2006-06-13 09:53:43 · 25 answers · asked by Dan K 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I could never top this excellent answer that I received for a similar question (from YahooGuru4u), so I quote it here verbatim. Of course, I ruled out the answer "42."
"Darn you. You sucked me in with your question, then I get here and I see 42 is already taken. Now we really have to go on a trip and I'm without a towel. Well ok, let me see what I can come up with, shooting from the hip as it were.
My best guess is that the meaning of life, the universe and everything is "MORE". The quest for more seems to be at the center of all living creatures. All organizations be they organic or manmade seem to be trying to get "more". The universe itself is expanding, so I am told. As for "everything" anything that should happen to get created instantly becomes part of everything, so even everything seems to crave more. Yes I think I'll stick with the answer "MORE". What? Wait, just a minute, my wife is yelling something from the kitchen......
(long pause).....Hello I'm back again. My wife says the answer is "LESS" She says life is always moving toward death which by it's very nature is less life. The universe is made up of a limited quantity of everything and it is being used up also, so you have less now than in the past, and as for "everything" Well since everything gets used, you must have less of everything now than there was in the beginning.
So my wife and I will agree to disagree and say that the answer is: More or Less, or possibly More and Less. I guess that's pretty much the same as 42 because 4 is more and 2 is less. I'm getting a pain just behind my left eye from all of this thinking.
What!? Just a minute, my wife is yelling again!........ I'm back. She said I'd better get off this Yahoo Answers thing and come to the table if I want any dinner. I told her that I'll never have to come back to Yahoo Answers again because I just pretty much summed up life, the universe and everything. I'd better hurry if I want more to eat and less yelling. So long and thanks for all the fishes."
Happy Answering,
~Tia~
Live from the big, purple brain
2006-06-13 13:39:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 2⤋
What makes you think life needs or requires a meaning? Life is what it is no more, no meaning at all. That means you can place whatever meaning you like to your own life. Its up to you.
2006-06-13 09:55:29 · answer #2 · answered by patrick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure, but now that you have posed this uniquely original question I shall ponder the answer for the rest of my life. Better yet, I will build a super computer, give the computer some common name and charge the computer with the sole task of figuring out the answer to your question. Get back with me on this in a few years.
2006-06-13 10:10:58 · answer #3 · answered by martin b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is life without meaning?
2006-06-13 09:58:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is to have a chance to live it.
2006-06-13 09:56:10 · answer #5 · answered by POWER 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life(n): 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.
If more specifically you're asking about the purpose of life, it's living.
2006-06-13 10:00:14 · answer #6 · answered by Beardog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
42. And if we knew the meaning of life, there would be no point in living.
2006-06-13 09:57:33 · answer #7 · answered by treehugger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Monty Python movie.
2006-06-13 09:56:11 · answer #8 · answered by shukuken 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to those who doesn't want to love and knows no love... there is no meaning of life. there is only waiting for death.
but to those who knows love... life is to love and to receive love through ups and downs till the passing of this physical life and to reach the everlasting spiritual life after.
2006-06-13 10:17:09 · answer #9 · answered by D L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the meaning of life is the ability to ponder "what is the meaning of life?"
no other animal or being has the ability to think so vastly and imaginitively. at least no other being we know of thus far.
2006-06-13 10:10:29 · answer #10 · answered by turkeybacon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋