is the meaning of life about surviving and reproducing?

Question

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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

this is totally unhappy. Why would not journey the staggering variety of existence, the sentiments and sensations in touch in each and all of the above be a element in and of itself? in certainty, if there is an eternity to come again, would not it render this temporary existence greater meaningless and much less poignant? Why stay in any respect, whilst eternity awaits? the affection, tears, laughs, pains, the introduction of paintings or of recent existence is barely some form of front examination for eternity? Wow, how very unhappy. Edit: confident, the repetitive nature of doing laundry or filling out insurance varieties frequently precipitates an existential disaster for me, too. although, the candy unguarded moments of organic journey, like top now, the scent of a sparkling autumn in the air, scenting timber smoke from fireplaces quite than wildfires for the 1st time in six months, frequently manages to make up for it, a minimum of for me.

Answer 3

Primarily, yes.

Survival ensures reproduction. Reproduction produces the variety of life necessary to support the change of life into more complex and intelligent beings. Reproduction is where the changes occur that eventually form new species.

The end result seems to be a being who experiences the life of the spirit, in the flesh. That appears to be the ultimate goal of life, reproduction, and evolution.

Answer 4

Why are we here? People have long wondered about the meaning of life on earth. They have looked at the star-filled sky. They have admired a colorfulsunset and the beauty of the countryside. Thinking persons have reasoned that there must be some grand purpose to all these things. But often they have wondered where they fit in.(Psalm8:3,4)
At some time in life most people ask:Are we just to live a short time, get what we can out of life, and then die? Where are we really going? Is there more that we can expect than the brief cycle of birth, life and death? What will help us understand this matter is the answer to the question How did we get here? EVOLUTION OR CREATION?
In some places it is commonly taught that everything we see just happened by itself, that it came about by chance or accident. Over many millions of years, it is said life evolved, or developed from lower forms until finaly humans came into existance. In many parts of the earth this theory of evolution is taught as fact. But is it true that we came from an apelike beast that lived millions of years ago? Did this great universe just come about by accident?
The Bible says: "In the beginning God vreated the heavens and the earth."(Genesis1:1) And the facts of science agree that the heavens with their billions of stars, and our earth had a beginning. They were created. The movements of the stars and the planetsare so regular that even years in advance their position can be determined even years in advance with perfect accuracy. The stars and planets move in the universe according to the laws and principles of mathematics. A professor of mathematics from the University of Cambridge, PDirac, said, in the magazine Scientific American: "One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe."
The Bible states: "Know that Jehovah is God. It is he that has made us, and not we ourselves."(Psalm100:3) Our human body shows such wonderful design that one Bible writer was moved to say to God: "I shal laud you because in a fearinspiring way I am wonderfully made...My bones were not hidden from you when I was made in secret....Your eyes saw even the embryo of me, and all its parts were down in writing." (Psalm139:14-16) Ababy developsinside its mother in a wonderful way. Newsweek magazine said this : "It is quite simply a miracle." Then it added: "No technique can pinpoint the momentous time of conception. No scientist can tell what wonderous forces then take over to develop the organs and myriad of nerve network of a human embryo."
Think about our great universe,, as well as our own body with its wonderful construction and design. Sound reasoning should tell us that these things did not simply evolve or come by themselves. They had to have a Designer, a Creator. Consider other things that we see around us. When you are in your house ask yourself: Did my desk, lamp,bed, chair,table, walls, or even the house itself, evolve? ''or did they need a maker? Of course intelligent persons had to make them! In what way, then, can it be claimed that our much more complex universe and we ourselves did not require a maker? And if God put us here he surely had a reason for doing so.
It was not God's purpose for Adam and Eve to die after a while and live somewhere else. They were to stay here and take care of the earth and all its living things. As the Bible says 'God blessed them and said to them: be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth.' (Genesis1:28;2:15) Adam and Eve, as well as all the children they would have, could have been happy on earth forever doing the thingsthat God wanted them to do.
Notice that "God blessed them." He really cared about his earthly children. So as a loving Father he gave them instructions that were for their good. They would have found happiness in obeying those instructions. Jesus knew this and so later said:"Happy are those hearing the word of God and keeping it!"(Luke11:28) Jesus kept Gods word. "I always do the things pleasing to him,"he said(John8:29) This is the key to the very reason we are here. It is to have full, happy lives by living in harmony withGod's will. It will give real meaning to our lives now, to serve Jehovah. And by doing so we will be putting ourselves in line to live forever in Paradise earth.(Psalm37

Answer 5

The meaning of life is to serve God!
Then we get to go to the Happy Land when we die!

Answer 6

Basically. I also like to tack on another meaning myself ('cause I can), making sure your children grow up to be happy, healthy and well-adapted adults.

Answer 7

You are the one who determines the meaning of your life. No one and nothing else.

Answer 8

Be fruitful and multiply.
I Corinthians 13;8a, Love never fails!!!!!

Answer 9

There is not meaning on those.

Answer 10

For me - no!
For u - I do not know!
for others - I am not interested!