What is the point of life?

Question

What is the point of life?

Answer 1

...to do your best today and better tomorrow to make YOUR world a better place...

Answer 2

This is a potent question.  Many people are waking up to this exact question, and are seeking out answers.  We have more and more stuff, but depression is at an all time high and there is crises in every part of the world.  Why?

We are in a closed system of nature and we are all attached.  All of the suffering and crises as individuals, also as a collective is because we are not carrying out what nature wants from us.  Nature wants us to unite and change our qualities, and be in harmony with it.  If we look at nature, even our own bodies.  Everything works in harmony, nothing takes more than is necessary and it works in homeostasis.  Imagine if your heart decided that it wanted more for itself, and stopped caring about the body, we would die.  But human nature is for us to be against one another and use others for our own fulfillment.   And as time goes on, we will see more and more how we are tied together.

There is a method that can alter our current trajectory.  And it is for people like us, who ask "what is the point of life?"  I have clarified for myself that I have found the answer.

If you are interested in learning more, here is short video clip where Kabbalist Rav Michael Laitman visits South America and talks about the purpose of life:

http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/kabbalah...

Answer 3

I think the point of life differs

because everyone has a different "point" or meaning to life.

It is probablly the most complicated question I have ever been asked.

Because I do not yet know the answer.

& I will never know the point to YOUR life. only you will.

and it might take a lifetime to figure out.

But someday...

Answer 4

To search for that meaning...and in the meanwhile, learn, experience, and grow.

Answer 5

the meaning of life is to live.

Answer 6

To learn.

Answer 7

Fundamentally, the only proof of existence is the present; the past proves it and the future ensures it. The point of life is to enjoy the present in a way that you'd wish to continue it (depending on how looong you PLAN to live based on current circumstances).

Answer 8

Knowing, serving and glorifying your Creator, the Lord Jesus Christ.  John 3:16

Answer 9

The best way I have heard it described is by C.S. Lewis.  Life is like a story you read.  In any story there is suffering and hardship.. but there is always a goal that you want to obtain.  Whether that be love, happiness, union with God, or whatever, there is always obstacles in the way.  Now leaving aside a major religious component here I'll just say that after you read any story or book you realize that having those bumps in the road or little instances that taught us something is worth while... because in the end you have evolved and become into something based on those experiences and lessons..  Now its another argument if one wants to listen to one's thoughts and conscious or not, but the fact remains a story is only as good as the journey and struggle was to get to that end.

And that is our life.. a journey and a struggle at times.  We are to learn, to experience pain, suffering, happiness, friendship, love.. to pass through the valley of shadows..  

the journey makes the ending..  no matter how extreme or difficult or happy that journey may be..  we have no choice but to be shaped by the experiences and choices we make.  It's like a test in many ways.. Obviously if you dont believe in an afterlife this is a pointless response... i am obviously coming at it from that point of you.

take care

Answer 10

there is no point u just live learn and die

Answer 11

to multiply, have s*x and get kids

Answer 12

To learn all that you can, and just to be happy I guess, but I think you'll have to figure out your own meaning...

Answer 13

solving problems

Answer 14

"Dossier on the Ascension," Serapis Bey,

"Men in White Apparel," Ann Ree Colton,

"The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock, http://www.divinecosmos.com

"The Great Divorce," C. S. Lewis,

"The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet,

"Light Is a Living Spirit," O. M. Aivanhov.

Answer 15

I don't think it has any meaning. I really, really don't.

Answer 16

it doesn't matter.  you are asking like you chose to live.

Answer 17

i ask the same question sometimes.

i dont think theres a right answer for that, just everyones opinion

life....is crazy. no one TRULY knows how we even came about.

i think the best thing we even know about life...is that we really know nothing at all. think about it

Answer 18

To develop roundness

Answer 19

You do realize that no one can answer that question except yourself?

Answer 20

the point of life is to find out the point of life..

Answer 21

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)-

After death we become ash.-