What is the meaning of life....?

Question

I am not sure if anyone has asked this before... well, what is it... any theories, is it science, is it God, is it Fate... are we chess pieces being played by a super power. Is there an answer.... well what do you think ? I know its a crazy question, and some will want to give stupid answers, but i really am looking for the most rewarding answer.

Answer 1

The philosophical question "What is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "What is the nature of life (and of the universe in which we live)?", "What is the significance of life?", "What is valuable in life?", and "What is the purpose of, or in, (one's) life?". These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and arguments, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations.

These questions are separate from the scientific issue of the boundary between things with life and inanimate objects.
Popular beliefs
"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. The responses are shown to overlap in many ways but may be grouped into the following categories:

Survival and temporal success
...to live every day like it is your last and to do your best at everything that comes before you
...to be always satisfied
...to live, go to school, work, and die
...to participate in natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future of intelligent life
...to compete or co-operate with others
...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
...to gain and exercise power
...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
...to eat
...to prepare for death
...to spend life in the pursuit of happiness, maybe not to obtain it, but to pursue it relentlessly.
...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction (alike to participating in evolution)
...to protect and preserve one's kin, clan, or tribe (akin to participating in evolution)
...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
...to observe the ultimate fate of humanity to the furthest possible extent
...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)
...to attempt to have many sexual conquests (as in Arthur Schopenhauer's will to procreate)
...to find and take over all free space in this "game" called life
...to seek and find beauty
...to kill or be killed
...No point. Since having a point is a condition of living human consciousness. Animals do not need a point to live or exist. It is more of an affliction of consciousness that there are such things as points, a negative side to evolutionary development for lack of better words.

Wisdom and knowledge
...to master and know everything
...to be without questions, or to keep asking questions
...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 understand and be mindful of creation or the cosmos
...to lead the world towards a desired situation
...to satisfy the natural curiosity felt by humans about life

Ethical
...to express compassion
...to follow the "Golden Rule"
...to give and receive love
...to work for justice and freedom
...to live in peace with yourself and each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
...to serve others, or do good deeds

Religious and spiritual
...to find perfect love and a complete expression of one's humanness in a relationship with God
...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
...to become like God, or divine
...to glorify God
...to experience personal justice (i.e. to be rewarded for goodness)
...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. to seek objectivity)
...to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
...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 discover who you are
...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)

Philosophical
...to give life meaning
...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 know the meaning of life
...to achieve self-actualisation
...all possible meanings have some validity (see existentialism)
...life in itself has no meaning, for its purpose is an opportunity to create that meaning, therefore:
...to die
...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
...nature taking its course (the wheel of time keeps on turning)
...whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception"
...there is no purpose or meaning whatsoever (see nihilism)
...life may actually not exist, or may be illusory (see solipsism or nihilism)
...to contemplate "the meaning of the end of life"

Other
...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 participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe
...to make conformists' lives miserable (see nonconformism)
...to make life as difficult as possible for others (i.e. to compete)

Answer 2

We all have free will to make our own choices. Within reason, though. To be respectful, helpful, grateful, and kind towards others.
I live my life to better my future and my son's future - without hurting others on the way. I am teaching my son about God - and all He has done for me. Lots of people say there is no God - mostly because they ignore all of the things He has done for us.

I say:
I would rather live my life to the best, positive way, to find out there is no God than to live my life to the worst, negative way and find out there is a God.

Each of our choices will affect ourselves and others - just be careful what you do - because you are putting a lot in your hands by each decision you make.

Good luck with it all. Be reasonable and respectful - find yourself in this crazy world.

Answer 3

Life is a condition that distinguishes animals, humans, plants, organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally. A diverse array of living organisms can be found in the biosphere on Earth. Properties common to these organisms – plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea and bacteria – are a carbon and water-based cellular form with complex organization and genetic information. They undergo metabolism, possess a capacity to grow, respond to stimuli, reproduce and, through natural selection, adapt to their environment in successive generations.

Answer 4

Reproduction, pure and simple. All life has evolved to pass on genetic information in the most advantageous way to benefit the next generation. Everything else is just fancy frills so enjoy the frills as best you can.

Answer 5

This is not a philosophical question.The answer can be found in any dictionary,If like so many people what you are asking is what is the purpose of life ,which as an empiricist I also find lame, make up your own answer.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

What is the meaning of life....?
is the most usual question! something that concerns over the 95% of the people! my point of view is that whenever you stop searching for something is coming right in front of your eyes!! so stop minding so much and just live it! without what and why! and then you ll find your OWN meaning of life! cause l don't believe that there is one answer for all of us! different persons, different meaning of life ;o)

Answer 8

death is the meaning of life i mean thats what happends to evryone evry specie is int it even the christions will back me up on this one after all life is a test and at the end we die so in my opinion thats the maeaning of life for me not saying that it is but thats what i think. by the way not evryone can have children thats why i belive that is not the meaning of life

Answer 9

how about this we are a test that humans from the future have done to see how long our planet would last with all the different technology and to see what they can do to prevent the world from being destroyed weird i know but read it in a book once

Answer 10

Well l believe that when you die you as far as the individual is concerned, they will go to thier last concious thought therefore, l think the meaning of life is to make sure that it will be a good thought that you go to.....Billy

Answer 11

the object of our existence is to attain the greatest extent of development. to refine our capacities of understanding to thier highest.
the great "intelligence" that was the creator, gave up its being as it was, to become the vastness of what we know as the "universe".
all that exists, was once a part of this "intelligence". to "become" in the end more than what it was before....