what is the meaning of life?

Question

yea......answer in the form of a qustion.


what is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

What is family? What is friendship? What is love? What is forgiveness? What is fear? What is happiness? What is life?

I would say....all of the above....

Answer 2

according to http://www.jayssite.com:

"The answer to life, the universe and everything is 42.

I did not make this up:*
The second greatest computer of all time and space was built to tell the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything. After seven and a half million years the computer divulged the answer: 42.

"Forty-two! Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"

"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."

The computer informs the researchers that it will build them a second and greater computer, incorporating living beings as part of its computational matrix, to tell them what the question is. The result is the sentence "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE".

"Six by nine. Forty-two."

"That's it. That's all there is."

Since 6 x 9 = 54, this being the question would imply that the universe is bizarre and irrational. However, it was later pointed out that 6 x 9 = 42 if the calculations are performed in base 13, not base 10.

"42" is often used in the same vein as a metasyntactic variable; 42 is often used in testing programs as a common initializer for integer variables.

There is a joke that perhaps there may have been some order of operations issues:

Six equals 1 + 5.
Nine equals 8+1.
So six * nine equals 1+5 * 8+1.
5*8 = 40.
1+40+1 = 42, the meaning of life.

In Lewis Carroll's book The Hunting of the Snark, (before Douglas Adams' tome was written) the baker left 42 pieces of luggage on the pier.
42 is also a sphenic number, a Catalan number and is bracketed by twin primes.

42 is the number you get when you add up all the numbers on two six-sided dice. This is showing that life, the universe, and everything is nothing but a big game of craps.

According to Google's calculator, the meaning of life is, indeed, 42. Weird.

* This was all actually made up by Douglas Adams in his comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The information on this page was originally found at http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything."

Answer 3

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 4

A comedic film made by Monty Python in 1983.

As for the philosophical meaning, there is no answer, because no matter what someone answers, there's always going to be another person who contradicts the answer.

2 + 2 = 4 is a true equation because mathematical theory supports it, and everyone (that's not crazy) agrees that it's true.

The meaning of life = 42, is not a true equation because everyone does not agree on it being true.

Heck, 2 + 2 = 4 can be contradicted easily, but in today's society, you'll just be called a moron.

Contradiction can be considered a shield from false information.

Answer 5

Why do you want to know the meaning of life?

Often people ask this question when they really want the answer to some other question. Let's try and get those people back on track with some "pre-meaning of life" advice:


If you're questioning the meaning of life because you've been unhappy and depressed a good bit.

On a related note, if you want to know the meaning of life because you feel useless and worthless.

If you want to see our answer so that you can prove your intellectual prowess by poking holes in it.

If something awful just happened to you or someone you care about and you don't understand why bad things happen to good people.

If you would like to help the world but most of the rest of the world seems completely insane.

If you wonder why there is so much hatred in the world.

If you wonder why there is so much violence in our society.

If you really don't care about the meaning of life, you're just surfing and ended up here.

Trying to speak about the ultimate reality is like sending a kiss through a messenger.
--Anonymous

Answer 6

*No one can answer that, because no one knows what the meaning of life is...and if someone did...then where do you suppose our world would be at then?*

.Would our societies be different?
.Would people look/act different?
.What would our technology be like?
.Would as many people be dead/dying as they are now...if we knew the meaning of life? Would that help us keep each other alive?
.....There are SO many unanswered questions to your question.

.**I suppose we find out the meaning of life when we die, or at least that seems to be the common belief right? And even if that is the case, and we don't know the meaning of life until we die...how are we to come back and tell anyone anyways?**

.......hmm......
.That is probably the biggest UNSOLVED mystery and will always be in human history.


.....I wouldn't think about it too much though, because sometimes the answers lie right in front of you.....

.Usually when you aren't looking for something you find it, and when you are looking for something, it seems like you will never find it. Think about it.

Answer 7

You will find the true meaning of life when you seek with all your heart. When you find answers that you don't like you must still accept them. What I found is that there has always been a struggle between Good and evil. We must seek to overcome evil everywhere we find it. When I discovered the evil that I have in my own heart I wanted to get rid of it, but I discovered that I did not have the power to do it. The only solution is to ask Jesus to help us overcome evil. He alone has the power to do it. He came to earth to save people from their sins.

Answer 8

What is the Meaning of Life?.....


The Meaning of Life is....Life is CHOICE..YOU have to choose what to do with it...

People act like this is such a hard question, for HUNDREDS of years - the answer has been staring them in the face the whole time....

Answer 9

The meaning of life is the Pursuit of Immortality.

There are 3 ways of doing this. In order of decreasing difficulty they are:

1. Avoid dieing, so that you live forever,
2. Do something that you will always be remembered for, so you name lives forever, and
3. Have children, so that your genes live forever.

Answer 10

It's definitely 42.
But forget base-13 math and order of operations (from above).
Just: 42.
Ponder it, think on it. The more you do...
Yeah.
Answer in the form of a question: What is 42?

Answer 11

A scientist once conducted an experiment, theorising that smelling petrol/gas made you more enlightened. He tested this experiment, and then asked the subject - "What is the meaning of life?" and the subject answered - "The smell of petroleum pervades throughout!"