Whats like, the meaning of life?

Question

Whats like, the meaning of life?

Answer 1

well, scientifically, one meaning is reproduction.

Answer 2

If you read a few more answers too a few more questions, you would know that you are number 1 589  that has asked the same question in the last 3 months.  The answer is: "Whatever YOU make of it. Totally up to you, the purpose of YOUR life."

Peace.

Answer 3

everyone has a different purpose

a different meaning

i spose you need to find yours

:)

Answer 4

Like, that question cannot be answered on Y!A because it's something you find out on your own. No one here can answer that for you.  

Answer 5

It's intentionally mysterious, y'know?  It's chaos--it's clocks and watermelons.

Answer 6

Lottery.

Answer 7

As someone else has pointed out you are number 89898989 asking this question (comes up at least twice a week). So maybe that is the definitive answer: The Eternal Search IS the MEANING of life!!! Eureka....

Answer 8

There is no one set "meaning of life". Every individual has their own ideas and ideals about what the meaning of life is. No one person, even a great philosopher, could answer that question for you. You'd have to discover that through experiences that occur in life, choices you make, and events that take place. You're meaning of life might revolve around having dreams and goals and accomplishing them, while one others could be the values of love and happiness.

So, what can you do to find the meaning of life? Well, it does help if you've read a little philosophy, because that can help guide you in your quest. But, my advice is find the things that you believe you couldn't live without, or if you had to, would not want to

I hope you find your "meaning of life"!

Answer 9

the meaning of life? its an interesting question. Ages a go i read something that answered kinda like this: finding out would ruin what our purpose is here. for example, if the meaning of life was to make dumplings, we would make dumplings every single day, and that would be boring. but the fact that we dont know it means that we are able to explore more about life, and get the best out of it. i think this is the optimistic view

i personally believe that we have no purpose, or at least our 'meanings' all differ because everyone's life is different, look at the world we live in, i can honestly say its a depressing one. theres people who are extremely rich(although this depends who you are) and there are those in the opposite end of the spectrum. the fact that we all live such different lives makes this question impossible to answer, for now anyways  

Answer 10

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

"The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and WIlcock,

"Freakonomics," S. Levitt,

"West with the Night," Beryl Markham,

"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck,

"Extraordinary Knowing," Dr. Elizabeth Mayer,

"The True Story of the Bilderberger Group," Daniel Estulin, and "The Great Divorce," C. S. Lewis, offer some good insights and answers.

Answer 11

Like, 42

Answer 12

Life is a challenge-Meet it, Life is a game-Play it, Life is Love-Share it-Saibaba.

Answer 13

Wow.  Loaded questions require much ammo.  Here is yours.

There is no meaning of life.  It is all in its own interpretation.  Take Ghandi vs Jeffrey Dahmer.  Interpretation.

Me?  Better to burn out than to fade away, yet, family is everything.  Balance at its perfection.

Take care,

Answer 14

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 15

When you go to school or college, you have a clearly defined syllabus and a time table. On successful completion you have passed.

Same thing in life. But one problem, we are not able to locate the syllabus :)

So first locate the syllabus, how? use your mind in a positive way and you will have the answers.

Like they say, that's life huh?