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

It's unknown whether there is an absolute meaning to life, given that we exist as relative. Or I should say, absolute meaning of life is based upon belief and faith. Some say life is meaningless beyond our relative meaning, some say we will never know if we know the absolute meaning of life if there is one, and others believe that life does have an absolute meaning.

There is in fact relative meaning in life. For example, if you plan to be great at a particluar thing, or if you want to marry a particular person, or you want to be like your parents, or you want to own a particular thing, etc. These little things that bring meaning to your life.

Answer 3

The meaning of life deals with the care and nurturing of your soul. Every action, every word, every thought, everything, contributes to that single product.

The proper care and nurturing of your soul involves three things, (1) seeking knowledge, truth, wisdom, (2) practicing love, caring for others, having a heart, and (3) relishing everything in this world that is beautiful. Surround yourself with beauty. Find beauty everwhere and in everyone. A flower may seem an impractical thing, but we take our children's hands and teach them to plant a flower.

This is all you need to know in the world, that is all there is know in the world. As you progress in your enlightenment then you will see that these three things become blended. Beauty comes truth, truth becomes beauty, and love becomes truth. They are all the same thing.

Answer 4

You will find meaning to life if you take the following steps:

1) Worship the Creator, rather than the creation.
2) Obey your impulse to do good to all.
3) Resist your impulsse to hurt all.
4) Very seriously study who Jesus of Nazareth was, if you conclude that he is the Son of God; make that conclusion publicly.

Answer 5

The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.
The characteristic state or condition of a living organism.
Living organisms considered as a group: plant life; marine life.
A living being, especially a person: an earthquake that claimed hundreds of lives.
The physical, mental, and spiritual experiences that constitute existence: the artistic life of a writer.

The interval of time between birth and death: She led a good, long life.
The interval of time between one's birth and the present: has had hay fever all his life.
A particular segment of one's life: my adolescent life.
The period from an occurrence until death: elected for life; paralyzed for life.
Slang. A sentence of imprisonment lasting till death.
The time for which something exists or functions: the useful life of a car.
A spiritual state regarded as a transcending of corporeal death.
An account of a person's life; a biography.
Human existence, relationships, or activity in general: real life; everyday life.

A manner of living: led a hard life.
A specific, characteristic manner of existence. Used of inanimate objects: “Great institutions seem to have a life of their own, independent of those who run them” (New Republic).
The activities and interests of a particular area or realm: musical life in New York.

A source of vitality; an animating force: She's the life of the show.
Liveliness or vitality; animation: a face that is full of life.

Something that actually exists regarded as a subject for an artist: painted from life.
Actual environment or reality; nature.

adj.
Of or relating to animate existence; involved in or necessary for living: life processes.
Continuing for a lifetime; lifelong: life partner; life imprisonment.
Using a living model as a subject for an artist: a life sculpture.

Answer 6

My meaning of life is to find what some would call a constant source of enlightenment. I find this in my music therefore my point is to be a musician. However My greater purpose is to help end the suffering in confusion among my fellow people of earth. Sadly in order to do this we would have to destroy world religions which is gonna be quite a task.

Answer 7

It´s a very deep question. I think nobody truly knows the meaning of life.

Answer 8

Free Love, and Nickel Beer. Jack

Answer 9

There is a Monty Python movie all about it.

Answer 10

not dead but alive and fulfilling dreams