The meaning of life?

Life is what you make of it. There's not just one meaning. The world is different to each person, so each person's interpretation of life is different.

Personally, I think the purpose of life is to be happy. I don't believe that this is some kind of preparation life. Though I'm unsure about any sort of afterlife since there's no way I can really know if one exists, I just think of this as all I've got and I live it to the fullest.

No one can tell you what life means, though. Only you can decide for yourself what life means. But it's cool if you just wanted to see other people's opinions. It's always good to learn about people.

2006-08-17 05:13:56 · answer #1 · answered by :) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋

The meaning of life is definitley individual. For me, life is about, learning, loving, and sharing.

2006-08-17 05:17:01 · answer #2 · answered by JCW 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋

Hold on....

I'll Google it....

LOL

It's an individual thing. I can't answer FOR you. In your soul, deep down, you know.
For me? I want to be comfortable. And Life for me is doinf 200% to acheive that in each and every way I want to fufill it.

:) Adelaide

2006-08-17 05:11:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋

See the answers to my questions they are the meaning of life

2006-08-17 05:09:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋

i seen this question so many times. Love It For Ever(LIFE)

2006-08-17 05:10:25 · answer #5 · answered by ##$SoulStryker$## 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋

Understanding and knowing oneself

2006-08-17 05:12:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋

It's whatever you want to make out from it.

2006-08-17 05:37:32 · answer #7 · answered by Judas Rabbi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋

life meanz live nd let live

2006-08-17 05:11:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋

life is what you are living right now this very moment. you are living your life.

2006-08-17 05:09:31 · answer #9 · answered by laziedazie 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋

"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.

2006-08-17 14:17:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

The meaning of life?

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