What is the meaning of life to you?

Question

To me it is Zero...

Answer 1

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 2

THIS IS THE REAL TRUTH I SAID WHAT I THINK IS THE MEANING OF LIFE HALF WAY THROUGH AND I ALSO INCLUDED A STORY THAT WILL OPEN YOURE MIND..................as we all know people die and people are born so we can conclude that life has life and death simple right? so after youve though about that wich is the simplest thing now think about that hardest thing as i came up with one day (my opinion) life mean everything and nothing if you are intellectual in any way you will soon have though about what i just sayed heres the explination behind it...example knowledge.... all we will ever get to learn is nothing compared to what it really is and what it really is nothing compared to what we have learned so everything as we know might not be real (before i go on i want to give a warning people that are not mentally ready should not read this if you are not ready for A truth then exit out right now) many people think i might be crazy because of what i just sayed but who is to say if im crazy or if im right is there a perfect human who will tell me im crazy (the answer is no)anywayz do you think what you feel is real just beacause you feel it or because you see it reality is a point of view and trust me there is more then one point of view allwayz if you think what youve been told is reall just because that person is smart important or any other type of these caracteristics well dont belive no human will ever be perfect enough to know what is the truth and what is a lie no human will ever know everything.so anything youre told by the any one you should belive unless you know it happend and you have expireinced for yourselfs (heres how ill prove im at least close to the truth but then again its my interpretation of the truth (what i mean is we all have our own interpretation))i say ummmm drugs are bad... y because they kill you y do thee kill you because......... well some people did someresearch on it and they said it killed you do i know any 1 that has died from doing drugs no but if scientist sayed so then they must be right. THINK FOR YOURSELF about what i just sayed do you think those scientist couldnt have been payed to say that?..............sorry to get off topic but im trying to open your lifes like mine was once opened and do you want to know what oppened it look for one of my Qs and i will answer it myself .

Answer 3

We can say that our lives have no meaning, but we can't live that way. No meaning equals no reason for living and that will eventually lead to insanity or suicide.

The only possibility for real meaning comes from God. If we reject God, then we will invent something and deceive ourselves into thinking that it is real purpose. Usually we invent something that we want to do anyway and pretend it is something that we were meant to do.

Here are the psychological tricks used by those who reject God:
1) Do something praiseworthy then praise yourself and imagine others praising you. Your mind will connect the feelings of self-esteem to meaning.
2) Keep busy all the time so you won't have time to think about a meaningless existence.
3) Focus on small pleasures, e.g. your morning cup of coffee. Let your day jump from one small good feeling to the next.

Or seek God.

Answer 4

To me, the meaning of life is to forever search for the meaning of life. It is sort of like danging a biscuit on a stick in front of a dog. He will chase it forever but never quite get it. I think that our existence is built around our quest to figure out the answer to this very simple yet complex question. It drives us to evolve and adapt so that we may try to move ourselves just one step at a time closer to try to find the answer. But like the dog and biscuit, everytime we take a step forward, we just see that there is another step to take.

Answer 5

Life isn't meaningful without creativity, adventure, learning, laughter, and joy. Is the deepest realities and inspires toward highest possibilities. Life is finding your fulfillment and happiness in oneself.

Answer 6

Life is living...

Get a Life!

Answer 7

for me it's a quest to feel at home where ever i am

Answer 8

The philosophical question "What is the pirpose or 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 9

simple- it's everything.