what is the real meaning of life?!!not 42!?

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

To make babies and have completly ordinary life untill the Intergalactic Warlords from Omicron Persei 8 have gathered enough data on their science experiment and blow the Earth up, killing everyone but the best military leaders who will leader the Omicronian armies to victory over the Slugmen of Banthaldar or have their heads bitten off by the King of the Omicronians who is starving because he is on a diet so he can fit on his warhorse to lead his men into battle and most likely get stuck by a plasma grenade (the slugmen's signature weapon) as he has the most ornate armor to protect if he does get stuck by a plasma grenade, but it doesn't work because the key alloy was going to be forged on Earth which is now blown up, so the most brilliant human general takes control of the Omicronian army and defeats the Slugman by not wearing any armor to not attract any attention, so goes unnoticed in battle, which eventually helps him to conquer all 42 know universes. Darn! The meaning is 42!

Answer 3

Ok, first off, 42 was the answer to the ultimate question, not the meaning of life, and if you recall, it was the answer to the wrong question...

That aside,

The meaning of life is as personal as the people searching for it. For every person it is different. For some, the pursuit of immortality (through children or noteriety), for others the search for reassurance through "spiritual enlightenment".

Personally I think the pursuit of meaning in life leads directly to insanity. Be good to others, enjoy the time you have (because nobody really knows what happens when you die) and recognise the value in every day.

Answer 4

Are you really asking the meaning of life from Yahoo Answers? Good luck. (by the way, it's 42).

Answer 5

No one really knows THE meaning but by the catholic church it's to be a good person and believe in christ (but THE meaning is 42)

Answer 6

Nobody truly knows the real answer. I would say, make your life a worthwhile one - explore, learn, contribute and be responsible as a part of the universe, strive to be the best you know you can be, and enjoy the process at the same time (i.e. take the bad times along with the good).

Answer 7

the meaning of life (on earth) is to wait until it is ur time to go to heaven (wen god calls u) and also be nice while ur here so u and everyone else doesnt have to be miserable wile were waiting to go to heaven
the meaning of life in heaven is to live out the eternity in harmony peace and happiness
to seek out eternal life is something u dont want to do( ull piss off god) and kill urself early is not smart either everyone is called to heaven wen their time has come u dont have to earn it (dont be sad wen someone dies ull see them again for along time) and also if ur wondering y the nicest people die they die early cuz they deserve the eternal peace and happiness that is y i try to be nice to everyone
tis is purely just my belief

Answer 8

life is just to live it and have fun,don't let nothing stop u cause u can do what ever you want so have fun have friends,grow up and let life going when u get a child and teach them so they can live their life and when u go u no where you'll be happy with what u have done.

Answer 9

To experience and to evolve.

Answer 10

To fall in love ............... and be loved back................. A love that is greater than the sum of its parts.