what is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

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"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

You are seeking the meaning of life? I'm afraid that you will be disappointed. Accept, even key to, living in the here and now. Make every experience as intense as possible. You will find that you have no time or desire to ask such questions.

Answer 3

Life=having a living room.
Sex=having a bed room
Bath=singing in a bath room
Kichen=cooking in a hot room

Answer 4

how fragile life is. freak accidents, motorcycle accidents, brain tumours. brains splattered on the platform, mangled bones, mothers gone mad. some dun even get the chance to reach their 20th bdae. to think i had thoughts of throwing away my life. thank You for stopping me then. felt really lucky for simply being alive, breathing n standing in the cabin wif my dear frens ard me crapping together.
life. a passing shadow, a candle in the wind. birth, a sunrise. death, a sunset. dust to dust, ashes to ashes.

sometimes i feel that life is an endless struggle, against the thgs dat are beyond our control and for the thgs dat we wanna keep close to our hearts. countless chances forsaken, silent tears of regret. their stories make me wanna cry. such twisted family backgrds. truly unexpected. children are the innocent ones that suffer frm broken marriages. nobody ever wanted to be born into a shitty family. but i guess no mothers want their kids to hate them. how do they tolerate such psychotic behaviour. it leaves emotional and physical scars. marks on the skin will fade, but the emotional turmoil could last a lifetime.

Answer 5

What is the meaning of a cloud, or a leaf, or the wing of a dragonfly? Maybe there is no inherent meaning and they just are. Instead of looking for something that isn't there, give meaning by your thoughts and actions.

Answer 6

The meaning and/or purpose of life is to create.

Answer 7

the meaning of life is that you have an aim in life and every day approaches you from that aim.

Answer 8

Life has no meaning. It merely has existence, then non-existence..

What freedom!

Answer 9

42, it's the answer to life, the universe and, everything.

Answer 10

Time, Decisions & Secrets.

Answer 11

life is everything u wanted once u get through your obstacles..

......hard but good sailing.....get and enjoy life by adoring every part of it