what is the meaning of life?

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Answer 1

wow, what a question! i think we are here to learn lessons, some of us keep making the same mistakes and we come back to earth to relearn, we choose our parents to teach us good or bad lessons in life and when we finally learn all we should know we go to a better place.

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

I hate this question. It's entirely wrong-headed.

Where do we ordinarily ask the question, "What is the meaning of X?"

We ask that question, I observe, when some utterance or behavior does not have an immediately evident purpose that is manifestly obvious to us. E.g., you're in a restaurant, and your date says (sotto voce), "Your barn door is open." What is the meaning of that? 'Meaning' here clearly refers to the use of that utterance as a term that stands between what is known to the speaker and what the speaker would have her audience know--and act upon, posthaste. I believe that all utterances have this 'mediative' function, that is, that 'meanings' are MERELY hopeful go-between turkey-gobbles, operations aimed at sharing understandings.

Sadly, however, it is possible to construct utterances that mimic the form of those useful noises. It is possible to ask "What is the meaning of life?" But that question is vain, and has no 'meaningfulness'; there is no understanding to communicate to another in it. It solicits another noise in response, to be sure--and I allow the possibility that the responding noise MAY have 'meaning,' but I am not at all sanguine of that prospect.

Have I made my use of the term 'meaning' clear? It MUST, for me, 'stand between' an understanding X and a potentially understanding Y, else it's only gum-flap racket.

With that, I proceed to the question as given here:

If 'life' is a 'meaning thing', it must 'stand between' things, viz., a pre-living situation, and a post-living situation. Since neither of those is available to us for examination, the vanity of the question should be obvious.

But I'm not unsympathetic: I do understand the need implicit in the question. But I have had to abandon that question in favor of another, that I can answer to my own satisfaction: "What do I purpose to do today?"

If that alternative seems rather short-sighted to you, I won't quarrel with the observation. But it serves me well enough. I do not feel strongly a need for loftier aim.

My presence in the universe is not required--this embarrassing admission was forced on me by my eyes, that see too clearly that it's a big honkin' universe and that I don't weigh more than 180 pounds.

Answer 4

Whatever you want it to be, but in relation to Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy and the Super computer Deep Blue "The Meaning Of Life The Universe And Everthing" is 42. You DECIDE!!!

Answer 5

I believe that any answer is a correct one, being that there is no definite confirmed answer. it can only be one of an opinion. So my opinion is: to experience. My understanding of the "afterlife" is one of nirvana, full of peace. Maybe the soul gets bored with nothing but the same "peace" all of the time, & eventually wants to experience something else. So enter this world & experience everthing imaginable; love, hate, war, peace, hunger, fullness, happy, sad, hot, cold, judgement, lust, etc... the list can go on & on. When we are born we have no experience, but when we die they say your whole life flashes before your eyes, so experience is everything that you lived for. Not your car, or your money, or even your spouse, but the experience of having those things, & the emotions that those experiences provoke.

Anyway, just another opinion. Good question though, I'll give it a star.

Answer 6

Life in simple words is a clock. Tick tacking our seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years passing by. It is actually counting down our time of life and we're awaiting death. Life is the process of awaiting death. The clock will stop ticking some day but before that we are here to achieve our best...to play a part and to live.

Answer 7

42

Answer 8

The meaning of life is to battle against entropy. All life seeks to organize and consolidate matter and energy into more uniform, less entropic forms. Tree gather sunlight, water, minerals, air and make them into cellulose. Animals do the same, but with a somewhat broader range of materials, up to an including other animals.
The ultimate anti-entropic condition is "gray goo," with all energy and matter evenly distributed everywhere.
Not much of a "meaning", since who knows WHY entropy is our enemy? But there you go.
That's life.

Answer 9

Watch Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy.

Answer 10

The only meaning of life, whether it be a microbe or a human, is the procreation of your species.

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