what is life?

Answer 1

it is your existance what you make of yourself

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.

So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.

Answer 3

"Life... is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a... is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers."

Answer 4

Life is a bunch of interactions between the collective/universe, the mental, and the physical. The collective holds everything in existence and for us to exist in the physical, the mental translates the collective into something the physical realm can understand. The mental defines the collective into a physical form. These interactions stack on top of each other like one giant story, ultimately returning the physical to the collective state. This is the story of existence. Life is existence.

Answer 5

Life is the root for growth. From one's mind to one's well-being. Understanding Life is understanding Self. How we balance Life, whether it's existence or non-existence is solely based on our own understanding. Without Life, there can be no Death.

Answer 6

Life is hard. Life is easy. All you have to do is keep breathing - even if you don't want to, and everyone feels like that and if you haven't yet, you will. But all you have to do is keep on breathing. Life is beautiful and life is ugly. Life is full of hope and full of despair. Just remember that hope always wins.

Answer 7

Life is the biggest illusion.We physicists know the fact that the difference between past,present and future is one persistent illusion.The thing is if you understand the ever remaining static behind the illusionary dynamic world around you get the answer to your question.

Answer 8

a characteristic state or mode of living; "social life"; "city life"; "real life"
the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living; "he hoped for a new life in Australia"; "he wanted to live his own life without interference from others"
the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
animation: the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life"
the period between birth and the present time; "I have known him all his life"
liveliness: animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"
biography: an account of the series of events making up a person's life
the period from the present until death; "he appointed himself emperor for life"
a living person; "his heroism saved a life"
living things collectively; "the oceans are teeming with life"
a motive for living; "pottery was his life"
the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones; "there is no life on the moon"
life sentence: a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives; "he got life for killing the guard"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Answer 9

I believe in reincarnation and I think that a lifetime is a time for the soul to experience and learn. I guess I have the beliefs of a Buddhist although I'm Wiccan. I think we will reach perfection--Nirvana--when all the lessons are learned.

Answer 10

Life is a lesson

Answer 11

Life is everything that surrounds us, including us, in every space there is life, take care of everything because life is short, do not waste it