Whats 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

It's funny how often someone is asking this question.
Apparently no satisfactory answer has yet to be found.
And, of course, I haven't the answer either. But,...
Knowing that most times the simplest answer is the best the first thought I had when I read your question was to look up the meaning in a good Websters dictionary. And,..
Although it isn't the answer your looking for it's probably the best answer you'll get.
Oh, I'm sure you'll get a lot of opinions but that's all it will be,... somebodies opinion.
I guess the bottom line is that the meaning of life is something different to all of us.
The older I get the more convinced I become that the meaning of life is simply to live it. No great shakes, tests or deep meanings, just your basic life, and unfortunately,..
With all the problems that come with trying to fit 5lbs.of crap into a 2lb box and,...
the luck of the draw.
Good luck in your search.
It seems it's one we all have to make.

Answer 3

It's just a temporary time to experience the physical aspect of your spiritual being within the earth plane. The main objective is to enjoy life as much as possible however difficult that may seem at times. Unfortunately some spirits are caught up in greed and the quest for power and control. If it weren't for them life would be easy.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

We were placed on this earth to be masters of all that is living and Dead.we are the Masters of the Universe(the earth?);unless you believwe in the existence of Aliens.
Having said that;our purpose on earth is to conserve and preserve all that is beautiful about mother earth,while trying to achieve better and more efficient ways to make our own lives comfortable,without inconveniencing other living things.

Answer 6

When you live to u'r own satisfaction while considering others happiness.....you find meaning in your own life. That will be the meaning of YOUR life.

Answer 7

Christmas tells us the meaning of life - the meaning of Christmas doesn't lie in having a lot of presents or enjoying fine food. The meaning of Christmas, instead, lies in being generous. In the eyes of faith, the meaning of life lies in being generous with one another because God is generous with us. At Christmas we discover again in Jesus that God is infinite generosity; and in God's generosity to us and our generosity to one another, we discover again the meaning of life.

Answer 8

that's an age old question. There is no pat answer....anyone's will count. No one has a specific answer.
Meaning of life, i.e. why are we here? to do the best we can.

Answer 9

the meaning of life is asking questions...if we don't we will never learn anything...life is a learning experience

Answer 10

Who tries to undrestand what the life is will never live
Albert camus