what is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

http://www.answers.com/MEANING%20OF%20LIFE

"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 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 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 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)
* ...still some do not even think there is any purpose whatsoever (see nihilism)
* ...(This is actually an extension of the point immediately above) There is no inherent meaning to life, existence, the universe, etc. They exist because they can. However, humans appear to inately give meaning, usually many, often conflicting, to what they are conscious of. So, to each individual, the "meaning of life" is whatever they decide it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid.

Answer 2

I can't believe no one gave you the Ultimate Answer!

42

According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, researchers from a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings constructed the second greatest computer in all of time and space, Deep Thought, to calculate the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. After seven and a half million years of pondering the question, Deep Thought provides the answer: "forty-two." The reaction:

"Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"

"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."


Don't believe me?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42

Answer 3

The meaning of life is to learn to be Real.

Answer 4

Life has no meaning. This planet is basicly a rock undergoing a complex chemical reaction (like the rest of the universe) in which we are a part of.

Answer 5

I first understood the meaning of life looking through the eyes of my first baby girl.

Answer 6

42, according to The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy lol

Answer 7

The full meaning only becomes apparent when you come to know your Creator.

Jesus said, "I am the Way, The Truth, and The Life....!

Get to know Him and you will know the meaning of Life.

"I am come that they may have life and have it more abundantly".
-- Jesus

Answer 8

We're here for God- we were made by Him and for Him- To give Him all the glory and credit for His Creation, and dying on the cross to redeem us back to Him, after we messed up and sin was unleashed in the world.
God is glorified most when we enjoy Him and His greatness!
And we are satisfied fully as we were made to be- when we throw off all that hinders, and distracts us from seeing God's greatness, and love Christ! :)

Answer 9

Whatever you choose to make of the time you have on this earth...
It is entirely up to you :-)
I hope you choose the good, the fun, and all the experiences life has to offer :-)

Answer 10

the meaning of life is to contribute to society and to have fun. you have to live your dreams to be alive

Answer 11

Not sure Hum a few bars.
Tammi Dee