what is the meaning of life?

Question

i said so.............

Answer 1

the meaning of life is whatever meaning we give to it, what is the meaning of nothing? does it mean anything, is it meaningless.

the meaning I give to life is that it is a state of change that I have an influence upon in a degree

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

The meaning of life the universe and everything is 42.

Answer 4

The continuation of life. All species (from virus to humans) that we think of alive have one function in common. We breed. That is before we die of being corrupted by our surroundings (poisoned by oxygen, irradiated by the sun, etc), they have babies, seeds, or divide their cells and pass on their genetic information into another body that does the same. And the same... and the same. If all life on earth seized to be able to breed it would mean the end of all life.

Answer 5

there is none. reality is a constantly changing, senseless, and essentially random arrangement of elements in constant flux. this makes absolute meaning impossible. reality is absurd, if we can even be sure it exists at all. we do not know for sure what exists around us, we do not know anyone else is alive, we do not even know for sure that we are alive. we only know that we exist, and by that i mean our consciousness. everthing else is subjective perception. this results in the understanding that there is no such thing as truth, only interpretation, and our meaning of life, if it exists at all, is merely as each individual defines it for his or herself.

Answer 6

A better question is to ask yourself, "What is the meaning of my life?"

If "to be who you are and become who you are capable of becoming is the only end of life," our only responsibility is to remember what we love and pursue it, despite our programmed ego.

Answer 7

My turn to be at such a moment and at such a place, among the infinite time line and space in the universe.

Answer 8

Stop asking this question. There is no definitive answer. it means different things to different people. You said nothing, by the way.

Answer 9

To learn and develop, so you can come back and learn some more until you have learnt everything, every emotion etc.. then you can go to heaven!

Answer 10

Answer............42
Question.........What is six multiplied by eight


If you have the ultimate question and answer, they cancel each other out and life gets replaced by something even more inexplicable...