whats the meaning of life ???

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

To let God live your life through you. Sure, you got the elements of this life. To worship HIm in Spirit and in Truth. Love God and love His people. That is the meaning to this life. Help others come to the full knowledge of who His Son is and what He did. There is so much more to this life than just living and dying. So much more meaning than just existing. Life is but a moment but then poof your moment is gone. So, live for what is today for you have no idea if tomorrow will show up.

Answer 3

In exactly 87 1/3 years, we will learn how right Douglas Adams really was. Somewhere in the 42nd strand in our DNA sequence is the precise location of the meaning of life. We're on strand #6 right now. It took just over 3000 years to figure our the first 5 but I have faith we're building up steam and our skill and understanding will be exponential in coming decades. I'll get back to you in 87 1/3 years and one day and let you know the answer.....talk to you later!

Answer 4

(I wrote this a bit ago, but it still applies- Keep in mind this is the meaning of ALL life. Finding meaning IN your life is another subject entirely.)

The meaning of Life


Well this has come up in conversation a few times recently, and not all of my own volution. I keep hearing about kids wanting to kill themselves, so maybe this will help those of you who are feeling a bit lost.

The point of Life
There are many things all life has in common, but generally they can all be linked back to one specific thing that life does constantly, and consistently. Life creates order from chaos.

When you breathe, when you reproduce, when you think.

When you do anything at all, you take the nether of chaos and turn it into a structured, ordered thing through the process of creation.



The Meaning of Life
The meaning of life is to experience that which we create.





Lifes role explained
The Big Bang cosmological model of the universe contains a gravitational singularity at the start of time (t=0). At the "Big Bang Singularity," the model predicts that the density of the universe and the curvature of space-time are paradoxically infinite.
A singularity has a finite mass but an infinitely small volume and infinitely large density. wikipedia 2006



If the start of time is a moment of singularity than we can say that the start of this worlds existence is a moment where all things are together. At this start they are so dense and small that everything we know to be true breaks apart. In this moment, literally anything could happen. In fact, at this moment it could be said all things are happening. If a moment is infinite than it is a moment that contains everything that has happened, ever will happen, and is happening now- as time is relative to distance.


The big bang is the moment after a singularity; it is when singularity is broken up from order and structure into chaos.

From that chaos life begins to make order until it completes its task.

The task of creating order from chaos. To understand why we do this we must look at what order truly is.

Order in the dictionary has many meanings, but almost all of them can be summed up in the following way. The act of bringing things together, the act of unifying thoughts, or physical devices.



Once the task of converting chaos to order is complete all things will have come together. If everything were to come back together it would become one. If everything were one it would be singular- completing the cycle. From order to chaos and back into order. Repeated indefinitely, infinitely. This is our destination, and at some point we will reach it no matter what. We are guaranteed this.

References
Wikipedia 05/2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gravitation...


So anyway, take it for what it is. It won't solve all of life's little nuances but at least you can rest easy knowing that you are already doing exactly what it is you are supposed to be doing.

-k

Answer 5

The Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything is "42"

Answer 6

To live your life and eventually learn the meaning of life

Answer 7

42

Answer 8

42

Answer 9

a journey on which only all people except u can have total control of. the 14th century french revolutionist, Voltaire Rosseau said, 'man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.'

so as far as i know life is a journey where one should stand up to what they beleive irrespective of whatever happens and no matter how many obstacles come in ones path. get over the hurdles and u will be a winner in the end.

Answer 10

To obtain perfection and love Our Heavenly Father with all our heart soul and might. To love our neighbor as our self and be willing to serve each other. Not to judge unless we are appointed to judge by the creator through the authority of his house. This is a very high office and not just anyone can hold it. To teach our children not to hate. Show compassion for every one. To know that all people are to live by the same Laws. To eat clean food. Not to trespass against anyone, not even a child. Always ask the owner to use any thing that dose not belong to you, this will stop war. This will bring life. This is what the Creator want's for all of us.

Answer 11

For the philosophers...it's 42
For the ambitious....'the more bread you have ,the less **** you have to eat'
For the materialists....he/she with the most toys wins
For the religious souls...their heaven and hell...
For me...it's all shadows and light..the closer you get to death,the meaning of life doesn't hold the same attraction it did when you were ...Young..but the universe willing I intend to live a long life just to annoy the bastards who try and get up my nose..