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

I don't think there is one. However I do find that being evil means never having to say you are sorry. Unless you get caught and cannot lie your way out of it or blame it on someone else, anyway.

Answer 3

The meaning of your life is to take what God has blessed you with and to use it to bring glory to God.

Answer 4

to sample 42 delicious flavours of ice cream

Answer 5

Our purpose for God creating us is to serve God, He created us in his image to bring him Glory by how we live out our lives. The Bible says to Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Ecclesiastes 12:13, in another verse in the new Testament Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Matt 22:37, It is very clear from the Bible what our purpose and the meaning is that we are here. Jesus Christ died on a Cross for us. To wash away our sins, He gave his life so that we might live forever. He arose from the grave the third day forever washing away our sins, to all who believe and will call upon his name. Jesus offers the gift of slavation to all freely, it is by his grace and mercy that we are saved, He paid our debt for sin on the cross, Have you ever ask Jesus to forgive you and wash away your sins, he will. If you will confess to him you are a sinner and admit to him He is Lord you can be saved and have eternal life in Heaven with Jesus some day. If you would like to be saved right not just Pray this prayer of faith believing in Jesus, just pray Dear Jesus, I know and confess that I am sinner in need of salvation. I believe you died on a cross at calvery and arose from the grave to wash away my sins, I ask you right now to come into my heart and save me, I pray this Prayer believing in the name of Jesus Amen. If you prayed this prayer with a sincere heart you are now a child of God, rejoice that your name is written in the Lambs book of Life. Jesus will now send his Holy Spirit to come and live in your heart and guide you into all truth. If you have any questions just send me an email, God Bless YOU!!

Answer 6

Love.

Answer 7

The meaning of life is this... To give glory to God. That's it.

Right now you are glorifying God. By existing, by breathing the air He created, by thinking using the intelligence He gave you, by living, you are demonstrating God's patience, kindness, and long suffering towards His creation.

He shows kindness by giving you life to begin with. He shows patience and long suffering because every time you think, act, or desire something that is bad, evil, or wrong, it is a huge insult to the good God who created you, and by His standards, each of us should have been executed as enemies of God long ago, but He is patient and kind not to give us immediate justice, but to give us time to repent. When we die and stand before Him, and every time He withheld his anger, all of creation will glorify God for being so kind, and they will marvel that God gave you the number of years he did.

When souls are judged, God will be glorified as being perfectly Just and righteous by upholding His holy standard of His law. He will punish all criminals justly and be seen by all of creation as a good judge. Ever murderer and rapist will be punished duly and eternally for their crimes, but God doesn't stop there. He will punish all liars, all the cowardly, all the sexual perverts, and all thieves in the same way. The whole world will be condemned before a Just and Holy God on the day of Judgment, and the souls that are cast into hell will be laughed at and mocked by God and His holy ones. Read Psalm 52 and 59. Only a corrupt judge will let a criminal go because there is a debt to society that must be paid, and God is no corrupt judge. He will be glorified by demonstrating His perfect Goodness in Judgment of Souls.

However God will be glorified by some even more so through Jesus Christ who died on a tree two thousand years ago. This Jesus was the literal son of God, God in the flesh who went willingly to the cross to suffer and die to pay for the sins of the world. Jesus being nailed on the cross, with a pierced side and blood flowing from his body is the single greatest means that God will achieve His Glory, because on that cross, Jesus bled and died for your sins so that on the day in God's court you can be set free, not because of anything you've done, but by the merit of Jesus who knew no sin.

Those whom God draws to himself, and births in them a heart of repentance and faith in Jesus as savior and their king, they will be born again and saved from the eternal wrath and fury to come. They will forever glorify, thank, and praise God because of His goodness to sacrifice himself for wretches such as themselves.

So the purpose of life is God's Glory. He created us for that purpose, and will be glorified by us one way or another. One way in heaven with those who submit and obey Him. The other way in hell where the smoke of their torment will rise before God forever.

Answer 8

42. The mice told me.

Answer 9

I'm going to e-mail my guru---get back to you...

Answer 10

*Drinks*