What do you think the meaning of life is?

What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives. Some people believe that the meaning of life is one or more of the following:

Survival and temporal success

...to accumulate wealth and increase social status

...to compete or co-operate with others

...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance

...to protect one's family, no matter the cost

...to gain and exercise power

...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book

...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction

...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially

...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate

...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)

Wisdom and knowledge

...to be without question, or to keep asking questions

...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers

...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes

...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom

...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life

...to experience anything if not something in this world

Ethical

...to express compassion

...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)

...to give and receive love

...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life

...to serve others, or do good deeds

...to work for justice and democracy

Religious, spiritual and esoteric

...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context

...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace

...to become God, or God-like

...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God)

...to follow the "Golden Rule"

...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)

...to reach Heaven in the afterlife

...to understand and follow the "Word of God"

...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God

Other

...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race

...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human

...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")

...to die, or become a martyr

...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 live, and enjoy the passage of time

...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment

...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny

...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others

...to seek and find beauty

...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)

...still some do not even think there is any purpose whatsoever

Monster, the meaning of life is to live it as well as you can, to first do no harm and then to do onto others what you know is noble and kind. Think if a fight or pain in the butt is worth it five years from now. Also, live every day like it's the very end. Life is so short man. Cool surfin'

If you are religious, your religion likely offers answers to the "meaning of life" Depending on the religion, it is a prepatory state for an "afterlife".

Generally, people construct their lives to give them purpose and fulfillment of one kind or other. For some, it is giving birth and raising families. For some, it is achieving success in one form or other.

It is part of the human condition to continually seek answers to life's meaning. We can also drive ourselves crazy if we dwell on it too much.

My philosophy is not particularly religious but it is simply...Live Life Well. Make each day count in one way or other. Always have things to look forward to; always be in the process of learning and always surround yourself with positive people.

I am also confused as to why we were given life because to me there is no one to tell us. People who swear that they know are just popping off at the mouth. So I would really say that life is what you make of it. Be it good, bad, happy, sad, fun, boring, or just confusing. So my advice to you is live your life and hopefully you will gain enough experience to get the understanding you seek and the answers you deserve.

Reproduce. Create. This is true biologically and for all species. But with humanity it has a higher significance, as well. We can paint, write music, design a car, make plans... as well as babies. But the highest calling/meaning probably still has to do with creating life, or sharing our lives with others like ourselves.

The meaning of life is simpl: LIVE IT and in the course of doing so may you find ways to improve the quality of life for yourself and others. Man did not evolve ( or was not placed here ) to suffer. We bring it on ourselves. Not only should we improve our quality of life, we should improve the status of life in general, for all living things to include the earth we live on as well.

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Meaning implies a controller's reason. As an atheist I have to believe there is no meaning to anything, aside from meanings we impose, including life.

Enjoying life, enjoying people, learning through your mistakes, fresh air excercise, GOD and the Bible, goooood foooood, family/friends

life means joy

life means fun

life means happiness

life means love

life means affection

life means sad

life means up and down

life means change

life means courage

life means struggle

life means challenge

life means problem

life means new idea

life means path

life means race

life means to win

life means to loose

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