Whatt 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

The universe, much less life, does not have a 'meaning' or 'purpose', because such specific entities are incompatible with the abstract a-priori logic that results in the existence of the universe and all things in it. Life only has a natural function- to survive. However, there are states of rightness and wrongness (i.e. justice and injustice). Though it is not the purpose of the universe or life to seek one or the other, it is advisable to make one's own purpose the creation of justice. Justice is a state of consciousness. It is the state in which a conscious being's degree of fine clear rightful intent versus crude blind wrongful intent is directly proportional to their degree of pleasurable satisfaction versus painful frustration of their desires, respectively, at a given moment.

Answer 3

The meaning or rather the definition of life is one that is constantly changing. Life can mean the acceptance of self and the ability to distinguish one from the surroundings. The understanding of ones needs and the ability or to be more specific, the will to survive. Sometimes 'the will to spread ones own kind' is also added to the definiton

Answer 4

42.
According 2 the Hitchhikers Guide 2 the Galaxy!

Answer 5

This is probably the most asked questions on Yahoo answers. Didn't you look at the other questions similar to it when you typed it in? Life is just that...life and the meaning is to live it. So quit surviving and start living it!

Answer 6

You theists are so unusual. meaning in life needs some form of authority to make demands? meaning of life is a dictate? a call for for devotion? you're appearing as though meaning became some form of ultimatum observed via a threat. That sounds thoroughly alien to me.

Answer 7

The meaning of life is different for everyone.
Don't worry., be happy. success in life has nothing to do with
what you achieve in life.success has only to do with the peace you find within you. your attitude. the willingness to accept and positively deal with what ever comes your way."everything in life is for the best in all possible worlds" Voltaire Candide. read it

Answer 8

The meaning of life is different for each person you have to find your meaning and then live it each day.

Answer 9

The meaning of life is the meaning that you give to it.

Answer 10

To take up the challenge that life gives you! And to live! If you weren't on Earth everything would change!

Answer 11

42 of course