what is the meaning of life?
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"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:\n\nSurvival and temporal success\n\n...to accumulate wealth and increase social status \n...to compete or co-operate with others \n...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance \n...to gain and exercise power \n...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book \n...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction \n...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially \n...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate \n...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension) \nWisdom and knowledge\n\n...to be without question, or to keep asking questions \n...to learn from one's own and others mistakes \n...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom \n...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers \n...to try to understand the meaning of life \nEthical\n\n...to express compassion \n...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia) \n...to give and receive love \n...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life \n...to serve others, or do good deeds \n...to work for justice and democracy \nEsoteric/Other\n\n...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context \n...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace \n...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race \n...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human \n...to become God, or God-like \n...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me") \n...to die, or become a martyr \n...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God) \n...to give life meaning (an example of antimetabole) \n...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity) \n...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny \n...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others \n...to seek and find beauty \n...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose, existence has no meaning beyond which one chooses to give it) \n...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God \n...to have a purpose
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life n. (pl. lives pr. -vz). 1. State of functional activity and continual change peculiar to organised matter, and esp. to the portion of it constituting an animal or plant before death, animate existence, being alive; etc. etc.
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the meaning of life is to work sleep love the people your with and be happy if your not there is no meaning to life your just alive. peroid...
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There is NO meaning of life. \n\nThis is a tipycal 'human' question, with a religious, metaphysical or morale sign. \n\nlet's take, for example, the answers given until now: \n\n- "The meaning of life is to be able to say at the end that the world is better off for your having been part of it."\nHow do define "better"??? Do you think some presidents don't think they are doing all they can to make this world a better (safer) place? Even when these people are destroying the planet, they believe, based on their values, they are doing something good (well, it is definitely good for their vice-presidents, but that's another story). Also, who do you think you are to determine if the world is a better place just because you passed by it? Our lives (average 75 years) are less than a second if put into perspective with the Earth's age... we are less relevant than a mosquito (individually, because as a group, humans are going to destroy the planet, which is also irrelevant, because there's no 'superior' being that would care about humans disappearing --as nobody cared when the dodos (a bird) disappeared).\n\n- "Well with most species it is to live to reproduce and continue your species... But I don't think that's what God has in mind." \nOf course this answer is ironical (good) when mentioning god, but also establishes that the meaning of life is to reproduce... While you can find a lot of pleasure in the process, defining it as the "meaning" shows you have the intention of finding a "plan" or a "mission"... and I think this is a metaphysical approach. But I tend to find the fight for food and reproduction as the main motors of everything that is alive (not the meaning of life, though).\n\n- "in a religious way, to pray for God..."\nNo comments. Obviously a human/intellectual/metaphysical approach to the question. God is an intellectual invention of men. \n\nsince men are conscious animals, they have the magical thinking that there must be a reason to be here. There is no 'reason'. If you think there is one, you would be accepting that there is a 'meaning', and then you would be having a religious position.\n\n- best answer for me: 42. This was Monty Python, right? hillarious!\n\nwhat do I know?
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42 for the woodchuck thing but on the meaning of life, there is no certain meaning of life. it can be anyhting that you choose it to be, whether it is someone you life and your life was designed to be spent with this person. or maybe a certain talent you are good at and your life is purposed to perfect this skill. No one apart from you chooses your meaning of existence. As you get older you will get closer and closer to discovering why you were put on this Earth.
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the meaning of life ...thats u must believe in ONE GOD/ALLAH\nand be close to him .\n\nand do all the good things for ur self and others and the life ... and sure show RESPECT FOR ALL what ever their believes .\n\nGod/Allah bless you
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The meaning of life is quite simply to find your love and be with that person. Everything else revolves around money and money is the source of most evils in this world.\n\nBut seriously, why spend your life preparing yourself for death and the afterlife? Why not worry about that after you die, when you have eternity to do so?
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you mean what is the meaning of life on earth?  what is our purpose? who knows, and why does it matter anyway?  \n\nIt's nice to ponder on such things, but we don't actually NEED all the answers in life to live a fulfilling happy existence anyway.
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the meaning of life is to live, love and enjoy it; even in struggle.
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Creation! The meaning of life is what you make of it. The universe is what is there for you to discover. and everithing is what you live for. put them together and the answer is the same: CREATION
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The meaning of life is to be and be you and be stiving towards the noblest of goals and to be in attainment of it and posses it, all the while remaining blameless.
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To find the meaning of life.
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There isn't a true meaning of life, any more than there is a true meaning of rocks, or a true meaning of gravity.\n\nThis is not the same thing as saying life is pointless or worthless. It's what you aim for that counts - as the saying goes, shoot for the moon, and even if you miss you reach the stars. You have to agree with yourself which aims make sense, where you want to go - nobody can do this for you, they won't be the right ones. For me, coming to terms with the fact I can't do everything was the first step towards realising I can do something. \n\nMay you work out what your own personal something is, and exceed it!
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This question has been asked 194 times before. Probably explains the lack of answers. You can check out what the answers to previous questions were using the link below.\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AvBHkC0IQ1pNE5kZDHWNGAcezKIX?p=%22what+is+the+meaning+of+life%22
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the real meaning of life is happiness and joy.\ngod put us here not for nothing- to create the world we live in, hopefully it will be peaceful and beautiful.