Whats the meaning of life?

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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

The meaning of life is what we make of it. There is no definate answer to this question. We can only do what we feel is the right thing for our own meaning of life and hope it works.

Answer 3

I guess there's no one real answer to this question. It varies to people since we have different experiences including the environment we are in, our culture, the values that you've learned, your life span development, etc. Is it really more important to know the meaning of life? why not give meaning to it in a positive way instead..?:-)

Answer 4

The old "What is the meaning of life?" question. Again.Well, I'll say it just one more time:It is or isn't more than just eating, breathing, drinking and scrooing. It's sewing and sowing, banking and baking, learning and forgetting. It's singing and swinging,lying and lieing, exulting and fretting. It is living and it surely is dieing.

Answer 5

Pippi...you tell me! And you can spell so well now. Just kidding. I was obsessed with Pippi as a kid.
Yes,...I found the meaning of life. Two pregnancies and a wonderful husband.

Answer 6

It depends on your viewpoint, and religious (or lack thereof) beliefs. You'll get a variety of answers depending on the two things I posted, and they could all be right for the most part.

I would just say live life to its fullest, and do what you can to help others out.

Answer 7

the meaning of life is a secret. If we knew what it was, life wouldnt be worth living. Its our destiny to search for it!

Answer 8

To experience LOVE. Pure love, which usually is learned thru gratitude, acceptance, forgivness, and kindness. To love the self unconditionally, and to do the same to everyone whom crosses our paths. So my answer is to experience love.
And yes I have found it, it comes and it goes.. the point is to continue to redirect yourself once you find you have strayed off the path of love.

Answer 9

Whats the meaning of life?

You don't get out alive & you don't get your money back!

Answer 10

The meaning of "Life" is "Choice and You".

Answer 11

Each person has their own definition of life. It is different for each person. Iam still searching for mine