What is the meaning of life? What do you think happens after death?

Question

what do you think

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

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

I think that after death nothing will happen. I mean of course, the atoms from which we are built will remain here..they will not disappear by miracle.
The meaning of life..I think that there is no meaning..we don't have a well-defined goal to achieve. I think that we are as important as the ants, the butterflies or any other mammals. We just have to reproduce in order to survive..nothing for, though.
We are made from star dust..the elements that we are made of have existed since the very begining and will continue to exist for eternity.
If the "big bang" has followed its cycle since forever the probability that we existed even in this shape exists..and we will surely continue to take different forms. It's some kind of cycle that we are trapped in..without our will.

Answer 4

I can't say what's the meaning of life... although, I have an appreciation of mine...
I, think that, from birth and on, my body has gone descending in valor meaning that it's quality is lesser and lesser everyday. This is a happening for everybody. My body is attached to my soul "spirit", by the Silver Cord permentatly as long as I live; when I'll die, the Cord will cul off from my body and will reach a very higher plane and my body will perish.
This is my opinion. Take care!

Answer 5

The meaning of life is love ;
death is just one form changing into another!

Answer 6

The meaning is all around you. I sat peacefully in my garden one morning in meditation. All around me I heard crunching. The horses were grazing, the sheep were grazing, and I heard and saw a preying mantise eating a grass hopper like a hoggie. The sound of life is the sound of life eating life. Life is a wild fire that burns as long as there is more life to consume. Put out a fire and what happens to the fire? Its gone. The ashes are full of trace minerals that replenish the earth. Thats all. Live well, love those close to you, charish the gift of life because it is incredible and fleeting.

Answer 7

The meaning of existence? by ability of that i think you advise the point of existence. existence has purely one purpose. The perpetuation of your species. nicely assorted issues take place to distinctive people. after demise. some people under the suitable situations and ecosystem are mummified. Others look to pass to pot and return the the dirt from which all existence got here fairly without delay. It fairly doesnt rely nevertheless as you will comprehend no longer something of the situation as quickly as you die it fairly is over for you. xx

Answer 8

We are the means that the universe has the ability to be aware of itself.
Life is an incident,when it stops it enters a state eternal nothing similar to what it was before it started.

Answer 9

I believe that we all have our own meaning of life. So ask yourself. And what happens after death is matter of our belief. Again, don`t want us to fight your fight for you.

Answer 10

CHEESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and then a fondoo party!!! :D
jk! i asked the meaning of life question once on here and i liked this answer----have fun and procreate then die
that was my favorite.... as for after death, i believe in reincarnation so yeah... :D

Answer 11

There is no meaning. Only life. Just ask an animal.