what is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

To evolve as it unfolds upon you.
To be mesmerized by its complexity.
To be enmeshed in its nuances.
To remain a visionary when it sucks you.

Answer 2

80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions recently:

1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.

So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.


To be or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is inevitable.....

Answer 3

Life is empty and meaningless. Your life however is a different story. Whatever values you decide to apply to your life are what's important and meaningful to you. We all learn a value system of some kind when we are young and then we get to question everything we've ever been taught and re-evaluate it to see if we want to accept or reject it. The meaning of life is whatever you want it to be. We all get to decide what our own meaning of life is and there is no right or wrong.....as the Buddhists say, "it just is"

Answer 4

the meaning of life to me is what you make of it.

Answer 5

The meaning of life is the inverse of the meaning of death.

Answer 6

Life:
1. The condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.

Answer 7

The answer is...42.

Excerpt from Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

"Good morning," said Deep Thought at last.
"Er... Good morning, O Deep Thought," said Loonquawl nervously, "do you have... er, that is..."
"An answer for you?" interrupted Deep Thought majestically. "Yes. I have."
The two men shivered with expectancy. Their waiting had not been in vain.
"There really is one?" breathed Phouchg.
"There really is one," confirmed Deep Thought.
"To Everything? To the great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything?"
"Yes."
Both of the men had been trained for this moment, their lives had
been a preparation for it, they had been selected at birth as those who would witness the answer, but even so they found themselves gasping and squirming like excited children.
"And you're ready to give it to us?" urged Loonquawl.
"I am."
"Now?"
"Now," said Deep Thought.
They both licked their dry lips.
"Though I don't think," added Deep Thought, "that you're going to like it."
"Doesn't matter!" said Phouchg. "We must know it! Now!"
"Now?" inquired Deep Thought.
"Yes! Now..."
"Alright," said the computer and settled into silence again. The two men fidgeted. The tension was unbearable.
"You're really not going to like it," observed Deep Thought.
"Tell us!"
"Alright," said Deep Thought. "The Answer to the Great Question..."
"Yes!.."
"Of Life, the Universe and Everything..." said Deep Thought.
"Yes!.."
"Is..." said Deep Thought, and paused.
"Yes!.."
"Is..."
"Yes!!!?.."
"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

Answer 8

A film by the British comedy troupe "Monty Python".

Answer 9

"The course through life
is determined by hundreds of thousands,
millions of choices.
What to feel, what to want,
What to say, what to eat, what to do.
And each and every choice
is for health, for love and for God
- or not.
Thus all are spiritual decisions."

- John Diamond.

Answer 10

Somebody is not paying attention so I'll repeat it one more time: Life is that part between Birth and Death, wherein we are expected to Do and Be.