2006-08-21 18:59:23 · 13 answers · asked by Vijay P 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
"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.
2006-08-22 13:15:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is love.. it is love...that makes the world go round, some one said. Human life is nothing but a co-existence of individuals. No man can live in this world alone. You develop a bond in human relations and that makes the life more meaningful. A life minus love becomes a drudgery. You become an incorrigible misanthrope, leading a lonely life. How nice it is know that there is some body who loves you and cares for you! A life is never worth living if there has not been any occasion for loving and being loved. All the fun and drama in this life is spun around this fundamental of emotions, i.e. LOVE.
Let all love and be loved.
2006-08-22 23:47:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life can't survive without LOVe.
2006-08-21 19:13:05 · answer #3 · answered by richel 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The meaning of life is different for everyone. And there is no life without love. We are constantly surrounded by love - some people call it god, I call it the Universe - it holds things up, and keeps things going.
2006-08-21 19:05:42 · answer #4 · answered by Ashleigh 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We can live with out love. But life cannot live without love. Frankly speaking human being is made up of flesh and bone and controlled by emotions and feelings. He is the victim of emotions. If he doesn't feel love he will never have sex with opposite gender and there by lead to reproduction, if a mother doesn't feel love towards her baby she will never try to conceive. It is the love to pamper and see the beautiful face of the offspring they try to produce and brought up the child. IF there is no love we tend to kill each other. Why we kill others, because we hate others. Therefore love carry forward life and hate ends life.
So we can live without love but life in its form cannot survive without love.
2006-08-21 19:22:20 · answer #5 · answered by PRASHANT N 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Life=Love. So without love, life is zero.
2006-08-22 02:54:26 · answer #6 · answered by winner p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're referring to your own life, it has whatever meaning you give it. And yes, there can be life without love.
2006-08-21 20:06:02 · answer #7 · answered by yahoohoo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is what life is about. So, I would think the answer is no. Eventually sickness would overrule
2006-08-25 10:58:31 · answer #8 · answered by kbear1274 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
life did survive so far on old good "prosper and multiply" meaning.
Love is kinda like Santa-Claus - just a metaphor for good things that come through somebody's hard work.
2006-08-21 19:04:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
42, and sure we could live without love, but i dont know if it would work for us or against us. it surely wouldnt be as interesting. people are Always searching for love. if we didnt need or know it, what would we do with all our free time?
2006-08-21 19:06:48 · answer #10 · answered by motoson 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes,its just lonely without someone to share it with.
2006-08-25 17:34:32 · answer #11 · answered by mustang 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋