What is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

Whatever you feel it should be. For instance, I think it is important for people to help each other for there to be a more productive and progressive society and by having that we can progress as a people in our knowledge and ability. We are here, we might as well learn as much as we can about who we are and the universe in which we live.

Answer 2

What is the meaning of life? The question itself contains a word that is a misnomer. The word "life" should actually read "death" since this existence that we all like to call "life" is really "death." We all reside in the world of the dead, in "Hades" or "Hell," if you will. And of course, the dead know nothing, hence the reason we're continually asking "What is the meaning of life?" Since we're also inquiring of the dead, we get no sure replies.

Those receiving the gift of life and resurrected will no longer have to ask "What is the meaning of life?" Being alive, they also have knowledge and the answer to the question before it's even asked.

Answer 3

Nobody should know the meaning of life..! One who knows - regrets and doesn't want to live...

Answer 4

Procreate and die with the most money, otherwise be good and try to make it to heaven or enjoy your life here being bad and going to hell, its a the ying yang.

Answer 5

42 - Douglas Adams

Answer 6

To reach immortality, once that happens all religions will disappear

Answer 7

i'm not sure if anybody has defined life...

they say budha had an answer to that question....

well.....its a beautiful question...keep it alive and it will lead you to fantastic revealations and discoveries...

Answer 8

To live it.

Answer 9

I love my life you should approach it because when you dye...........you have serious problems!

Answer 10

Watch Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, they answer this question in the movie hehe =) And here's some more:

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 die having succeeded in your purpose
...to live
...to protect one's family
...to gain and exercise power
...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual 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 expand one's perception of the 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 turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment and atonement
...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
...to become like 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
...to achieve rebirth in the Pure Land

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 have fun
...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)
...to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced (see Buddhism)
...still some do not even think there is any purpose whatsoever (see nihilism)
...as there is no intrinsic meaning to life, to each individual, the "meaning of life" is whatever he/she decides it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid.
...There is no meaning.
...Don't Die And Make Babies
An answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?" is that it is simply the ability to ask the question, "What is the meaning of life?"