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

fiath in god is the most important thing
there is no real life with out faith

if u believe in god you will know what is the meaning of life ?

hmmm lets say
study and graduate
improving your self
having friends
love your family and all other human
find your partener then marry him/her
living together respect each other and sharing feelings and goals and every thing
bring children
then a new circle will start agin

then all will die

then the other life (the real life ) will start
heaven or hell

Answer 3

Ah, the age old question. It's been debated for years but it's still argued today. No one can really seem to find a satisfactory answer to this. (Collectively) Therefore, I've come to the conclusion that each person must find their own answer to it. For me, it's about the journey. Living, loving, laughing, crying, sharing, and learning.

Maybe someday we might figure out the point to it all, and finally get an answer to this that will satisfy everyone. But until then, you're going to get many different answers.

Answer 4

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Answer 6

It's meaningless till you choose to give meaning to it. And the meaning varies to different people undergoing at how many stages in life.

I choose to give meaning of life in positive light. Because that's only how I can elevate myself from the negatives we see around us.

Life is beautiful. Because life gives us the chance to understand our unique self in relation to God. It is beautiful because others choose not to believe in God instead depend so much in their own knowledge. It is beautiful because we are all here playing our individual role together and experience the emotional component of life.

Simply put, Life is overwhelmingly beautiful.

Answer 7

What is the meaning of the Chair I'm sitting in??? This type of question doesn't make much sense...

The better question would be, "What is the purpose of life?" To which I would respond, "The purpose of life is to make yourself happy, and learn about our universe."

Answer 8

It is said that spirits are lined up in the spirit world, wanting to
get here, so they can strip thier spirits of things like false-pride, self-righteousness, and hypocrisy. The old "walk a mile in somebody elses shoes, before you criticize him." Oddly enough, this material world, with the selfish nature of the physical body, makes this one of the hardest worlds to do that in.

Answer 9

This is a question that you have to answer for yourself. We all have a place & a purpose in this life, it's up to each individual to find their own way & their own meaning. I do believe that we are all here to learn.

Answer 10

Danila says Life for life.
To me search while you can, ask while you have questions, to feel until you're unable to, to understand nothing and find peace in that.
:)

Answer 11

life is a station to make your profile for your infinite life?
if you love people ,help them , don't hurt them , learn something useful to them and keep your pray so you will be one of the winners