what is the meaning of life?

Question

that is the question

Answer 1

It's not how much you accomplish in life
that really counts,
but how much you give to other.

It's not how high you build your dreams
that makes a difference,
but how high your faith can climb.

It's not how many goals you reach,
but how many lives you touch.

It's not who you know that matters,
but who you are inside.

Believe in the impossible,
hold tight to the incredible,
and live each day to its fullest potential.

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

According to Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, it is 42!
How? you may ask...
Well, Douglas Adams wrote a book called The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In that book, a race of pandimensional beings (posing as white laboratory mice, but that's another story) built a gigantic computer named Deep Thought, so smart that even before its gigantic data banks were connected, it started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off.
They asked the computer for the Answer.
"The answer to what?", asked Deep Thought.
"Life! The Universe! Everything!" they said.

After calculating for seven million years, it told them that the Answer was "Forty-two"... so they had to build an even larger computer to find out what the question was.
also...
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is a comedy film/musical made in 1983 by Monty Python.
This film was essentially a series of comedy skits about the various stages of life — in some ways a return to the sketch comedy format of the original television series. It was also the last of the Monty Python films.

Answer 4

42 is the answer to the ultimate question - of life, the universe and everything. (According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).

I guess we're here to try and make it better for everyone. To be less materialistic and more spiritual. Happiness and compassion are the Buddhist gaols.

Does this help?

Answer 5

Why do all people who ask this question presuppose it even has a meaning and is not just a natural phenomenon? How is it any different from asking, what is the meaning of rain? We ask such questions because we have a need to satisfy our feelings of self importance. We cannot accept that man is just like any other animal and that we have no higher place or value than they do.

Answer 6

The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.
That's the "definition/meaning" of life, but I think we are born to make the world a better place than it was before our occurance. To reproduce. Also to have some fun!

Answer 7

8 years with time off for good behaviour and lots of perks. Hardly the rest of your life. Could be the time of your life, indeed. OR... Life's a magazine. Could the answer be in there, I wonder.

Answer 8

To pro-create, only humans with consious though ask questions like this. We dwell on where we are, where we're going, how much do I have, how much can I have/get.......
These are all the questions that we ask as if it really makes that much of a difference having material posessions and feeling that we are better than somebody else.

Answer 9

42

Answer 10

To find meaning in existance

Answer 11

To reproduce, which involves good times.
To illiminate Religion and Politics, both of which assume that removing people that don't support the same view is the way forward.

42.