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What do you think is the meaning of life?

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  1. Life is full of beauty and mystic wonders.

    The meaning to life depends on what you want to do with it.

    Every single person has a separate life and therefore there are many different meanings.

    Thomas don't be a jerk, I think that the asker just wants to know what other people think. Like a survey, no right or wrong answer, only a question.


  2. Life has several meanings,, which is clearly defined in this page.. you can understand better here..

    http://hubpages.com/_yaans/request/4380/...

  3. 1. I'm serious.  There are many similar questions asked.  Did you view them?

    2. Why are you asking for opinion....  and saying that there's no right or wrong.  It seems that you already have an answer in your mind.  Why don't you share with us ?

  4. The meaning of life is love.

  5. google thinks it's 42 i don't know why

    i personally don't have an opinion on it.. it's just one of those things that i don't think we will ever know.

  6. It doesn't matter what we think because there is no definite meaning to life.

  7. 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)-

  8. 80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

    I've come to two conclusions within the past years and a half:

    1. Life has no meaning

    2. Life has a million meanings.

    First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

    Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.

    So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.

    To be or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is

    inevitable.....

  9. Life - approximate 70 year window of opportunity to express your love for God and your fellow human being.

    j

  10. The meaning of one's  life differs from person to  person and time to time .The above given answers given by different persons  suggest a lot .There is not  one and only meaning of life .The world is very  transitve by nature .So also we and our thoughts,decisions,and objects.

  11. We are here to prepare for eternity, where will you choose to spend it?

  12. i keep getting thumb downs for this, but here's my opinion yet again.

    People often can't answer this question because they don't even know what the question means.

    What does it mean to have purpose? Purpose as defined by webster online "2 a: a statement expressing the essential nature of something "

    Now that says ESSENTIAL. To me that means NEEDED. NECESSARY.

    So for something to have purpose, it must be in relation to something else. That means purpose is subjective; meaning purpose has no natural/rational explanation.

    Lets delve into this further, cause ive thoguth a long time and i want to talk about it haah.

    Lets place ourselves in two possible universes.

    The first is the rational/scientific big bang universe with no God attached. It's pretty obvious that in this universe, we have no purpose. If life itself were extinguished, who would care? Why does life need to exist anyway? It really doesn't NEED to. In fact, existence really doesn't need to. It just does; there isn't purpose behind it.

    The second is the God universe with the ultimate, allpowerful creator. Even in this universe, we're ultimately devoid of meaning. This is because we would derive our meaning from God, but what is God's meaning? Why does God NEED to exist?

    He doesn't. If God were non-existant, there would be nothing to care about it. The universe, with or without God, is pointless because existence doesn't NEED to exist. it just does.

    Thats how i see it anyway. So basically, I'm a nihilist, but the obvious corollary is that if nothing has a purpose or any natural value or significance, then nobody is gonna point a gun at me if i lie to myself and make believe that it is important.

    Thats what I do. I let my emotions handle the task of self-worth and purpose because, inevitably, the question itself is subjective and emotions are real good with subjective things.

    What is the purpose of bacteria in relation to ultimate existence?

    It's far less complicated than us, and yet i have trouble telling you the purpose of bacteria. I can only say the purpose of bacteria in relation to earth, but why should earth exist? Wats the purpose of earth? Whats the purpose of our galaxy? Of the universe? Of existence?

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