What do YOU think is the meaning of life?

Question

I want YOUR answer. The answer that you think is true or just one you made up. I want to know what other people think what the meaning of life is.

I don't have a theory, but, by the time people have answered this question, I would probally make up my mind.

Answer 1

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 2

I think that the life cannot have one true honest meaning, because for something to be true, it must ALWAYS be true, there fore if the meaning of life was to create peace then we would always be at war because we wanted to be the ones who created peace,

Self contradictorary isnt it,

And if the meaning of life were to find love, then wouldnt you die, because you found it, but when it left you because you were dead come back to life?

The whole thing is an impossible wuestion to answere honestl without any good aguement


then there can be many meanings for life that one can only discover in dying.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I don't think there is a meaning to life.

We just are, we exist, we are, what we are, this is all that we will ever be. Why can't people be happy with the here and now, and stop worrying about "the meaning"....

Enjoy what you have, you only get to live that moment once.

Answer 5

My answer is that life has no meaning, no purpose, no point, no anything unless there is a God. We can invent things to do that will get us through life without committing suicide, but those are feel-goodisms and not purposes.

Real meaning can only come from God. I reason that God put our need for meaning into our human nature to point us to seek Him. So seek God and find God (and meaning and everything else) or seek ways to forget that our lives have no meaning.

Answer 6

You'd be served better if you asked yourself what the meaning of life is to you.
It really is an individual journey, IT'S YOUR LIFE, and it's whatever you say it is for you.
You either find your own inner compass in life or somebody else's.

It is still nonetheless, thought provoking and enlightening to discover what others have to share from their own perspectives.

Answer 7

I don't think life has meaning, I think it's just billions of multi-/uni-celluar organisms just going their own way avoiding and reacting to eachother and things in facinating ballet of well life lol...
I think the meaning of life is to sustain long enough to prove to the universe that multi-celluar organisms aren't just a crazy thing that ruined on pissant little planet in the outer spiral arm of who cares lol...
I think the meaning of a human's life is to sustain itself long enough to do far more good than harm, to procreate, and to leave the place more sustainable and humane than when we entered...
but the meaning of life ingeneral, for me it doesn't need a meaning, just to keep being the aweinspiring flow it is.

Answer 8

For me, the meaning of life is finding happiness. I find happiness in caring for and being with the people in my life, advancing in my career, and many other things. Without happiness, money and other material things just don't seem as important. Good luck to you. :-)

Answer 9

Life has no meaning unless that one which is attempting to live lives it purposefully Yes, we can write a voyeuristic statement to sound pretty and deep, but, the meaning of life is simply to live.

Answer 10

The meaning of life is whatever you choose it to be.

But, if that theory doesnt tickle your fancy, just go search 'life' in the dictionary. They have a meaning in there.

:)

Answer 11

To give life meaning.