What is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

"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

That Is One Of Those questions That Can Never Be Answered.....No One Knows The Meaning Of Life...Not Even The Smartest Person Could Figure It Out. Like Jimmy Neutron! He Wouldnt Even Know!

Answer 3

You are born because your parents feel the need to reproduce. You grow up learning, you either meet someone or not, and have kids, or not... and then you grow older, watch your kids grow up, enjoy your grand children... and then die.

There's nothing definite in this world apart from death and taxes. People will always ask about the meaning of life because people just can't believe that we're just here to live our 60, 70, 80 or however many years... it's simple... we live our lives and that's it.

The meaning of it all, is what we make it for ourselves, as individuals.

Answer 4

The meaning of Life can be found in the dictionary. A good dictionary lists several meanings of Life. Enjoy.

Answer 5

The meaning of life is: If you find meaning to your life, or meaning in something or someone then that is the meaning of your life. I think it's all subjective. Then again who cares.

Answer 6

You grow up learning, you either meet someone or not, and have kids, or not... and then you grow older, watch your kids grow up, enjoy your grand children... and then die.

There's nothing definite in this world apart from death and taxes. People will always ask about the meaning of life because people just can't believe that we're just here to live our 60, 70, 80 or h

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Answer 9

Some of the meaning of life is to try to do something good while you are here. You know what they say, when you are born, you are crying. Live your life so that when you die, others are crying.

Answer 10

The meaning of life, is to experience living...an actual definition to existence, or purpose is defined by someones own terms.

Answer 11

You have to determine what your definitive purpose is.
Find out what it is and then live it by it.

The question with regards to the
"The meaning of life" has been asked since the beginning of
written history.