Whats the meaning of life?

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

The best explanation that I heard was that we are here just to touch and brighten the life of one single person. Even the smallest kindness or reaching out to somebody with positivity can touch and help somebody in a very profound way. In a way that we never imagined.

The meaning of life can be that simple.

Think about it. Somebody could be feeling suicidal but with just the smallest kindness from you you could pull them back from the brink.

Another thing to do would be to see life as a gift. To enjoy the time we have on earth. Not to waste it but to relish it.

Answer 3

Is a real profound question....
To me it means to be content. As a human being I pledge to be content by making life better for other and mean by living a peacful life and accomplishing what I wish to accomplish without blaming anyone for what can happen. I stay posotive and help other see positiveness in their life. Today we're here and gone tomorrow. The purpose is to live it good now because we'll be gone soon.

Answer 4

The Meaning of Life - is a fantastic film made by the Monty Python comedy troupe

Answer 5

when you are upset and everything is black,no matter how much others talk about love,family, friend...it just doesn't work. none of them make any sense to you.
you will get over this dark times,but it will come back sooner or later; there is no way to get over it for good,exept dead. we will get over this whole in our life only when we accept this in every moment in our life:this shall past. ofcourse,in my language,this sentence make more sense than what it does in english, but what i'm trying to say is,there is a moment in our life we feel we're happiest person in world,and times we feel nothing can be worse. but if you become free from you're self,just for a second,you will undrestansd that it really doesn't matter. if you look to you're life as a place for learning,like a school, that once you choosed to study somthing you really wanted.
when i think about life,it just about undrestanding;knowing;learning;as much as you can.just think you areon a trip to a place you always wanted to be.well lots of things may occure during youre trip.terrible things...
but at the end you'll get out of that place and you will return to youre home.with a wisdom and knowledge you didn't have before.
i really belive in this.eventhough, there are still dark days in my life,but in such situation there's always a light for me.knowing that this shall past,and this is just a part of my learning.
there is always this picture in my head,an endless place;limitless.an etrnity
that's the meaning of life for me.to be in that place.and in my opinion that only happens with absolute awarness.
i once read:man,awarness,freedom.well,again it makes more sense in my language.sorry for my bad english.i wish i could say it in my own language.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

To live each day as if it were your last, grab life by the hands, do not let it pass you by, If at the end you think you have nothing,, Remember you have life.

Answer 8

As far as I can tell, there is only a few logical options. To have fun, and reproduce.

Interestingly enough, this would make crazy group sex orgies the ultimate vessel to fulfillment.

Or die. It seems that no matter what we do in life, we must ultimately die.

Personally, I prefer group sex over death. Your call.

Answer 9

"the meaning of life is a number, and that number is... 1 !!! "

Answer 10

To develop yourself spiritually. It's all a big game! Enjoy playing x

Answer 11

To love honour and obey???
Ahhh cut the crap!
To be happy, enjoy the freedom we have,and have a damn good laugh on the way! ;O)