the meaning of life?

Question

Any one !

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

The meaning of life is found in the living of it.

Answer 3

The meaning to life, is to learn where we came from, why we are here, and where we are going afterwords. Many people will give many different answers to this, but at some point it is necessary for all of us to go on this journey. To find the truth in life is its purpose. Those who do not even attempt to seek the truth, are going to be missing out.

Answer 4

was it 42? in the restaurant at the end of the universe? I thought it was 43? this is very important is the meaning of life 42 or 43? Maybe its 21, that was a very good age for me.

Answer 5

It doesn't have one.

And people who say it's 42 haven't read the book. The meaning of life is never discussed. 42 is the answer to the great question of Life, the Universe, and Everything... but... no one knows what the question is.

Answer 6

To Choose

Expounding a little further: To Choose Sides without precedence or influence...
God (YHVH) - Devil(Satan, etc.)
Life - Death
Good - Bad
Yin - Yang
Heaven - Hell(Gehenna)
Love - Hate
Water - Earth
Many others but the choice between our Father or the Fake is the main one.

Answer 7

You can see by the many different answers that many are selfish and misguided.


The Bible clearly says this --

Ecclesiastes 12:13 ". . .The conclusion of the matter, everything having been heard, is: Fear the [true] God and keep his commandments. For this is the whole [obligation] of man. ¨

..and why would we need to do that ?

14 ¨For the [true] God himself will bring every sort of work into the judgment in relation to every hidden thing, as to whether it is good or bad."


Yes , do not be mislead , our lives should be used not for selfish gain and the pursuit of fleshly pleasures , but in line with the requirements of the true God in the heavens , -- Jehovah.


For more Bible based info please feel free to email me.

Answer 8

i think the meaning of life is to see how well u do on earth to see if u deserve to be with God at the end of time....its like a little test and u only get one chance at it so dont be bad

Answer 9

The "Meaning of Life" is different for everyone.

A soldier will have a different answer than, say a grandmother.

Answer 10

every body has its own meaning of life according to his circumstances.
here the meaning of life cannot be described in a few words you should consults many scholars of different schools of thoughts.
but i suggest a link here
http://www.meaningsoflife.com/

Answer 11

the real question is why do we want to know the meaning of life? for if we seek then we shall find.