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

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.According to physicists such as John Bernal, Erwin Schrödinger, Wigner, and John Avery, life is a member of the class of phenomena which are open or continuous systems able to decrease their internal entropy at the expense of substances or free energy taken in from the environment and subsequently rejected in a degraded form

A diverse array of living organisms can be found in the biosphere on Earth. Properties common to these organisms—plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea and bacteria—are a carbon- and water-based cellular form with complex organization and heritable genetic information. They undergo metabolism, possess a capacity to grow, respond to stimuli, reproduce and, through natural selection, adapt to their environment in successive generations.

An entity with the above properties is considered to be a living organism, that is an organism that is alive hence can be called a life form. However, not every definition of life considers all of these properties to be essential. For example, the capacity for descent with modification is often taken as the only essential property of life. This definition notably includes viruses, which do not qualify under narrower definitions as they are acellular and do not metabolise. Broader definitions of life may also include theoretical non-carbon-based life and other alternative biology. Some forms of artificial life, however, especially wet artificial life, might alternatively be classified as real life.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

Life has no meaning, just get on with it.

Answer 6

its different for everyone. the meaning of my life is different from the meaning of your life. but the meaning of life in general is as far as i can tell to reproduce the species and then die at some point.

Answer 7

to love God and neighbor. If you are in the service of those more needy than you, then the meaning becomes crystal clear. there are no words to define what can only be felt in the soul. Never put yourself and own selfish desires first...try it and see. Live it and be transformed.

Answer 8

Life is a waiting station where no one knows the time of his train. But the train for sure is coming to takes us to God one day.

Answer 9

It is different for everyone although everyone will know the meaning when I say 'the meaning of life is to live joyfully'

Answer 10

This will take a minute, so bear with me...

Prior to the creation of the physical universe as we understand it, there is only God. God is all that there is and there is nothing that is not God. God is composed entirely of conscious energy and is infinite and eternal. God is aware of every aspect of God's divine nature, but being infinite - or all that is - God cannot experience every aspect of divinity.

Consider - if you wish to experience that divine aspect of yourself called forgiveness, it requires there be someone other than you who has done something for you to forgive.

So desiring experiential understanding of every aspect of divinity, God modified the vibration patterns of God's body of energy, manifesting the physical universe according to the physical laws our scientists are beginning to understand, thereby initiating a process of evolution that results in intelligent animal creatures that God can infuse with individuations of the personality of God.

God grants these individuations the gifts of free-will and a veil of forgetting so that they perceive themselves as separate from each other and from God, allowing them to interact and experience all that can be experienced.

All of this is truly a physical illusion created by God for the purpose of experiencing all that can be experienced. The underlying reality is that all matter and all individuations of consciousness are composed of the only thing that exists - the infinite God.

God has further provided a plan whereby the evolving creatures of consciousness can find their way back to the source. This plan merely requires the individual to bring their own nature into accordance with the nature of God - which is pure, total and unconditional Love. When the individual chooses to live in accordance with the will of God by loving all of God's creation just as God does, their vibration patterns are brought into accordance with the divine source and they are returned to the loving arms of the Creator.

This was the lesson and example of the life of Jesus, and the core fundamental teaching of all major religions and great teachers of the ages.

So the short answer is - you are God experiencing all that can be experienced. So is everyone you will ever meet. All is One. Our purpose is simply that - experience all that we choose. As we grow spiritually we will understand we are all connected and part of God. When we choose to do the will of God by loving all of his creation even as he does we will return to the presence of God.

Jesus demonstrated this by loving even those who tortured him to death. This is why he ascended to the Father.

Answer 11

It WAS 42 Douglas Adams fans ;)

Now it's just
"because I said so"