Does any body know the meaning of life?

Answer 1

The meaning of life is to produce more life. At least that is what it does very well.

Answer 2

The meaning of life is whatever you want it to be. It's all up to you. The meaning of life for you, is not the same as the meaning of life for me, and the meaning of life for me, is not the same as the meaning of life for somebody else.

So what is life? To know the meaning of life, it would help to know what life is. Somebody once described it as organization from chaos. But that doesn't quite work, because a CRYSTAL could then be said to be alive.

And of course - there are people who don't like that definition - so the ability to reproduce was added to it. That's probably fine as far as nature is concerned. All that evolution cares about is whether or not you reproduce, and pass your DNA down to the next generation.

And that's fine for bacteria.

But for an intelligence such as man? The answer is a lot more complex. And at the same time? It's just as simple. The meaning of life for YOU - is whatever YOU want it to be.

Answer 3

(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 4

To give life meaning

Answer 5

The Oxford Dictionary

Answer 6

Anthropologically speaking the meaning of life is to produce more life. However, since we are self-aware human beings, we feel there must be more to it than that. So my guess is that the meaning of life is to find what makes you happy and spend time doing it, whether it be with family or friends or strangers or whatever. Good luck finding your meaning.

Answer 7

42

Answer 8

The flip answer is 42 from "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

The scientific meaning of life simply means you are not dead.

The meaning of life I use is more the purpose of life which is to grow. For a plant, that simply means expanding and reproducing. For humans it means, well, expansion is always there and so is reproducing, but we can do more. We can learn. God gave us the ability to learn and to question and to grow. He gave us the tools to improve our lives and the lives of those who come after us. He gave us the ability to communicate our ideas.

To me the true meaning of life is to learn. Life is an adventure.

Answer 9

42

Answer 10

"Hello psiboy13!
Unfortunately, the meanings that we attach to life change for everyone over time. You might call it time-specific.
Everybody's continuing to learn about their lives and the particular nuances that life brings us.
There are weak and strong arguments for every purpose under the sun. There always has been, always will be.
Probably, the most enduring meanings have been written into great novels available to everyone ... Shakespeare, etc."