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, most in the context "What is the purpose of life?" Here are some of the many potential answers to this perplexing question:

Survival and temporal success

* ...to accumulate wealth and increase social status
* ...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 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 gain and exercise power
* ...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
* ...to live
* ...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction
* ...to protect one's family
* ...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny
* ...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 expand one's perception of the world
* ...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 understand creation

Ethical

* ...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
* ...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
* ...to achieve rebirth in the Pure Land
* ...to become like God, or God-like
* ...to be rewarded for your deeds
* ...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God)
* ...to express compassion
* ...to follow the "Golden Rule"
* ...to give and receive love
* ...to live in a way that you don't harm yourself and don't harm your environment
* ...to work for justice and freedom

Religious and spiritual

* ...to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
* ...to die and become a martyr
* ...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
* ...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
* ...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
* ...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
* ...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
* ...to serve others, or do good deeds
* ...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment and atonement
* ...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
* ...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God
* ...to disprove the existence of a or all all gods

Other

* ...to achieve self-actualisation
* ...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
* ...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 participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe
* ...to make the conformists' lives miserable (see non-conformism)
* ...to participate in the chain of 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)
* ...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others
* ...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced (see Buddhism)
* ...to seek and find beauty
* ...as there is no intrinsic meaning to life, to each individual, the "meaning of life" is whatever he/she decides it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid.
* ...an answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?" is that it is just simply being able to ask the question, "What is the meaning of life?" (see Sri Sri Ravi Shankar below)
* ...a combination of any of the above.

No purpose, and therefore...

* ...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
* ...just a series of events
* ...just nature taking its course
* ...the wheel of time keeps on turning
* ...the cycle of life
* ...whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception"
* ...there is no purpose or meaning whatsoever (see nihilism)
* ...who cares?

Answer 2

Life can have different meanings, its the way you see it and know it. When yourgf has dumped you, you have been fired, someone near is ill with some fatal illness, you'd feel life as unjust, meaningless.
one things for sure, life's ephemeral, very short and very uncertain.
Have two choices, either be materialistic, or be non materialistic, theres nothing called a between, its useless, to try and stand on two boats at the same time.
For me theres a Hereafter, and thats what makes life interesting, the ups and downs all tests, and the life in here a mere preparation for the Hereafter. You pray , you fast, you behave, you love, you forgive, you repent, you try and try and try to get close to your LORD, ALLAHU SUBHNAN HUWA TA'AALA. That is life, and one where you would never feel like asking, y do i live...

Answer 3

I think the meaning of life is pretty simple:

first do no intentional harm to others or the environment around you.

Secondly, live and let life leave the moral judgments to God.

Third, as is possible live in peace and truly try to sacrifice as needed for your fellow man.

Fourth (and very few discover it) Keep God simple - discover His unique life plan for you and if you consistently follow it, your life will be richer and more full due to it.

Always seek wisdom - praise justice, insist on mercy and temperance!

What do u think?

Answer 4

It depends on the person living it. To some people, life may mean their passion, their job, their spouse, their music, etc. It is our quest to find what our lives mean, but people don't always end up figuring it out. To me, life is free will. The freedom to find happiness in any shape, size or form....

Answer 5

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Answer 7

I mean this sincerely. Please do not waste your effort searching for the meaning of life. There is none. Choose to be happy and to live life to the fullest and provide for your family. Do your best, and at the end of the road, you will know that you have done the best you could.

Answer 8

To me life has no meaning except pain and heartache and bad people. I must have done something in a previous life to have the one I have now.

Answer 9

life has no meaning but what you give it.God did not create this life,you and i did.this life is an illusion and every thing in it would come to naught.however the holy spirit recognizes the error we have made in separating ourselves from God and will work with this life until we find our way back to GOD

Answer 10

There is a reason for our life
Life is a gift from God.
You can use or waste this gift it's in your hand
the biggest reason is love
Love to father and mother, then love to love one "your wife" then love to your kids and then their Kids and...
what is your expectation of a good life?

Answer 11

the meaning of life is that there is no meaning and once you accept that, then you will be content and your question irrelevant