a great film by the Python Team which you really should see before you die.

Answer 3

This is a very interesting question that has tried to have been answered for thousands of years.

(WARNING: Atheist views ahead!)

There is no 'meaning of life' in the universal scope of things.

When you ask about the meaning of something, you have to know what made it, why it was made, and how it is formed, and what its made from.

For something like a pot, this is very easy.

a person made it out of clay in a particular shape to hold water.


But this is a weird way to find the meaning of life.

no one really made it, it just came about.

but we can identify a couple of these things.

It is made of something. DNA

It in the form of a double helix.

But since its missing just one part of what we use to say that something has a purpose, it doesnt have a purpose.

But this isn't a bad thing!

Evolution has crafted organisms into purpose-finding being, and I dont think we should throw that away.

peace.

-Nick

Answer 4

It is its own meaning. Why do you feel the need to define it in other terms?

An analogy might be the answer to this question - What is the best map of europe? Answer - Europe itself. Anything else is merely a representation. Thats why any attempt to explain the universe in mathematical terms is always going to be second best. Anyway, the formulae would be so complicated that you would then be left trying to explain the formulae.

Human beings seem obsessed with trying to explain things - it's a form of arrogance, I fear.

If I could answer your question explicitly I would debase the concept of life because I would have proved that it can be explained in other terms.

Answer 5

As a child I remember learning in catachism class the answer to this question as taught was To Know, Love and Serve God. Nice pat answer for a child yet over the years I keep coming back to this answer as I live my life and try to make meaning out of it. First what does it mean to Know God? For me it has been about seeking to be aware in my life. To notice an be open to new experience. As human it is often easier to fall into habit and routine and get caught up with the daily grind and in so doing we lose connection with all the blessings living brings to us. To notice is to be like an artist seeing with a trained eye that which others miss. We have 5 senses taking in life every moment of our wakefulness yet choose often to limit what we notice. The more we teach ourselves to notice what we are given the more we open to knowing God. The second part of that answer is to love God. Part of those childhood lessons was that God is Love so how do we love Love? The word love is loaded and subject to misunderstanding as many often interconnect it with lust. Perhaps if we keep love simple and say what is it we experience when we really notice something in life? For a moment close your eyes and remember a time when you really enjoyed something with most of your senses. You were very alive. all your energy was alive and a part of you made the decision to take this experience in. In appreciating that moment one Loves God. Finally serve God? How does one do service to/for God if God can do anything then supposedly there is nothing we could do for God.(at least some would say.) This is where free will comes in. Moment by moment we have the choice to be awake and notice our life as we live it or we can give in to the temptation (call it Satan or ego or shadow or what have you) that allows us to float through life using and manipulating the gifts we're given constantly feeling disassociated from and in fear of this world we live in. So what is the meaning and purpose of life? To be open to life and to experience it as fully as possible each day and to be thankful for it.

Answer 6

Life is the bye product of a series of chemical reactions. You have evolved over time to become almost perfectly suited to ensure these chemical reactions continue for the longest possible time. So logically the meaning of life is to keep these chemical reactions going for the longest possible time. Now before you say that that is depressing consider this I am saying the meaning of life is to live, theists who say the meaning of life is to be with god are saying the meaning of life is to die. So now who is more depressing.

Answer 7

No reason, no purpose beyond itself.

Live the best life you can, experience as much as you can encompass, embrace life's pleasures, endure its pains. Be good and friendly to the people around you and put up with the arseholes as best you can. Live so that when you die people will remember you with love and regret your departure.

Answer 8

A simple question, but very difficult to answer. Men have asked this question from time immemorial, and he will continue to ask this question until the end of humanity.

So far nobody has found an answer. I do not know if he will ever.

I can add one more question: What difference would it have made if were not born?

Answer 9

Since you asked this in the religious section I will answer with a bible quote.
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.

Answer 10

The primary purpose of life is to learn how to Love. You will need to learn how to love if you want to succeed in your next life after your death.

Answer 11

If Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior, than your purpose would be to obey His commandments, Follow His teachings and examples. Your purpose would be eternal, and not of this world.