Is this the Meaning to Life?

Question

I believe Living organism only have three goals which are to; survive multiply & spread.

I watched a program about human exploration to Mars. But breifly

The USA can get humanity to Mars with only using 50billion which is in nasas budget. It would take 6 months to get to Mars they could stay there for a year and return taking a total of 3 years the entire mission. what is taking them

They can shield against solar rays and say cosmic rays are less harmfall than cigarette smokers

3 years social isolation from Earth.

Humanity needs to spread life outside Earth

They said by doing what we do here on Earth ie pump out green house gases we could in only a few decades warm up mars by trapping sun. Water which is known to be on Mars will melt and appear on surface and the process to turn Mars into a world exactly like in a few thousand years if not maybe we could speed up the process but we should begin this mission as soon as possible. Send three by next decade have 1,000 by 2030. Forget looking for life we should plant the seeds of it. Human kind needs to conquer the universe why not start with mars. I seriously feel this is the meaning to life.

Anyone else agree with me otherwise why not?

Answer 1

i dont think that is the meaning of life. we as humans have advanced and evolved over millions or years. conquering mars is just another advancement in our technology and intellect. i dont know what the meaning of life is it is whatever you want it to be. we still dont know why we are "here". why we were created there is no scientific reason "why". we are here to exist. i believe we will evolve into alien lo0king beings in1000 years and will be living on the moon mars and planets that we have not discovered yet...there is no such thing as impossible so the possibilities are not limited. in 1000 years after we have destroyed earth and her beauty and sucked dry all the resources we will do the same to mars or anywhere else we go.

Answer 2

why not warm up a cold place like Europa I was under the impression that mars is inhospitably hot our Earth came alive after the last ice age so wouldn't we be better concentrating on trying to thaw somewhere out? But i don't agree that the meaning of life is to destroy our own planet then look to what maybe next!

Answer 3

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 h**l

...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 4

No.  There is no inherent meaning to life.  Life has whatever meaning we give it.  

Answer 5

Wicked!

yeah sounds good, but maybe we should spend that budget on fixing ours instead of destroying another..

Answer 6

Actually we have ony one meaning. To reproduce. But humans and some other animals are more evolved. So they have too much brain power to be occupied by only one goal. So we find other meaningless things to distract us up until and after our main duty is complete. This passes the time as we slowly wait for our other goal to be reached...this being death of course.

ENJOY!

Answer 7

personally i think the meaning of life is basicaly to live i know that sounds stupid but think it through and you will see what i mean