what is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

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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

The Meaning of Life is to live. Life = Happiness, Sadness, sorrow, Wealth, Health,Love, Passion,Anger,Hate,Desire, Dark Side, Confusion, Annoyance...etc That's life....

Answer 3

Life is experienced by the spiritual being through the physical body. The meaning and goal of life is to transcend and realize this spiritual being and cease to experience life through the body but rather the true self, the spirit being.

Answer 4

The meaning of life is to love and serve God in this life, so that we may spend eternity with him in the next life.

Answer 5

The meaning of life is enjoying, enjoy nature, enjoy your family and Friends. learn to get up every time you fall. life is like a roller coaster, sometimes it brings us up and sometimes it brings us down. learn to live life before life lives you. have control of your life. the meaning of life is helping others, being kind to others, being you,give the best of us even when we feel we're not appreciated enough. being a survivor, a challenger , learn from our mistakes, and Never GIVE UP.
"Life is like a library owned by the author.
In it are a few books which he wrote himself,
but most of them were written for him."
Harry Emerson Fosdick

"To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."
Samuel Butler
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Answer 6

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Answer 7

life has no meaning why to figure this one out live the live and be happy in the moment leave the past as the blast and drop future like hot cake and miracles start take into the effect bless you

Answer 8

we had this very Q yesterday.
I can't put the same answer as U've put UR Q differently.
The meaning of Life?
Life's what U make it, have ethics, principles, morals & life should have meaning.
Behave like a D!ck & life will B hard.
Choices, think it comes down 2 personal choices.
:)

Answer 9

We are all here with a purpose, and not until we seek the Lord Jesus to know that purpose will our life ever truly have meaning.

Answer 10

It's a Monty Python Movie. It's prett good but 'The Life of Brian' is better.

Answer 11

Life is gift from God. It should be spent according to moral standard set by Him. We should work for peace and prosperity of humanity and have deep love and respect for our brothers. We should not quarrel among ourselves. Do not spread hate and disruption and harm others.