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2006-10-03 22:35:29 · 14 answers · asked by Jess ~ 1 in Society & Culture Royalty

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...to live everyday like it is your last and to do your best at everything that comes before you
...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 (alike to number two)
...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)
...to complete your list of life goals
...to find something to believe
Wisdom and knowledge

...to be without question, or to keep asking questions
...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life
...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 understand creation
Ethical

...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
...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
...to serve others, or do good deeds
Religious and spiritual

...2 Thessalonians 1: 11, 12 says our instructions from God as Christians is to be like Christ and to be worthy of his calling by doing what Christ would do (W.W.J.D.)
...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 be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
...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
Other

...to be emotionally fulfilled
...to find true love
...to live, love, and laugh
...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 nonconformism)
...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)
...to determine a set of goals based on an individuals belief in the meaning of life and work towards the attainment of those objectives.
...to make life as difficult as possible for others
...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)
...life may actually not exist, this is all a surreal dream.
...to live in fear of possible events that may happen after life ends.
...have fun while it lasts.
...the purpose of life is balance.

2006-10-03 22:41:54 · answer #1 · answered by mallimalar_2000 7 · 1 1

To be what God wanted you to be. To be good, to give to the poor, honor everyone, not to cause trouble, or lie. The meaning of death? To procreate, love your family, and leave an inheritance for your great grandbabies. It says in the bible, a son will leave his mom and dad and become one with a wife and they two shall be of one flesh, ( creating their baby ) and so the cycle is endless.....
Life is for life :o]
p.s. I forgot the most important thing ! To trust that God will take care of you.

2006-10-04 06:31:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Life is a test. it is our test for the life hereafter,if we do good in this in this world and follow the right way we will enter heaven if we wrong ourselves we will surely enter hell which is eternal and no one can save us from there the only things we could do know is follow the right path do good.

2006-10-03 23:02:01 · answer #3 · answered by faisal k 2 · 0 0

this is a huge question but ill answer it in the simples way possible
the meaning of life is to love and express god. there

2006-10-04 04:12:54 · answer #4 · answered by maconheira 4 · 0 0

watch monty python's the meaning of life and find out

2006-10-04 10:51:35 · answer #5 · answered by pageantbaby14 3 · 0 0

it's a race, you should be allways the first one, but you should always be human. humanity is the rule of being the first.
it's hope, a man without hope is just like a bird with no wing, as the bird without wing cann't fly, a man with no hope cann't live.
it's , Be or not to be, your brain says if you live or you die.

2006-10-03 22:50:11 · answer #6 · answered by niceSasha 2 · 0 0

We live to praise God and to glorify God's Name.

I know that you are not a christian, But in my reilgion (christianity that is) It is written in the bible that the purpose of life is to praise God and to glorify God's name!!>..^_^

Please ask me more questions if you have any problems related to life...^_<

Yours,
Agent Jake

2006-10-04 03:31:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

life is a journey,you should just enjoy the trip

2006-10-04 07:49:19 · answer #8 · answered by helena 2 · 0 0

ask Monty python

2006-10-04 06:09:46 · answer #9 · answered by flip4pop 1 · 0 0

42!!! LOL. Love the question.

2006-10-04 08:32:51 · answer #10 · answered by hartley006 3 · 0 0

this is a big question in the wrong category

2006-10-03 22:39:33 · answer #11 · answered by Kalooka 7 · 0 0

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