what do you think the meaning of life is?

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is there really a meaning of life???
what is your perspective of the meaning of life???






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what is your perspective of the meaning of life???

is there even a meaning of life






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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

I will answer your question.
When I was a small child, we were very poor and lived in a remote town.
One day, on the road, I found the broken pieces of a mirror.
I kept only the largest piece. I started scratching it on a stone, I made it round.
I began to play with it as a toy and became fascinated by the fact that I could reflect light into dark places where the sun would never shine-in deep holes and crevices and dark closets.
It became a game for me to get light in the most inaccessible places I could find.
I kept the little mirror, and, as I went about my growing up, I would take it out in idle moments and continue the challenge of the game.
As I became a man, I grew to understand that this was not just a child’s game but a metaphor for what I might do with my life.
I came to understand that I am not the light or the source of light.
But light-truth, understanding, knowledge-is there, and it will shine in many dark places, only if I reflect it.
I am a fragment of a mirror whose whole design and shape, I do not know.
Nevertheless, with what I have I can reflect light into the dark places of this world-into the black places in the hearts of men-and change some things in some people.
Perhaps others may see likewise. This is what I am about. This is the meaning of my life.”

Answer 3

It is obvious that meaning and purpose of life are extremely important questions judging by how often they are asked.

Real meaning comes from living out your real purpose. But the very definition of purpose implies a designer and a plan:

“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell (20th century mathematician and philosopher)

If you're willing to accept that you may be a created being, then you can talk logically about real purpose and real meaning. Otherwise, you are just speaking about getting some good feeling and feelings are different for different people. Many people, for example, get feelings of purpose by gaining power over other people or by accumulating wealth. I think that usually we get these feelings when we pump up our self esteem (self pride).

I think the two choices are:
1) Seek your Creator.
2) Spend your life in search of meaningless good feelings.

Answer 4

Yes I believe that existence for repeat offenders is well.I imply reason all these murders might had been avoided if the killers could have stayed in prison. I can relate to the sufferers households. My pal used to be killed in 1997 and they have got no leads.An I recognize normally the jury permits them to off however come on if the fellow or woman killed greater than as soon as you realize hes going to do it once more.

Answer 5

Asking what is the meaning of life is like asking what someone's motivation is for doing a scene in a play.
Spencer Tracy said very plainly. Your motivation is it's your job. You read the lines and follow the directions. The meaning of life is-you're alive-make the best of it. Why do people always try to complicate such simple things?

Answer 6

No one knows the meaning of life. Life itself is the search to find a meaningful existence. Some spend their whole lives searching. Some people settle for what they have and are content. It just depends on the person. For me it is making the best of what I have. Taking a positive approach on life makes it seem more meaningful to me.

Answer 7

I think there is a meaning of life...
Personally, I think it's to just be the best person we can be... It's also to give back, to the world, or higher power for the wonderful gift life is. I may be wrong, but perhaps it's also to give the gift of life to others, by having kids and raising them to be the best they can be. Maybe I'm off the wall, but it's the way I think... Good luck

Answer 8

In my opinion,
at the 1st second we come to this earth, the meaning of life is born.
but,
if we facing some failure and problem,started to feel disappointed and feel life is meaningless, then life means death.
if we success in doing something and feel happy, life means joy,energetic.
if our life come to an end soon, life means the process to death.
No matter what ,life have real meaning or not (in fact , no one know), it depend on what u do think and u do in ur life, u can do something outstanding and give ur own life definition.
For me, life is live with purpose and die with no regret.Jz do something u really dream to do, realization make my life alive.

Answer 9

the life is just a short time to prepare our home in heaven,It just like a bridge to cross it,The big big big problem of people in this world that they think that this life is the the place to make they dreams come true,so the people they think like this had a broken hearts,because the land of all dreams of us isssssssssss in heaven

Answer 10

so why do i exist?what's the purpose of my existence? is that what you are trying to ask?..

well,basically the essence of my life is to live it to the fullest.,as if it was the last(as what most of them answered). but it doesn't end there. it's meaning is not completely shown.
life is to be treated as a gift, well actually it is, treasure evry moment and learn to be appreciative.

Answer 11

The meaning of life is to always search for the meaning of life...........knock yourself out.