the answer 42 but whats the question of the meaning of life?

Question

when i ask whats the meaning of life people answer 42 and say thats the answer but i dont know the question what does it mean? and what is the true meaning of life?

ive never seen that movie but people just replied that and said it even came from the bible

thanks for that dude if you dont like it dont answer

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 "Math."

M = 13th letter in the alphabet
A = 1st letter in the alphabet
T = 20th letter in the alphabet
H = 8th letter in the alphabet

13 + 1 + 20 + 8 = 42

Answer 3

The 'answer 42' is nothing but a joke answer to the ultimate question in the 'hitchhikers guide to the galaxy' which Deep Though(a giant computer came up with after being asked the answer to life universe and everything.

but in order to come up with the answer to life universe everything you need the proper questions or questions to get the perfect answer which you need.

my thought on the 'answer'
Question:how many questions are there needed to answer the existence of life and reality?

answer:42

Answer 4

The possibly distorted version of the question, produced by the contaminated Earth computer, was "what's the product of 9 and 6". It has been noted by fans that this question is actually workable in base 13.

Answer 5

Life is doubt and uncertainty.

Answer 6

42 is from a sci-fi book, the book doesn't tell the question. The point is that "what is the meaning of life" is asked many times a day, please read old posts and stop posting it over and over.

Answer 7

They are just too lazy to type up more than the 2 numbers that mades up 42.
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The Meaning of Life

Life is a test, a mission, a journey of sorts.
It is what you make it to be.
May your life be meaningful, may it give joy to those you love and whom you love
May it be filled with fulfillment, success and triumph
May you live in the best of times
Give back to those whose lives will be a little less than yours
The time you spend here is an extension of the god that brought you here.
So reflect the light from whence you came from.
Light amidst the darkness of the sorrow of man.

QNH-Dec 31, 2007

Answer 8

u really just need to watch the movie

the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Answer 9

The answer 42 comes from the book The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. An alien race wanted to know the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. The computer that was given the question came up with the answer 42.

As for the meaning of life. I don't think you're meant to know. I think you're supposed to discover it as life goes along.

Answer 10

Read 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'. That's where it's from.

~Tiger

Answer 11

42 refers to the number of growth paths that a person must walk down in order to know why the universe exists.

Or maybe not. Lol!