What is the meaning of life...?

Question

Or the universe for that matter...?

Answer 1

From my experience "Learn to Love, and Love to Learn", that's what the meaning of life is.

And failing that, 42 works just as well ;)

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.


To be or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is inevitable.....

Answer 3

It has been posited by a clever fellow in California that the entire process of the known 'Universe' can be reduced to a few lines of computer code.

I suggest that those lines could read, rather like dear old departed Douglas Adam's 'Deep Thought's' "42", something along the lines of :

"I wonder what would happen if I did this........................"

Fill in the dots with anything at all that can be imagined, and continue the process ad infinitum.

Answer 4

Some thing that the existentialists among us have been musing over for centuries.

The questions and answers to this given topic are infinitesimal, and cannot be scientifically proven or disproven, at least not in this stage of our evolution.

So, all we can do is merely speculate, but we each have our own beliefs and theories , either rightly or wrongly, but our own truthes and the meanings of such for the individual.

Answer 5

The meaning of life is simply to make this planet a better place for future generations in every conceiveable way. This is something the human race has been sadly failing at for many years.
After all we are not the owners of this planet merely it's current tennants.

Answer 6

42

Answer 7

To stay alive no matter what...! This is my viewpoint. I've blogged about this subject too. If you read my old posts you'd wonder for a bit, but be aware that they are only just interpretations... To read those blogs you have to start out with an open mind.

Answer 8

people have to make their own meaning of life.
although, there was a random cartoon i saw at my college and it had four pictures of how we could have evolved. the first one had a thought bubble saying "eat, survive, reproduce" (or something like that) and so did the second one and the third one but the forth one, which was a picture of a human had a speach bubble saying "what's it all about?". i thought it was really funny but my friend told me to shut up laughing cause this tall guy from my class was giving me odd looks.

Answer 9

Life is just a huge experiment of some other superior beings.We will never know the actual meaning.So we have to just try to find the meaning that fits to each one,religion,love,science,whatever. You can give your life a meaning or not,it's your choice. Try to enjoy your life as much as you can.

Answer 10

To learn to stop asking that question and just get on and live it the VERY best you can!
You are the only one who can give your life meaning so let Nature or God worry about what the rest of it is all about!!!

Answer 11

42.But you need to know what the question is.Unfortunatly it's impossible to know both the question and the answer at the same time. If you did the universe will end.