what is d meaning of life?

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)
* ...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 find out 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 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 find true love
* ...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)
* ...to determine a set of goals based on an individuals belief in the meaning of life and work towards the attainment of those objectives.
* ...a combination of any of the above.
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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?
* ...because nobody will ever love you.
* ...life may actually not exist, this is all a surreal dream.

But most importantly

* ...not to die.

Answer 2

The meaning of life can be found only in relationships. Relationships are those personal, internal, emotional, intellectual, and psychological connections that you are able make with the part of this world that is not you. If you become Isolated and alone, without relationships, you will lack meaning in life. Life will have no meaning. The search for meaning in life is a search for relationships. But it is more than that. Because we have intelligence and because we are conscious that we are conscious of others around us we have the ability to make decisions about our relationships that will result in good or evil.
We have the abillity to see what is good in a relationship. We have the ability to discern when we have done bad in a relationship. We know the difference between good and evil. Thus life takes on meaning as we relate to other living beings in positive, constructive ways, when we seek to do good, where we are in time and space, to all beings. It is this ability to choose good or evil that,in effect, gives us an ability to love. And it is love that makes life worth lliving. It is love that gives meaning to life. It is love that is the meaning of life. "Greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for another" it is said. But why would anyone give up his life for another? Because that is the ultimate purpose in life. The mark of a good life can only be seen at the time of death and then only if family and friends return and say "He/She gave so much."

Answer 3

Of the meaning of life, Ludwig Wittgenstein and the logical positivists said: expressed in language, the question is meaningless. This is because "meaning of x" is a term in life usually conveying something regarding the consequences of x, or the significance of x, or that which should be noted regarding x, etc. So when "life" is used as "x" in the term "meaning of x", the statement becomes recursive and therefore nonsensical.

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SO WT IS UR POEITIC HEART IN ASKING.
MAKE SURE BEFORE ASKING.

Answer 4

Girl, people more wiser than u and me have spent their lifetime trying to answer this question. I've wondered this myself sometimes, but you know what? You can wonder all you like and still not come up with an answer. Maybe coz we're not meant to. So stop wondering about life's meaning and go on and live it. Coz it's too short!!!

Answer 5

Life is full of colors and it is the gift given by God to us , so you must be happy for it and try to live it fully and never get depressed by the problems and able to fight with them because as I think there are many problems in everybodys life but you must never give up and live always happily

Answer 6

Life is a drama and we are all a part of it. God is the director and we are the actors.

Some like Jesus have a big role, some like Hitler and Bush have evil roles and some like the beggars have a very small role but we are all a team, the HUMAN team. We are all doing our parts.

Answer 7

life;s meaning is a drama and god is the directer, writer,produser this says the whole world.
But i say life meaning is to give a lot of love to your family, friends and the peaple who around you
life is very very beutiful, its a god gift

Answer 8

Robert Fulghum says (paraphrasing here) that we are like a mirror reflecting light into the dark places of our world-- that is the meaning of life, to reflect light/truth/goodness into the darkness.

Answer 9

life is like a receipe which hv ingredients like joy happiness , sorrow, anger, devotion, which hv to be in particular amount so that each person can enjoy the taste of life.
if one particular ingredient is in more amount then it can lead to problems in our life. so taste each thing in our life n enjoy.

Answer 10

Each person in this world have different meaning of their life,one thing is common in all that is all of them live their life to their fullest term.Life is the one who shares his or her day to the new ways of living.It is the best gift you have in your hands with power of knowledge.jus think if there is no life in us.....then wat we are doing in this bad world.................

Answer 11

Can only be defined by yourself in your own words, thoughts, fears and dreams.