What is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

you must find your own meaning of life

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

Life actually does have an intrinsic meaning, but to get to it we're going to have to progress a little sideways. So bear with me...

Before we can talk about the meaning of life, I think it's productive to first ask the question, "What IS life?". This is a bit easier to answer, if not perfectly clear, because biologists obviously have to be able to explain what, exacty, the bio- part of their name refers to.

Biologists themselves often approach the question backwards. Instead of defining life as a whole, they instead consider the number of things that we generally consider to be 'alive' and figure out what qualities they all seem to have in common. This gives us a handful of properites that all living things we know of seem to have, including growth, reproduction, and the ability to make long-term adaptations to the environment.

Okay. So what does that MEAN? Again I think we need to break down our question with another one: "What IS meaning?" I'll take the same approach as the biologists on this one and consider examples. If a boulder fell on someone's house, and one observer asked another, "What does that mean?", what would acceptable answers be? I can think of a number of them ("It means that was a bad place to build a house"), and what they seem to have in common are that they describe greater implications and intent. Or in other words, given the event, process, or object, what will happen in the future, what led to it in the past, and what effects and intents does it have in the present?

So what does life do? It changes things. We know from the definition of life that it grows, consumes, spreads, alters its environment and alters the ways in which it does all these things. Having living things around means things are going to be different later, and probably were different before. Any time we imagine a place where nothing is ever different the only way that image works is to make it completely devoid of life. So that is something.

But it's not everything. Life doesn't produce just ANY change, but a certain flavour of it. Simply put, living things want to live. The changes living things make, generally speaking, either help them do so or kill them off. So life is not just about change, but change ideally for the better, even if practically it falls short sometimes.

This, then, must be the meaning of life. To change for the better.

Curiously enough, a quick survey of major philosophies, religions, and systems reveals that almost all of them seem to integrate this concept. Change for the better. There may be other important things, as some of the above systems would suggest, but to 'change for the better' is, at least, is the one thing implied by the very nature of the way things are. So do it! ( :

Answer 4

once you think about it there is no CORRECT meaning for life it is only decided by the person that lives it and everyone follows their own advice and has their own dream.. no 2 prople have the same life so theres really no defined meaning ...for some people the true meaning of live is enjoying it while it lasts but then again not everyone has the same point of view from that point on

Answer 5

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Answer 6

This ones easy! Life's meaning is a cosmic soup of debris that happened to be in the right place at the right time. Then POOF we are here.

Answer 7

Sadly, there are those who have no meaning of life....they are the ones you see homeless, on the street corner, poor and alone. You must set goals, reach those goals and set new goals. It's all about reaching and achieving your goals in life.

Answer 8

If we could answer that with certainty, we'd all be headed somewhere.

To each his own; live your life to the fullest and as long as you've done whatever you've wanted to do, nobody can say you lived your life badly.

Answer 9

Life is a journey you take if and only if you get to be born. You make it happy or you make it some how. I want to make it HAPPY.We all have a purpose. Although many never find theirs. That's sad.

Answer 10

That's for you to find out.

If you are asking in a scientific way. I'd say we bang bang make new offsprings and consume everything on earth till nothing left...