what is life?

Question

what is the point of life? i mean, were just gonna die anyways and i honestly have noo idea what happens after that. i guess i believe in afterlife but im not sure of anything. and how come one day im all excited and happy about life and the next i feel like i have nothing to look forward to? i dont think there is anything wrong with me its just being alive and everyone goes through it. i dont know. just tell me your thoughts about this i want opinions of people i dont know

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

Why do we live?
The same reason a ball bounces then stops.
The same reason a flower blossoms then dies.
The same reason the grass turns green every spring, and then fades to brown in the fall.
The same reason the snow melts, and raindrops fall, yet return from whence they came.
The universe is really ran by cause and effect, this creates change, time.
In cause and effect, there is matter it becomes one thing and then changes to another.
There are simple things in this world like a grain of sand, and complex things like your human life.
What you must realize is that everything changes form. Just as there is still ink even after it has left the pen, there is still spirit after it has left the body.
You may speculate about the spirit, but that electricity flowing through you right now, keeping your brain animate, is your spirit. Think about a happy memory, you are not seeing that with your eyes, but with your mind's eye, which is your spirit and your brain coexisting.
Roll some dice for awhile until you get a wanted number (which =Consciousness), that's what life is.
We live because the people before lived. And they lived because the people before them lived, so on until we get to the earth first forming, taking position in the correct coordinates with the vague potential of letting simple matter evolve, adapt and survive, making it all the more complex.

Answer 3

Life. I am also baffled by it.

I researched a little and here's the definition of it:

Life is a condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects, i.e. non-life, and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally. A physical characteristic of life is that it feeds on negative entropy.

It's too complicated. It doesn't even fill my hunger for the answer.

Now my opinion:
Rational:
Life is being able to have thought, movement and emotion.

Religious:
It is the state where the soul is inside a body, as death is the exit of the soul.

I might have not satisfied your question, but at least I tried.

:-)

Answer 4

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

Life is a journey not a destination...enjoy the ride.

Life is about making choices and learning from their concequences. Concequenses can be suffered or enjoyed.

There are no mistakes in life...only oppertunities for new learnings. There are no problems in life...just oppertunities for solutions you haven't thought of yet.

All the answers to lifes questions lay inside you...You need only Look, Listen and Trust.


Peace and Love to all
R.R.B.

Answer 5

There is not a single reason for why you were born into this world except so that you could exist.

Life doesn't have a specific meaning, I think everyone makes up their own little versions.

Answer 6

You ignored 2: existence, AND WHY? God made you because of the fact He loves you. you have considered one of those element stated as 'purpose', because of the fact of this you're unique, distinctive. That makes you 'particular', particular to no longer me, who cares approximately me, yet particular to the guy who created you--God. So, having coming to this end it would do you plenty stable, to seek His will to your existence, and stay it to the better of your capacity. stable good fortune.

Answer 7

42 silly

Answer 8

we life to make this world better than before

Answer 9

Life is the end of death...

Answer 10

life is an abstract noun, obviously.

Answer 11

smell