What is the reason of life?

Question

Why are we alive? What is the meaning of life?

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

Imho, there is no special reason, no special meaning, until we pursue it. We make the reason for being, on our own. We make the purpose for our own lives. We come into being, as all accidents of nature, like all living things on earth, a mere speck of dust in the billions and billions of galaxies in the unknown universe. We live only for a very short time, in that short span we try to make sense of who we are and what we are all about, as individuals. That is how I define life. It is that struggle, that pursuit to make a lasting contribution, a legacy, to give a helping hand and maybe more. And that's the nearest thing to having an eternal life. As far as my little understanding of it, I think there's no after-life, it goes against all logic and science as we try to comprehend it. The knowledge that we impart, the contributions we make to humanity should be our religion, with love and pity for all other humans, who are being deluded by the grandest of all illusions.

Answer 3

Aaah, the three great questions of life:

1. Who am I?

2. Why am I here?

3. Where are the cookies?

Answer 4

Even if you do not believe in god or a higher being say for instance you were allowed to be here to choose good or evil which would you choose? why? and would your choice have an impact on this world. For better or worse? In case you did not know it your choices do effect the world the question is is it for the better or the worse. You decide.

Answer 5

The main issue with this question, as you'll see earlier than your eyes, is that all of us have exclusive factors. What do you desire to do with it? People turn out to be considering "Life is approximately dwelling", others believe "Life is approximately praising God", and of direction plenty of persons will say "cash". So it is as much as you! That's the quality factor approximately lifestyles, no person else can outline it for you.

Answer 6

Meaning of Life?

"Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations."

Answer 7

it is a question that even science can't answer.
it has both religious and scientific implications .
life is there to experience it to enjoy it .god has given this precious gift to admire the beauty f its creation all i can put forward is that the real meaning of life is to love your existence and everybody around you.just forget the question and experince it from the heart and you will get the answer.

Answer 8

To Love. To be just so amazed that we have these few short years to appreciate all that is around us. The good and the bad.

Answer 9

Buffalo is right. The chief purpose of man is to glorify God. Simple.

Answer 10

Jesus Christ. To know Him, and to make Him known. "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst...and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out."

Answer 11

It's your chance to show God that you love him by your own free choice and actions.