2006-10-19 16:54:42 · 12 answers · asked by tiger kid 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
"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.
* ...42
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.
2006-10-20 03:56:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first breath you take
The pain of growing old
The smell of success
The bitter taste of disapointment and/or failure
The feel of anger
The feel of love
The feel of hate
The sound of laughter
The sight of the smile on your childrens faces
The smell of home
The warmth of friendship
The feel of your first kiss
The taste of sorrow
The smell of fresh snow
The sound of birds in the dark morning hours
The laughter of children
The warmth of a family
The tenderness of a loving relationship
The gut retching pain of a bad relationship
The lost feeling of a loved one
The first day of school
The end of the day when your head mets your pillow
The feeling of accomplishment
The smile on GODs face when he sees you smiling back at him
I could go on forever but life can only be definded as your exsistance and what you do with it. Living is the hard part
to die is easy.
2006-10-20 00:08:38 · answer #2 · answered by that_super_shy_guy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make the most of it live everyday like its ur last it could b.we need to slow down and enjoy simple things in life we take for granted.god/family
2006-10-19 23:58:27 · answer #3 · answered by sandy k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pushing with all your might. Reaching down and catching your own baby. Pulling him to your chest and feeling his warmth. Hearing his faint little cry and seeing his beautiful face.
2006-10-19 23:58:34 · answer #4 · answered by Jen F 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is something that happends to you before you die. It is something that only happends once, because of this you should live everyday as your last.
2006-10-20 00:08:41 · answer #5 · answered by and1baller4life0 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is the the path you take, so make good choices everyday....
2006-10-20 00:00:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only true joy in life is being in love..and having that person love you back..and if you have that..than its all worth it
2006-10-20 00:29:35 · answer #7 · answered by CINDY R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is what you make it. For me, life is pursuit of peacefulness.
2006-10-20 00:02:24 · answer #8 · answered by EB 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO why don't you define it
2006-10-20 00:00:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
LIFE IS HAPPINESS ,SADNESS , LAUGHING , CRYING, LIFE IS WHAT THIS WORLD GIVES YOU AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN REALLY DO BUT ACCEPT IT AND DEAL WITH IT! My TWO CENTS...
2006-10-20 00:04:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sleeping, breathing, eating, $hitting.
2006-10-19 23:57:48 · answer #11 · answered by Carrie! 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋