Seriously, wats the meaning of life?

Question

for all u ppl who r going to say 42, please dont cuz british ppl dont know wat there taling about especially when mice r about to drill there brains out

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

The first thing you should address is whether or not you typically or instinctively act selfishly. It's not bad to perform something out of self-interest, but it is good to know whether you're doing something purely for yourself or others. Where is this all going to? Simple: devotion. If you are currently miserable, devote yourself to your friends and be supportive of them and try to make them feel comfortable around you (I wouldn't suggest strangers since you will know your friends better). Friends are a great source of comfort and support, so if you can reciprocate with them, it's really, really good! If you haven't any friends - and speaking from personal experience, this is very conceivable - devote all your energy towards yourself. Make yourself content (not happiness yet, but contentment is still pretty good) by applying your rationality when doing the things you do. Disregard your father. If you genuinely feel that he's making you downtrodden, you'll know that means he's not a good parent. Don't care about anyone whose agenda is to make you miserable. Now, it's good to act purely in terms of self-interest. Do anything and everything which will benefit you. If it doesn't benefit you, leave it. Feeling bad is futile, because our emotions - I'm afraid - wouldn't have any ramifications in the real world unless we act upon our emotions. Some people might call this selfish, but I assume the most important person in your life is yourself, correct? That being said, feeling good about yourself is of utmost importance. You're the leader and commander, the creator of your own happiness. Do things which make you happy - it's what's most crucial to you. Avoid being an *** by avoiding from doing things that will make you an ***, but if people start treating you like an *** even if you know you've done something right and nothing wrong, you'll know that those people are asses and ought to be disregarded. Till we re-encounter, I hope you shall endeavor for your happiness. ^_^

Answer 3

42

Answer 4

Most men employ the first part of life to make the most miserble,,.

Life finds its end,& laughs at what is thought of it...,

Life consist not in holding good cards but playing those you do hold well...,

Life is a hospital, in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed.One would prefer to suffer near the fire, & another is certain he would get well if he were by the window...,

Life is a matter about which we are lost if we reason either too much or to little...,

Life is like playing violin in public & learning the instrument as one goes on...,

Life is the art of drawing suffecient conclusions from insuffecient premises...,

Life is composed of the most dissimilar things..,the most unforeseen..,the most contradictory..,the most incongruous..;it si merciless..,without sequence or connection..,full of inexplicable..,illogical & contradictory catastrophes..,such as can only be classed as miscellaneous facts...,

Life what comes next...,

Life is not a spectacle or feast...; it is a predicament...,

The essence of life consist in longing for more life.

Answer 5

Good question. The meaning of life. That's a tough one. Well, I think that it is to be the best at whatever you do, and to enjoy what you have and to do the very best at everything that you can do. It is also to serve something greater than yourself, and to prepare for the future..... to leave the world a better place than when you came in.

Answer 6

the meaning of life is joy, clarity, peace, fulfillment, love, sweetness, beauty, sublimity

the purpose of life is finding that experience

that invisible nonthing you easily identify as you: learn to stroke that and it purrs pure joy

the fact that nothing finite satisfies us [unlike the other animals] tells us that we have a nature that is made to enjoy the infinite, the ineffable, the beautiful, the perfect

Answer 7

The meaning of life is to get saved and do good works

Answer 8

the meaning of life...making urself as an individual being the most happy u can be in every aspect of ur life..simple but true

Answer 9

The meaning of life is what each individual gives it. Please note the second letter of life - I - it is an extremely personal vote.

Answer 10

To have sex and not die.

The two insticts all animals posess (plants have them too if you replace have sex with pollenate)

Answer 11

to procreate and rasie the next generation