What do you think the meaning of life is?

Question

Your very own opinion on what you think the meaning of life is.

Answer 1

To live, to love, to learn, to procreate, to die!

And

To remember that I have answered this question one to many times!    Cheers!!

Answer 2

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 3

you give life its meaning

Answer 4

Happy

Answer 5

well meaning of life is that we lvie within a world, within a world and so fourth :] you live then die

you strive to make a body to live then dye in the end  

Answer 6

Life only has lasting and true meaning if it continues on past our physical death indefinitely.  If there is nothing after we die there can be no true meaning.  We can only find purpose in infinite existence because a finite existence can only have impermanent meaning.

If life was an accident...as Darwinian evolution suggests, then the answer to this question is simple...life has no meaning.

If life was not an accident, as many religions state (such as Christianity) then life may very well hold meaning.

Answer 7

meaning of life is to make others life meaningful..

Answer 8

42.

Answer 9

The biological purpose of life is to make more life -- and nothing more.  But people have the ability to choose their own purpose; Carl Sagan said, "If you want your life to have significance, do something significant."

Answer 10

To live in this Test Universe and compete to achieve a place nearer to those who are Prophets of Allah in this world and in the Here after

Answer 11

None, But you should start looking for it. or revise the question

"What is the meaning of your life?"

it depends on the person and your the one creating it.

like when an artist fell in love w/ art dedicating his love for it and creating arts for his life.

A parent who just had a new born baby and had the feeling that he/she had a greater responsibility for the son/daughter.

A kid who has a family that is suffering from poverty and wants his family to have the wealth they need for them not to suffer anymore.

Its like something that gives you happiness from within in which your interest no longer relies on yourself.

For some money, power, success or anything materialistic may be a meaning but it doesn't give real happiness

Answer 12

there is no meaning of life, why does there need to be?

we just exist.

Answer 13

A question that only serves the purpose of confusing the questioner. Looking for purpose is the equivalent of dogs chasing cars - it has drive and the ability to direct, but when you catch up with that car you don't know what to do with it.

Answer 14

Whatever YOU make of it.

Peace.

Answer 15

86 - 44

Answer 16

a lot of people are asking this question. and i do believe that you cannot just easily solicit ideas from someone about how his/her viewpoint about the meaning of life. the best person who can give you an answer to this question is YOUR OWN SELF.  

Answer 17

Shoesssss!!!  

Answer 18

I have heard it's 42