what is life?

Question

I want to know what is life mean why person breath or eat food or do things which helpfull or painfull to others not for him?

Answer 1

The question "what is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "What is the nature of life (and of the universe in which we live)?", "What is the significance of life?", "What is valuable in life?", and "What is the purpose of, or in, (one's) life?". These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and arguments, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations.

Popular beliefs

"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

OK, since this is a question in the INTERNET section, my answer would be, first printout this page.
Thenclick on the Start button of your computer
Select shut down
Something we may have never seen before will happen, your monitor will go completely black
Once this has happened, use the printout to complete these instructions
Stand up
Look around for a door to your room
Walk out the door
Continue walking until you meet another human being
Began a conversation with that human being (You will have to use your voice as IM does not work when you are away from your computer)
As him about breathing, eating, and so on
He will be able in troduce you to life
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Answer 3

Life is this: we were created in God's image for His purpose and pleasure. The reason it doesn't make sense is we live in a sin filled world. We are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God. The punishment for sin is death and there are wordly punishments we suffer as well. For instance if you commit adultery that is a sin and we suffer here because our family will be torn apart but we will be punished for eternity for our sin as well. Even if we think a sin in our heart (i.e. wish we could kill someone or have sex with someone else's wife) it is the same as committing the sin itself. No matter what we do or how hard we try, we cannot get away from our sin nature. But there is good news. If you confess with your lips that Jesus died for our sins and is resurrected from the dead in order to pay for our sins and repent of your sinful ways then you will be saved! It is truly a gift from our Father who loves us more than we can fathom. The next step is to join a bible believing church in order to grow spiritually. Don't be fooled by the world about what life is... Life is temporary, but we will spend eternity somewhere, do you know where you will spend it? If you want to learn more, email me ([e-mail]) and I will be happy to help. I was just like you once, asking, seeking and searching. The word Chirstian to me was equal to ignorant, but if you are willing to search and ask God to come into your heart, he will change you from the inside and you will begin to see things anew.

Answer 4

Deep, and yet moronic. An interesting paradox. I will quote Pink Floyd:

"Life is a short warm moment, and Death is a long, cold rest. You get the chance to try, in the twinkling of an eye, for 80 years with luck or even less."

Answer 5

It's a game devised by mathematician John Conway.
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Rupert
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Answer 6

Repost under Religion and Spirituality.

Answer 7

You ignored 2: lifestyles, AND WHY? God made you simply by fact He loves you. you have any such component called 'purpose', simply by fact of this you're unique, particular. That makes you 'particular', particular to not me, who cares approximately me, yet particular to the single that created you--God. So, having coming to this end it may do you lots good, to hunt His will to your lifestyles, and stay it to the merely right of your capacity. good success.

Answer 8

LIFE IS A CHAIN OF EXPERIENCES.
THE OTHER THINGS COME WHICH ARE A PART OF LIFE AND YOUR "FATE"
YOUR "FATE" IS AS PER YOUR PREVIOUS BIRTH AS A HUMAN BEING-FOR GOOD THINGS YOU DID YOU GET GOOD THINGS AND FOR ANY PAINFULL THINGS YOU DID YOU GET PAIN.
YOU SEE THIS NOW:
THE RICH---HOW?
THE POOR-HOW?
THE SICK---HOW?
THE PAIN----HOW?

Answer 9

It's Truth, nature ~ ~ according to me Life is journey towards death