What is the meaning of life?

Question

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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

You have to figure out what the meaning of life is. It is interpreted differently by everyone. Life is the search for purpose. I live everyday with a goal of helping other people out if they need it. I find the more self reliant I am the more my life means to me. You find something that makes you happy and that you enjoy and you go with it. If new challenges face you, try to over come them. Life is a journey, explore. There are more than what meets the eye in life search.

Answer 3

The meaning of life has to answer the question of why we were put on this earth and what are we supposed to do now that we're here. Don't you agree?

Answerer 11 says, "The idea is that YOU decide!!" Answers like that and like Answerer 1 who says, "whatever you want it to be for yourself" and like Answerer 4 who says, "The meaning of life is exactly what you make it to be" are all nuts.

Instead of answering what we are supposed to do, those answers invite you to make up something you want to do and pretend that it is what we are supposed to do. It's like a child's game.

We may not know our meaning or we may not have any meaning but in any case, I know we can't make it up.

Real meaning comes from living for a real purpose and for that, you have to have God:

Here's what atheist Bertram Russell said about purpose:

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

Answer 4

There is no meaning of life.
It's for you to make with it whatever you want.
But first you must want to get the knowledge that will allow you to do that.
So if you stay in school and learn all you can then bust your butt to get the higher education you want then you can enjoy life and make a family and hopefully be a happy young man.

Though if it's what you want you can be happy with less education and being poor as well many have and many will.

Answer 5

to eat chicken wwings in the spicest sause ever created
that is the true meaning of life

Answer 6

The meaning of Life, is to LIVE, and yet not JUST to live, but to live WELL. Not meaning to live fast, or high, or dangerously, or even to use up every minute EXPERIENCING life as some do. I think it means to live life
DOING your VERY BEST,
BEING your VERY BEST,
GIVING your VERY BEST, and
LOVING your VERY BEST

Answer 7

the meaning of life is life itself!

Answer 8

You need to watch Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life"....then, you'll have all the answers!!!

Answer 9

..is to learn and advance the life force in the human realm and then to become a brighter and lighter energy that has the right voltage to reunite with the creator or the source.

Answer 10

One of the more easy questions.

The meaning of life is exactly what you make it to be.

Answer 11

An opportunity to do IT justice, despite all the odds to criticize IT!