What is the meaning of life

Question

what is your interpretation of the meaning of life?

Answer 1

multiply!

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

42 XD

Answer 4

to reproduce

maybe help improve the world, scientists inventions

and die

the cycle continues

Answer 5

To live...experience...never regret...and only learn from your mistakes not frown upon them, the meaning of life....is unexplainable....

Answer 6

self fulfillment. if you are happy you succeded in finding meaning in your life.

Answer 7

To acquire KNOWLEDGE.That leads to the path of TRUTH.And the

TRUTH is nothing but GOD.

Answer 8

1.most difficult thing to pursue...

2. opposite of death

Answer 9

To live my life the best I can, enjoy as much of it as I can and enjoy the people that I know and love!

Answer 10

To be born - to reproduce - and to die.  

Answer 11

You can only answer that question on your own.

to complete your own aspirations, and live for oneself.

yeah mannn.

Answer 12

the meaning of life is to find meaning

live a life of meaning and worth

that is the easiest way to state it without going into religious views

follow the golden rule, enhance the lives of your fellow man, and enjoy your time on this planet.

over the years i realized that over complicating the answer to this question will cause you to ponder the true answer and never find a resolution you can "live" with so to speak, so I just chose to state the simplest things i could think of.

Answer 13

the moment b4 you die , you will be able to answer that question yourself

Answer 14

to pay all the karmic balance of life...clear all debts of karma

to suffer all the suffering that we have given onto others.

to enjoy the pleasure we get back from all the pleasure we have given to others.

finally,realize God...and reach Him and never come back !!!

Be at his feet eternally...!!! Be a being that never born or dies...eternal bliss and a life that serves nothing else but God !

We all will reach him someday and never return to suffer on earth again..so till then,live well and just do only GOOD not to RETURN again !!!  

Answer 15

This is an easy one.

The meaning of life is:

Its meaningless.

(that doesnt mean that we all shouldnt get along and be kind to each other etc.....in the long run though its all meaningless)

I think Shakespeare said it best in Macbeth:

"Life...it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

signifying nothing."

Answer 16

Living happily, following your gut instincts to see where they take u.  

Answer 17

To make a difference is someone elses life

Answer 18

The big question for every individual is "what is the meaning of MY life?"

To answer that question and to live life accordingly is the meaning of life.  Live for yourself and for what you think your life should stand for.

Answer 19

To understand the meaning of life ... live it and days will teach you the exact meaning of it.  

Answer 20

enjoying and believing god and that jesus christ is your savior.and teach ppl.the rest idk god knows

Answer 21

You catch the meaning of life in your children's eyes... it's indescribable how you feel when you catch the sense of it, when you know that you've been put on earth to perpetuate selflessness and have a desire and opportunity to instill that in another human being and still have the strength to not judge them and accept that you may fail and to be able to shrug off your failures and find meaning in them. Oh, that, and the ability to write run-on and incomplete sentences and laugh about your other shortcomings. It doesn't hurt to be able to tell good jokes and appreciate good beer.

Answer 22

Who knows and who gives a toss mate...ha ha ha...nah the meaning of life has been asked by everyone from Soccy boy (Socrates) to Alberto (Albert Einstein)...and they all got it wrong.  There is only one meaning mate...waihine (women) and waipiro (alcohol)...so all you have to do is get pissed and make love and you will be a happy man!   Ha ha ha...on a more serious note however my friend...the meaning to life is the meaning you give to it.  Whatever it is that makes you happy.  So that is my whakaaro (thoughts) for what they are worth.

Answer 23

the meaning of life is

to give life meaning

Answer 24

To excel at everything you do. Not be the best....do your best.

Answer 25

for me

Life is like a dance

Sometimes we lead

Sometimes we follow

Don't matter about

what you didn't know

what's important is

WE LEARN AS WE GO!

that's my own definition of Life ..

hehe hope you appreciate it :)

xD

Answer 26

For me life is 1 big test.

Many trials.

Answer 27

42, read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Answer 28

Whoa, big question there.

But I think the meaning of life is to just be yourself. Don't mind what everyone else is thinking about you because you only have one chance to live & you sure don't want to waste it being someone you're not.

Think of it as a game. One of those create-your-own-life-games where you choose you clothes, house, friends, ect. Well, it's just like that only you can't save & start over. So make the most of it & try to experience everything you can't because you can't rewind.

:)

Or, at least, that's how I look at things.

Answer 29

Living life to your fullest, answers your life calling, and following your dreams and accomplshing them in the process of it all.

Answer 30

To enjoy the gift. You have a universe inside your head. explore it!  

Answer 31

42.

Or consult the Kabbalah.