What do you think the meaning of life is?

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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

The meaning of life is what we all seek especially when death is comming. You usually ask those questions when you are searching for answers. Everyones answer will be different, because we all have different cultures, faiths, meaning about life and familys.
For me life is about learning, the more you learn, the more you understand, without learning you cant change, and if you dont change, you cant move on, and there would be no point. Life is a journey, with twists and turns along the way, sometimes there are hills which we struggle across, there may be diches to fall in or there may be rose beds along the path, but what ever comes our way, we must find a way through when we do that we also find the meaning in life. good luck.

Answer 3

Read the book titled The Purpose Driven Life,Why am I here. I forgot the author but do a search on it. It explains life from all views, religious, personal, philosphical etc..... It's an easy read to. It take a month cuz it is a 30 chapter book and you are supposed to read a chapter a day and then reflect on it. The chapters are short and well written.

Answer 4

Life is the form of a lesson for not doing something right in the afterlife and the first time we are on earth we don't learn our lesson so then we have to keep repeating it until otherwise... That is just one persons opinion though... Really life is what you make it.

Answer 5

I totally believe in Shakespares words. This world is a stage and we come here, play our role and then go away.

Life is all about how you take it. Good moments will make you feel life is good and vice versa.

Life should be taken always with open arms smiling and then you will see.

Some also say-:
Take life with a pinch of salt and shot of Tequila :-)

Answer 6

Being God's workers to spread the Good News to all.
I don't understand why God created the world anyways. He created the world so people would praise Him, all due respect, why didn't he just create that in Heaven?

Answer 7

I think we are like cells in a petri dish. We were nothing before we were born, and will be nothing when we die. We are alive for a short while, and I believe "happiness" is what everyone should strive for while we're here.

(There is no god, and to believe in one while you're here is robbing you of the joys of life).

Answer 8

Fortunately I know that my life here on earth is basically to do Gods will .
I literally died and he brought me back , I've asked and been directed as to how I should live my life helping others and giving as much of myself as possible .
See , for me it is not what I think !
It is who I live for and how !

Answer 9

Reproduction and the safety of the offspring.

Edit to add;
(Even amoebas secure the future for their offspring and their genes, and they don't think about the meaning of life.)

Answer 10

To honor our mother Earth.

Answer 11

The meaning of life is here if you read all thoroughly. http://www.budsas.org/ebud/ebdha030.htm