what is the meaning of life?

Question

this should be interesting... hehe i just wanna see some answeres

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

What makes you think this should be interesting? It's probably in the top 10 for most frequently asked questions with "Am I pregnant?", "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?", "Why is the sky blue?" etc. Instead of hitting "Ask," try hitting "Discover". You'll have a huge mound to choose from. So that's my answer to the meaning of life: Keep hitting the "Discover" button.

Answer 3

Meaning? look up a dictionary.

If you mean purpose of life, then there are a few answers.
1. from a biological perspective, its to reproduce.
2. from an individuals perspective, its ussually associated with what they perceive to be important to achieve, eg. happyness, glory, surving a supernatural entity, sex ;), etc.

The answer is subjective and it depended on what the individuals percieve as important, but ussually some people confuse their own subjective point of view (of holding some quality to be objectively important) with believing that there is an objective purpose in life.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

After years and years of thought and experience, I arrived at this conclusion: thank God for your blessings every day and try to be good to and help other people. It may not be a definitive "answer", but this simple "formula" has brought me more peace than I ever experienced in my atheistic, self-obsessed youth! LOL

Answer 6

There is no point in finding a meaning for life. Life is not a language to find meaning. When we are born we are NOT starting the life but we are only starting to die. So in the travel to death let us make our travel beautiful and enjoyable. 'Beautiful and enjoyable' entirely differs to each and every individual. So let them find their own way. Enjoy....

Answer 7

the meaning of life is whatever we make of our lives look into ur heart for the answer

Answer 8

i am so tired of stupid kids trying to answer these questions. watch some one say" the purpose of life is to give it a purpose,life does not have one" NO we can't yet comprehend such an answer let alone the question itself.

Answer 9

life has no meaning.
its upon the individuals to givee life meaning.
so "life" is meaningless unless v giv life a meaning.
hehehehe.

Answer 10

its for you to discover on your own. we must always believe in ourselves and to live life the fullest in a way that only you yourself can accept and love.

Answer 11

no meaning just the rite to live