What is the meaning if life ?

Question

logical thinking leads to positive result

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

In a sense, there really is no answer.
The point of life (and why God made life so FREEEEEEEEE) is for you to find out for yourself.
Me, as a somewhat indifferent person, could go on with life with no real goal.
But thanks to religion (SDA, in particular), I now have a purpose.

If you are an atheist, or jsut someone who never really "got" religion, you should look into it.
You should definitely check out Christianity, IMO.
Muslim is very similar to Judaism, and Judaism (in the Bible) was nearly destroyed in terms of criticisms.
Hinduism implies that you are thousands (if not millions) of years old and you will always live over and over again until you hit the top, or bottom.
Buddism is less of a monotheology and more of a "meaning of life" religion.
It has many truths in it, but I wouldn't become a Buddhist.
It's really all up to you.
I put Wiki as a source so you can look up on religion in general if you are interested, b/c usually the Internet gives you criticisms of any religion you search.

Answer 3

interpret this question as "Whats the point in living"----There really is no answer to this at all, well actually religion solves this question. Religion is present because it is the answer to this question---People who ask "why am I here" which is the essence of your question can only turn to religion for answers----Religion is really a beautiful thing since it gives people the answer and makes them feel good and in the end its all about how you feel.

Attempt to answer question: I could say no---but then that would make life suck and no one wants or should believe that or else they should just not live---Every human action a person takes is to increase happiness--The point of relationships, products, and anything is to be happier with them than without them--So really the point of life is to know what you want and to get it---The process of getting there will make you feel good and it will give you meaning. For example, I wanted to make the basketball team, so I trained hard everyday and I got there---It gave my life meaning. Right now I have another goal which is to get a 2400 on the SAT and become a World Memory master--So I will train hard and it give my life meaning. If I didnt have these things that I wanted or goals, my life would really suck---I mean I would just basically live day by day and just ask "whats the point of living?" The point of living is to live but you have to answer why in your own way---you answer why with what you love---It may be the point of living is to play basketball, hang with friends, and to take care of my family and......

Life means different things for different people and life doesnt automatically mean something you have to make it mean something---thats just the way it works

Answer 4

The meaning of life was provided by the computer call DEEP THOUGHT.

After 7.5 million years DEEP THOUGHT finally was able to divulge the long awaited answer.

The meaning of life is 42.

Answer 5

What Wrath Warbone said.

Answer 6

The meaning of life is to search for the meaning of life. Ironic, isn't it?

Answer 7

You're born you live and you die, everything in between is of your own making and the interference of nature and your emotions

Answer 8

To survive.

Answer 9

To know God and to enjoy Him forever.

Answer 10

Know yourself and all things in moderation.