what is the meaning of life and how big is everything?

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

Life is what we make it. It has its ups and downs. And its not at all times a bed full of roses. Everything is so big, that you cannot even see all of it.

Answer 3

Life has no meaning, no purpose ,no end . Everything is quite small. Our entire universe exists in the toe jam of the creator and He is about to wash his feet.

Answer 4

TO ME IT'S FINDING OUT WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE ACCOMPLISHING THINGS IN LIFE HOW TO PASS ON WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED AND YOUR PURPOSE IN LIFE AND AT LEAST BEING ABLE TO TOWARDS END OF LIFE FEELING FULFILLED WHICH MEANS EVERYTHING IS BIG

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The meaning of life to me is that we are here to learn to love and respect ourselves for who we really are and to learn from our mistakes so that we can understand and help others in similar situations. We are also here to learn how to follow our hearts and to believe in ourselves and our dreams and make them come true and to shine our light into the world and help others without expecting anything in return.

Answer 7

To me the meaning of life is living everyday to it's fullest and not having any regrets....and I have no Idea what you mean by the last part....:)

Answer 8

Ever heard of "the wisdom of Solomon"?
Read the very short book of Ecclesiastes in the bible if you are seriously looking for insight and wisdom. This is the best work of lit on the subject that I am aware of.

Answer 9

the meaning of life is diferent for every single living thing.
and nothing is big if your break it down to it's simplist form..

Answer 10

meaning of life eat drink poop pee repeat not in that order everything is 12 inches and then repeats

Answer 11

Life is sacred and big is an illusion.