What is the meaning of life?

Question

Stranger, I knew at least one answer would be 42!

Answer 1

peanut butter and jelly sandwich.



...and toilets.

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

42

Answer 4

Main Entry: 1life
Pronunciation: \ˈlīf\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural lives \ˈlīvz\
Etymology: Middle English lif, from Old English lÄ«f; akin to Old English libban to live — more at live
Date: before 12th century
1 a: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body b: a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings c: an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction
2 a: the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual b: one or more aspects of the process of living
3: biography 1
4: spiritual existence transcending physical death
5 a: the period from birth to death b: a specific phase of earthly existence c: the period from an event until death d: a sentence of imprisonment for the remainder of a convict's life
6: a way or manner of living
7: livelihood
8: a vital or living being; specifically : person
9: an animating and shaping force or principle
10: spirit, animation
11: the form or pattern of something existing in reality
12: the period of duration, usefulness, or popularity of something
13: the period of existence (as of a subatomic particle) — compare half-life
14: a property (as resilience or elasticity) of an inanimate substance or object resembling the animate quality of a living being
15: living beings (as of a particular kind or environment)
16 a: human activities b: animate activity and movement c: the activities of a given sphere, area, or time
17: one providing interest and vigor
18: an opportunity for continued viability
19capitalized Christian Science : god 1b
20: something resembling animate life

Answer 5

To make a diffrence by any way you chose like sperding the word of god, helping charties, building houses,helping the enviorment, helping the poor and homless, and just making a diffrence in a good way and just being nice and not getting into things your not supposed to like drugs, fighting, killing and not obeying the law.

Answer 6

We came to this planet by a comet,
this comet was sent by other living form,
and this comet only took with him cells, after the evolution did the rest.
With time we will do the same , he will use comets to send human cells to send to other galaxies.
We just try to survive in this endless universe.
To Know more contact me , nobody knows about this apart from me.....

Answer 7

There is no meaning of life. Its what you make of it. Our purpose however is to copulate. At the end of the day it doesnt really matter tho so ive just given up on worrying about the meaning of life and just try to enjoy it as best as i can. If you enjoy your life doesnt that give it meaning :)

Answer 8

I think that there isn't really one, and that life is just this entity that happens. Life is only here for us to enjoy it before we die and move on to that place, so we might as well have a good time.

Answer 9

hi

Answer 10

I personally, think is to live life to the max and always take every single day like it will be your last, you never know when your going to die, so why take chances, LIVE YOUR LIFE AND TRY EVERYTHING, IF IT DOESN'T KILL YOU IT'S GOOD FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 11

This is extremely open to many different types of answers.

The meaning of life is to love. For what is existence? what is life without love?