What is the meaning of life?

Question

what do you think you were made for?do you believe that a divine influence created you?were we made for a purpose?or is just chemicals messing around with each other?

Answer 1

there's no meaning.
we're just random occurances.

Answer 2

I aam a firm beleiver in evolution. I do no beleive in the existence of a god or higher power.
The meaning of life as you are seeking to know begans (for me at least) after birth. Nature made you and I as a part of her plan to populate the earth. Not to over [populate the earth as we are now doing due to outside errors such as religioin(catholic church, islam, hindu ect):). but in a control manner as it was when we were both the preditor and the prey.
I think that humans stepping up in the world of mamals into a higher intelligent mode was the beganning of nature's plan to eventually when the world would no longer support life life would continue on into the universe as it always have, and humans would be a part of it instead of becoming an extent species.
I think life is not guided by gods, but laws just as minerals, gases, liquids, solids, are. I think ife is all ove rthe universe and if conditions are met life will not only start but will flourish.

I think that when the signals began to come in that his planet will not withstand over population as it is now doing life will began to change so as to ease this population, and began to change so that some life will escasape the fate whic eventually will distroy all life left on earth.
We are now seeing more so than ever homosexually in the animal world and human world. In the cold regions of anritic
that Penguins are begannning to pair off in large numbers in same sex couplaes,a nd it is begannig to happen top other species worldwide where animals are are over populated for the comming warmiong trend. HUmans are noi exception and millions mor eo fthem are appearing as homosexuals. This is natures handi work in controling population. and if it doesn't work I am sure we can expect more effective means in the coming years as rising seas and oceans reclaim land surfaces, and over populations due to religion, culture continues out of control.
You as a human and a par tof nature can make yourself what you want to be.

Answer 3

as humans, we are but a part of a very large and diverse universe, guided and divided by the forces of constant change. chaos and order. we, so far, are the most successful species ever to inhabit this earth. the genetic events that make a species succesful lie mostly in probabilities that we have no control over. "evolution cares about death more than it cares about you and me"-Annie Dillard
i believe that as lifeforms sharing a planet, we should do our best to make sure that our species, Homo sapiens, FLOURISHES. we do this by constantly judging our own actions (not others' actions mind you) and deciding whether or not they will help our species FLOURISH.

Answer 4

What would be the meaning of the Trojan horse to someone that woke up inside the belly of it without any prior knowledge of it and completely unable to escape? They wouldn't be able to determine meaning, thus neither are we. There is no guarantee there is meaning in the Universe outside of that which we create for ourselves.

Answer 5

We are all at one point of our lifes trying to find a meaning to it but if you really think about it whats the point??? Its like if someone tells you the end of a movie before you see it, so you'd better live your life to the fullest because maybe when you die you could go to heaven/hell or maybe just cease to exist you never know and you wont find out until you die so instead of trying to find a meaning to your life do something useful with it.

Answer 6

You were created with a purpose,
and if you are wise you'll try your best to
fullfil that purpose with God's grace.

Answer 7

we were made to love each other

Answer 8

"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.