what is the meaning of life?

Question

the most logical answer to this question is the question itself.

i think

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
...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
...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

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
...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
...life may actually not exist, or may be illusory )
...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
...to make life as difficult as possible for others (i.e. to compete) -

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

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Answer 4

Can we learn sexual pleasure without actually undergoing it? We never possibly can. Similarly we can learn what life is only by living. And we can learn what death is only by dying.

Life is full of experiences. In life, the tests come first followed by the lessons. Irrespective of whether or not we learn from those experiences of birth and death continue to happen each and every moment of life.

Therefore if I think that life ends when I die, I have learned nothing out of my experience. If I understand that there is no space or time in the universe which is without life, then only I understand the meaning of life and existence. Life is eternal and I am part of eternity. This according to me is the meaning of life. There is nothing to learn in life. Everything in life is to be experienced.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

well then...

you're not the only one I've seen to get confused with this question..

well..

life is worth living...

life is like a time limit..

it is the time wherein you should do good things rather than bad things...

life is where you should prove yourself that you are worthy to go to heaven..

you should be cautious for whatever you should do..

do right things!

you may not usnderstand me right now but there would come a time that you would!

Answer 7

E = MC2. All matter including life on earth is simply energy that has condensed itself into matter. What happens on earth is simply what this energy decides to do in the form of matter. The theory of relativity is not only the equation of destruction, it is the equation of creation and explains the existence of everything you see in the entire universe. There is no meaning to life. All there is is energy that has decided to manifest itself in the form of matter and what we do is what it is doing.

Answer 8

Hello,

(ANS) Life has No! meaning, only the meaning that you yourself find within your own life. The meaning it has is the meaning you give it. Nothing more!!

**Meaning ONLY!! becomes clear in retrospect!! Therefore you cannot know the meaning of something before its taken place or before its happened.

**we live in a time of crisis when the vast majority of people have no! idea what meaning their life fulfills in the scheme of things. We live in a time of exsistential crisis.

**You cannot grasp the meaning if life with the mind or intellect alone, it doesn't work that way.

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Answer 9

The meaning of life is to search for the answer to the question "what is the meaning of life?"

Answer 10

I think the more logical question is for you..which is :
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN TO LIFE" ??

because you are the part and life is the all....you cannot tell what is the meaning of the all while you are a tiny part of it.

we all contribute to the meaning of life through expressing ourselves....
if you mean good....life means good.

Answer 11

It's simple, we dont have a clue... Just do whatever the hell feels good whenever the hell you want as long as it doesnt hurt anybody else... And if u do whatever the hell makes you feel good throughout your life you're gonna die happy... and as far as i can tell thats all that matters... (just pray for an ever after)