What is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

According to the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, it's "42" but no one knows what the actual ultimate question is!

There isn't a meaning life, the idea is for you to give your life meaning, within your own terms.

Some seek happiness, others wealth, some chase popularity, and some simply want yahoo points!

Personally I seek to make other people happy, and try to help improve the human race.

Answer 2

80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions recently:

1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.

Answer 3

To discover the truth in all things the mind had created and drop the false.
Or rather with integrity see the false in yourself and so in others.
How else can you have the clarity needed to delve into this question?
If we are unclear about the false in us then our view on life will be distorted.
A distorted mind then asks, what is the meaning of all this?
Can it ever answer that question?
An answer cannot burn out this fundamental question.
It is not a matter of opinion or intellect nor imagination.
Does a meaning really lead to deep insight and understanding?
Or is it that insight and understanding produces meaning?

Answer 4

The meaning of Life ... is Life itself. It cannot not be anything else - nothing more and nothing less would suffice to explain what Life actually is. We must not consider Life as a question. For Life cannot be understood as a question when it is, and should be, the answer to all things we are. I can ask, or should ask - who am I? The answer is not someone else or something else however brilliant and lovely tat might be. The answer is myself and only myself, I am what I am nothing else can ever be what am. I may not be able to answer this very essentially personal question simply for all to understand and even for me to realise fully all the time or even at times. But this is the right way to approach proper way to search and there is no other better way. I must know my self as is said before – know thyself.

The meaning of Life are the same for all to understand but no one can tell the other what Life is all about even when someone does understands fully in simple words. The meanings of the life however vary according the person whose life is in observation. In this case no one else can ever find out what someone's life is, has been or will be. We can gather only slight acquaintances with the lives of each other to variable levels of intimacy, but we are all alone within the great expanses of our self. And this loneliness runs great lengths before we ever reach the essence common to all humanity and creation. Before that this is a long and lonely journey. And along this journey it is good to know each other as much as we can.

Answer 5

The phrase Meaning of Life is a misinterpretation of Life of Meaning

Answer 6

There is no answer to life. We live, we produce offspring, we die, and the cycle continues. We have no more meaning than parasites. We are destroying our home just as a virus would. We are just taking a long time about it. In the infinity of time space and all that we are completely insignificant, so searching for meaning in our existence is useless.

If you want to find meaning in YOUR life however, dont ask others to define it, go out and find it yourself.

Answer 7

42

Answer 8

A film by Monty Python,,

By the way 42 is the answer to life the universe and everyting (Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy)

Answer 9

There is none, and there should be none. You are free to make your own, if you reject nonsense. Some priests tell you their idea of its meaning, and that includes giving much money to those priests. Imaginary deities don't give meaning to life, even if one could remove the "Pay the Priest" con game.

Answer 10

42