What is the meaning of Life?

Answer 1

42

Answer 2

I know the answer to this question, and yes, humans do have a purpose. However it's a logical fallacy to think that philosophy, religion or spirituality can provide the answer. This question can only be answered definitively by science.

All other attempts are mere opinions, many of which border on the rediculous! Once you read what I provided below, you will realize that.

THE ANSWER IS...not just yet. Please review the next few sentences for more background information...

As life evolved on the earth, natural selection allowed better and more intelligent life forms to come into existence, eventually leading to mankind. What most people don't realize, though, is that there is another side to this equation.

It has to do with the inherent opportunities there are/were in nature and the environment which offered the "niche" for a particular species to evolve into. For example, there was this prehistoric aquatic mammal which learned to dive down and catch fish to eat.
As it evolved over the centuries, its legs got smaller and smaller until it no longer had legs. During that same passage of time, its eyes grew larger and larger so that it could still see as it dived deeper and deeper into the deep dark ocean searching for food. See, what was happening was that the beast was evolving in order to refine its ability to survive in a particular ecological niche which was part of the complex natural environment offered on the face of the earth.

As the many and varied species of creatures expanded and evolved across the horizon, they did so as a way to capitalize on as many of the available ecological niches as possible. That is the other side of the equation. If an ecological niche does not exist, it is impossible for a creature to evolve in a direction that would need that non-existing niche.

NOW FOR THE ANSWER:
OUR PURPOSE IS, WAS AND WILL ALWAYS BE TO FILL THE HIGHEST AND BEST ECOLOGICAL NICHE THE EARTH HAS TO OFFER.

Another interesting side note is that we did not evolve simply & casually into this position of control and dominance over the world around us. Homosapiens competed with many other non homosapiens humans (such as the Neanderthals) for about a million years in a fight for survival. Bestowed upon the winning species would be the glittering prize...final control of this incredible ecological niche, and defacto control of the entire planet eventually.

This situation, which most people naively take for granted, has only been the case for about a hundred thousand years...when the last of the Neanderthals died out as a result of the smothering effects caused by the more well bred homosapiens.

BTW, it has been more recently discovered, due to our advanced technology, that there was very little in-breeding (if any) between the many species of people who shared our ecological niche over those million years. This means that the other species truly did just die out, they did not get absorbed by interbreeding their kind into the singularity of humanity which is represented by us today.

Once people realize what I've just told you, they will then be able to see why it's a logical fallacy to try and answer this question with philosophy, religion or spirituality.

However, you can pick up from here and ask questions like, "Do we have any resposibilities and / or obligations due to this powerful PURPOSE we've acquired in nature?" These are the types of questions which belong to philosophy, et al.

Answer 3

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 4

Ahhhh but the meaning of life goes beyond just 42


From the answer and the question you can in fact deduce that God has 13 fingers.

The Answer was given as 42, and on pre-historic Earth Arthur and Ford discovered that the question was what do you get if you multiply 6 by 9

Well 6 x 9 = 54. however, in base 13 this is actually 42 (4x13 + 2)

therefore God MUST have 13 fingers, and I reckon this explains an awful lot about the Universe.

Think I'm mad? why on Earth would we find a random number like 13 unlucky if there was not some deep meaning like God being behind it all!

Answer 5

We are spirtual beings having a human experience!! I believe the meaning of life, is in the lives of those we meet day to day.

Answer 6

The meaning of life is.......
There's a meaning for every single creature on this Earth.
We can seek deeply in our metaphysics origin and acknowledge that being alive doesn't necessary has to have a reason, a meaning. We can find a meaning in every single activity we perform.We also can find a meaning in every success and absolute satisfaction we reach.
You can meditate for yourself. There's also a meaning for your question, right?

Answer 7

There is none. Why must we always think there's a meaning to everything? I think we and our lives are quite irrelevant. I mean the earth is what 4.5 billion yrs old, the universe even older? Our lives are barely a flicker on the grand scale of things, so the best thing to do is just try to enjoy it as best you can.

Answer 8

Purely to propagate.

All organisms (forms of life) reproduce to transmit hereditary features to their offspring. That way, they propagate the species. To multiply their numbers.

Nothing too deep and meaningful about it.

Answer 9

All right what an idiots! The meaning of life is 43! Sheesh, you expect people to know that!

Answer 10

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.