what is the true 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.
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"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

The True Meaning Of Life

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Answer 4

HEAVY philosophical question you got there. I'm not sure if I could answer that. Philosophers, theologians, even the saints and martyrs have long debated that question and none of them agree with each other. There still is no definitive answer to that to this day.

The link below will well demonstrate the differences of opinion from time immemorial to the present day. And that does not even include the eastern philosophies.

i myself asked that question several years ago when I was in High School. I've searched far and wide. Went through scores of philosophical books (the internet wasn't accessible then as it is now). Read through the different holy texts of the major religions of the world. Asked the opinion of priests, monks, learned scholars and aged people. None have given me a satisfactory answer.

Did I become wise myself through all those readings and research? Not really. I accidentally came across this poem several years ago and it changed my outlook in life. Also, it gave me an answer to your question which I could live with.

Its found on the second link below. Its called "The Desiderata."

Answer 5

Most people don't know why... and you end up with lots of meaningless answers.

Some think they know, and you end up with the wrong answers. Religious people will tell you that religion is the reason. Scientists will tell you that knowledge and learning is the answer.

But the answer is much more simple than all that.

Understanding happiness, and sharing that happiness, is the purpose of human life. Not the way a dog or cat "feels" happiness -- animals only feel happy when they have full stomachs...

The happiness that i'm speaking of, is the happiness of gandhi, standing thin and tired in a world of hate... the happiness of Dr. Martin Luther King under the oppression of racist men, the happiness of Mother Teresa in a village of dying children.

We have the ability to see all the good and bad, and choose to spread happiness, rather than hate.

Answer 6

We cannot able to describe how the motor rotating, to an animals. like that we cannot understand what is life and why we are here. Nowadays some people's are thinking we are the advanced . But the truth is nothing. Yes nothing.. The current world we are living is a system that created by humans not god are any power . But the function that program to us is feelings that results to sex and we creates a new one to this world.

*every living things have a system but we cant able to understand because the system is functioned in there feelings not in brain
*brain is just operator of the system that programmed
*At last what I am going to say is we cant able to understand any things about life till our death
*enjoy every moment of your life but don't hurt anyone that's makes gives u a better feel

Answer 7

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I honestly think that there's no meaning in life, you're here because you are, you could be someone else but you ended up becoming you. I believe our real purpose in life is to mate and die. But isn't it somehow liberating, to live just because you do. @pisces: The answer to that is in the human behavior itself, not life. I mean everyday in our life we seek for that someone equal, we have our own criteria on what we like and what we don't like. We like talking to people that share the same ideology as ours. Its only on the present era that this idea have been "tweaked" and it suddenly became "almost okay" to be different. But why do we prejudice people? the answer to that is because we seek equality, because we are selfish in this ideals. They find it hard that someone so different could be somehow alike.Its the same with animals, we eat them because they are not suppose to feel any "human connection". Well... that was a long rant, I mean I hope you see the point I'm trying to portray. I'm not very good at explaining things.

Answer 8

It s a test from God.
The whole meaning to/of your life has nothing to do with you at all but God.
"All things have been created through him and for him", Colossians 1:16

Nevertheless, seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all things will be added to you.
I have sank down into the depths of my soul, I have sank down into the depths of my deep, dark mind.
I have come face to face with hell and the devil and fire.
The sounds of the thoughts of men surround my mind, they play over like a winded tape, they don t make sense and yet people have said them.
The tongue is a fire and what you say can change the whole course of your life (James 3:6), out of it comes forth either life or death (Proverbs 18:21).
If a bad thing happens to you in your life, consider what you ve done...what you ve said.

Don t be so proud to think you re something so high man, put your mind down.
Be humble man. Don t be lifted up in your mind.
Listen to your elders, your father and your mother and respect them.

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Answer 11

Hindu creation stories: Life as divine play.

There is a being, an ultimate creative force, which is all things and all life, exploring all possible permutations of itself, and evolving constantly into new worlds of novelty.

There is no meaning, and everything is the meaning. Life is its own meaning.

This is my personal favourite idea of the universe. :D