what is 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

There are two perspectives of seeing things, one teleological and other mechanistic. In teleological perspective we try to understand the purpose and a design in a certain thing, while in mechanistic perspective we try to know the cause which led to an effect. The way I see it, life is a random happening. Few molecules of hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen combined together to form life. That's why there can be no ultimate meaning or purpose of life, but there can be many intermediate goals or ends, which we can choose according to our own aspirations.

Answer 3

Its whatever you want it to mean.
Different people take its meaning differently.
But you should try to make the most of it and hopefully along the way you will figure out the meaning of life.

Answer 4

Do the best you can with the time you've got. From the moment you are born, you begin to die. Once you die it does not matter what you learned, but what you taught. What will matter is how you encouraged others to emulate your example. What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone. What will matter is the memories that live in those who loved you. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a life that matters.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

God is Our purpose of life you see. Read a Purpose driven life by rick warren this book sheds a lot of light on our purpose in life really read it!

Answer 7

the meaning of life is to have fun and to be alive and to hang with ur friends ,and life is full of wonders and surprises

Answer 8

The meaning of life is simple,my young Padawan (ha ha)...

"In life, do glory to your family,
do honor to your friends,
do passion by your woman
and do havoc by your enemies."

Answer 9

Life is a magazine with really good articles and photographs.

Answer 10

I say it's to help as many people as possible, because if everyone has the same goal things would run much smoother! *rainbows form across the sky and it begins raining candy* lol

Answer 11

To get married and have kids? Maybe to spend it making others happy