Is this the meaning to life? This will get you thinking...?

Question

Let me hear your thoughts on this... the meaning to life is to survive and procreate. We look for the best mate possible so our genes have a better chance of surviving. We have the law of nature (treating others with decency even though we were not taught this) so our species will survive longer. Everyone's main goal in life is to survive and reproduce, but why? So that their offspring will live on and evolve. Do you agree? If so, what are we evolving towards?? A higher being??

Everything happens for a reason, so there must be a reason why everything is evolving, correct??

Answer 1

so are you saying we are going to evolve into a god some day so we can create our own earth or something

Answer 2

i've always thought God is a God of love, he wants us to choose to love him, but also to experience love. love, pride, loss, death, all human conditions that condition our free will. some of us turn our backs on God, but those that choose to love him know why... my dog loves me coz i feed it and take care of it, my son loves me coz i'm his dad (some free will there) but my gf loves me even though she doesn't have to or need to... love freely given is the meaning of life, i think.

from a non-spiritual pov, birds do it, bees do it. that's why i think strict science can't give a meaning to life... it's just a machine.

Answer 3

This is true in the most basic sense.  This is the Darwinian answer to the question of the meaning of life.  

What do I think?  I think that science is a great tool for accomplishing certain jobs.  I believe that you can't build a house using nothing but a screwdriver, and if you really want to understand life, you will need additional tools besides science.

Human intellect, passion, spirit, creativity, emotions, and wisdom skew the whole picture terribly. We have evolved past the level of concern with survival. It is no longer enough for us to make children and put food on the table.  Now we need to be happy.  We need to express ourselves.  We need to discover and invent and create--not just children, but paintings and architecture and poetry and drama, and music and and and and and....and web sites!

You may be able to say that survival and procreation are the meaning of life for most animals.  But I would argue that you can't say that about people.  John Keats and Albert Einstein both died childless. Would you argue that their lives had no meaning?

Great question!  Thank you :-)

Answer 4

The meaning to life is to survive(LIVE) and procreate(reLIVE)... and to LIVE is another topic..

Answer 5

read the book "selifish gene" by R. Dawkins,

we are survival machines, why? i dunno, thats what we are,

but i guess its all cuz of evolution,

if we weren't survival machines, would we be here after all these yrs?

Answer 6

Survive, sure. Procreate? Not for me. I don't reproduce. Overall, yes, the two seem to be that really important across the board for all living beings. Purpose? None. It's what it is. We will ultimately never know why. There is likely no why. At least for us. Our task is to come up with why or to be OK to live without it.

Answer 7

In a way, this is true. However, the meaning of life is to find our purpose. This may or may not be procreating.

Answer 8

I would think so! But the bible fits some place in life.  

Answer 9

The purpose of life is life itself.

The purpose of death is so that another generation might live. As Shakespeare put it, we "die as fast as we see others grow."

The concept of "evolving higher" assumes a hierarchical relation of stages of development (and smacks of Hegelism and Marxism). I prefer to think that life evolves but in response to changing circumstances rather than some kind of teleological destiny. It is what it is. If things happen for a "purpose," the answer is to be found in simple cause and effect. The rest is imagination.

As for happiness, I try to think of happiness as a by-product, rather than a goal-in-itself.

Answer 10

That's called natural selection. And what do you mean by "higher being"?

Answer 11

"Soul Mates and Twin Flames," Elizabeth Clare Prophet,

"Sexual Force or the Winged Dragon," O. M. Aivanhov,

"For Women Only," Shaunti Feldhahn,

"Sacred Psychology of Love:  The Quest for Relationships that Unite Heart and Soul," Marilyn C. Barrick, Ph.D.,

"Babies Remember Birth," David Chamberlain, Ph.D.,

"Life before Life," Jim Tucker, M.D.,

"Education Begins before Birth," O. M. Aivanhov, and

"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, are some consoling authors.  

Answer 12

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 se

Answer 13

yes the sole purpose of every single living thing on this planet, from bacteria to a small weed to a human, is to breed and reproduce its self. everything living now is perfectly made for todays conditions if it wasnt it would be gone by now. nothing evolves until there is a change in environment or living conditions first. spiecies evolve just to live in the current evironment or they dont and die off, no other reason. this is what our purpose is, not the meaning of life.  

Answer 14

There is no meaning whatsoever. People say happiness, happiness, and happiness! Do you know what that entails? Everything and that includes anal s*x and dirty Pesos.

I can't tell you, how could I anyway? But if anything, don't make the meaning or the purpose of your life trying to find the purpose or meaning.

Just disconnect.

Answer 15

my goal in life, is to  get a swanky carrer,

im female, im 21 and i dont want kids. cant stand them

id rather have it all!!!

and i got the metophorical balls to do it ^^

so in answer to ur Q, the meaning of life is happiness.

what ever makes u happy, achiveing my goals would make me happy, but someone eles, doing what they want makes them happy.

so yes, happiness ^^

Answer 16

i think everything happens from a cause, but not for a reason. there is not a plan we are completing. but a reason why things happen, like a reason why humans evolved intelligence, a reason why giraffes grew long necks ect.. i think higher being is not the right word. technically humans aren't really evolving. we just procreate, and few of us die before we do again. but we do evolve a tiny bit. some hookers in africa evolved to be immune to aids.  that a being evolves into something else does not mean the something else is a higher being, just a different one. if you mean a smarter being, that really won't happen  i don't think. probably what will end up happening is that we will all die and kill off a bunch of other stuff, and it will turn out that the "higher" beings are like cockroaches or something, and this type of half intelligent being that can speak and read and write, but can't properly manage that ability, is not prone to survival and will be "evolved" right out of existence, right into extinction. there's what survives and what doesn't as far as evolution is concerned. "higher" beings are the ones that survive, and that's it.

everything else you said i agree with. but for some people that doesn't seem like enough of a reason.

Answer 17

Life is to survive.

bt i really gt no idea on procreate coz im nt sure if Human looks for best mates in d sense of finding better genes.

bt however, we evolve n yes to a better being (the ones who can survive in any extreme conditions whn needed)