What is the meaning of life?

Question

Have you ever wondered what the meaning of life is? are we simply here to procreate and survive as long as possible. Why are we here? what is the real purpose? have you ever thought that people are alot like ants. We all do the same things, want relatively the same things and have the same end. I know everyone is different but in reality most of us live very similar lifes.
So tell me what is your purpose on this planet?

Answer 1

Life does not require meaning, it only requires to be lived.

Answer 2

The meaning of life is simple really it's your mission while your here to find the purpose for you that will make your life worth while and at the same time hopefully make others life worth while to. as for the exact purpose of you being here you will never know till your gone.But if you look back at somones life that has left us you actually in a wider sense look at it you can see what there purpose was. and others that know you will be able to do the same. Knowing the answer to this question during your time here can actually change the purpose of your life. So the best way you can find that answer is be passionate about your life make it count for something possitive...........

Answer 3

Our purpose is the main subject discussed among the Greek Muses themselves. They flutter around us and try to tell us our purpose all the time. What they are trying to do is inspire us.

But we have a problem. They have a different language than we do and we don't understand their message. Instead o understanding and translating their message, we hear music --Muse + ic = the language of the Muses.

I have an answer but it's not in words and only those TRAINED to ACCEPT inspiration can get any inkling of it. The training to accept inspiration is identical to the training to weed out bullsh*t and manipulation.

Here's a newspaper article on my seminar:

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If you're interested, email me. The urban coyote motto comes from a rock song --"We will --we will!-- rock you!"

Answer 4

There are many messages being presented and many referenced in the answers. So let me describe a simple example.

You are on a path. It started with birth and it will end in death. The fact that you are here means you have start. There are many roads to choice, and when you choose a road it will become part of your path, your journey. What is now before you is a lot of roads, and the next choice is yours.

You wish to find the true meaning of life, purpose on earth, and an understanding of what the world it. So what road is that? And how do you choose a road that finds them. Many roads, your choice.

Let's start with a simple road: Do I exist? Answer I think therefore I am. So thought provides an explanation of your path. Next road; Does God exist? Now we are stuck. Is there a proof that God exists? Remember not allow roads use God, the road to enlightenment is one of them.

Believe it or not, the roads that uses the bible, does not answer this question, it assumes it. But is this the right. Eventually, only the concept of belief will get unstuck and moving to your path.

So what do you believe, will help you choice a road. A road to truth? A road to meaning? A road to purpose? An understanding of how the world works. But what do you believe?

Now to separate roads, I would like to divide them into two types: Roads based on what God reveals (revelation) and roads based on what man observes (scientific method). What God reveals and what man observes does not always agree. For example, no matter what man observes, he cannot observe God (God is spirit).

I am sure that the God reveal roads will be discussed. All of the require belief. (Remember, what do you believe?) And they have all the answers to your questions, but to make those roads apart of your path, you must choice one, and to choice one you have to believe. [For example, the bible is not a conversation manual but the word of God as given to the prophets. To choice that road, you have to believe the assumption, God exists.]

Let talk about roads where man observes. You can not claim that there is no God, because you can not claim there is God. At best you can say you don't know. So lets talk about the meaning of life. What has man observed? There are many books however one cames to mind, Man Search for Meaning by Frankl. You can choose this road by reading the book. It means you have travel farther, but you will need more roads. Why are we here road? Science has documented its theories that starting at the small chemical compound, we will evolve to where we are? This is a theory explaining observed facts. It does not tell us anything except we are in a system that will produce man over time. So this roads answer why we are here (or better yet how we got here. The roads that answer what makes the world what it is consist of understand where we came from (history, geography), but never answers how we can make it better.

I presented a brief list of roads that you can use on your path. I have combined religious roads and worldly roads. Most of us use roads from both (revealed and observed). So there you have a sample of roads that you can choice, how you make that decision is up to you.

Answer 5

Here is from Buckminster Fuller: "I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe."

42 is a close second.

Answer 6

Depends. If you are ready to commit to taking a step that will change your life, that you can never return from, where you will be enlightened by the real world and absorbed into something greater than you have ever seen before, then i can show you the path to truth and freedom. Follow the blue bunny and i'll meet you on the other side... Otherwise, its 42.

Answer 7

Watch the "Hostel". In the beginning, everything is kind of pleasant. But the sinister nature of life becomes apparent much later.

There definitely is a purpose. But I'm a afraid the current structure and function of the brain doesn't allow to get at it.

So genetic engineering is our only hope.

Answer 8

42

Answer 9

no one knows exactly what the meaning to life is but if you want some answers on what it is you should maybe try reading a bible or talking to a pastor or minister and maybe some things could be cleared up besides do you really want to know that meaning of it anyway (not saying you shouldnt still talk to a pastor or read the bible) but have you ever seen a kewl magic trik and learned how to do it, it wasnt very amazing afterwards huh?

Answer 10

If we ever find that out we will do something stupid with it and BAM our universe collapses, so make like an amarican and stop thinking.
the suits/feds. would prefer that, i on the other hand do not agree with them and think that the answer should be ansewered by iguanas , not mice (responce to 42)