What Is The Meaning To Life, What Is Lifes True Purpose?

Answer 1

The philosophical question "What is the purpose 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 2

1) u determine ur own purpose of living, nobody can do that for u. U need to be creative there LOL. 2) because people are selfish, till someone is not dead, nobody cares. 3) Good point. Rightness should have to deal with morals. Society has laws. Now, even though it has these laws, not everyone respects them, because some think they are above the laws. However, laws are not perfect themselves, because they are made by humans whereas morals are not made by humans, they are thought by humans, but they are unachievable because they are perfect, whereas humans are not. So what laws do is to try and get as closer as they can to morals, but they will never be morals, so they will never be 100% right like ur own morals. So, the only way to be right is to be as OBJECTIVE as possible (this is why we have some good laws). "Outcast" nobody is an outcast, everyone is "pro-jected" into the World, therefore everyone belongs to planet Earth. Whoever said that to you, is an asshole, call him that if u see him. 4) Not true, you can decide not to study and get bad marks, I liked to learn to write and speak. What other education would you propose? U don't need to have just that education in ur life, school education is just a basics to get ur own independent education as u grow older and more experiences, see? Experience is another type of education, but unfortunately we cannot afford to experience everything and know everything, because the truth is we are all ignorant. Educating, means being slightly less ignorant, but it is a good opportunity to exploit u know? 5) A real teacher should take the best out of the student, not dictate. If u feel like ur teacher is ignorant, then change school. Sure, a good teacher is a right of everyone 6) Society is not necessarily limited, it is governed by some limited thinkers. Nothing is absolute, not even society. Society as a word doesn't even make sense, because Society gives an idea of togetherness, whereas we are all selfish and separated only a few are fortunate and have the money and govern others, this is not Society should be a cradle that protects and involves all humans. 7) I am not sure what u mean LOL. Well I lived my own life by myself and I was happy, because I listened to my morals. So you think immoral people live better? LOL. 8) What happened to you? Have you not been treated as an equal? Equal to what? To a delinquent? You should be happy you have not been treated as an equal, in fact we are all humans, but we are all different humans, so equality is not really a right noun to describe us. Good night xxx Eastern people always say: trust others but also check.

Answer 3

Well, it seems like now-a-days, the purpose of life is to get a high paying job and get paid millions of dollars so you can be rich and looked up at by other people... but to me the meaning of life is to do whatever it is that pleases you.

Answer 4

For those who said procreation, evolution cannot provide any purpose, including procreation. Evolution is a natural, mindless process. Evolution can no more give us purpose than a snowstorm can give purpose to a snowdrift.

There is either no purpose and no meaning or, if God exists, our purpose is to seek Him.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The meaning of life is summed up in one word. Procreation.
We are here to carry on the species. Nothing more, nothing less.

Answer 7

Life has no meaning. We just happened to have evolved and we decide to reproduce because it makes sense.

Answer 8

Cell phones apparently

Sorry........annyway.....

Nobody knows. But we have to ask, right? Us humans are quite the curious little critters

Answer 9

it was an accident...something sneezed us out and didn't even bother cleaning it up...

the meaning of life...Every rose, has its thorne...like every sunrise...has its sunset.

Answer 10

to own a purple elephant after labor day and gain 325 pounds from eating big macs
:)

Answer 11

to have done more good deeds than wrong doings