What is the meaning of life?
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42.\n(Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
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life (līf) pronunciation\nn., pl. lives (līvz).\n\n   1.\n         1. The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.\n         2. The characteristic state or condition of a living organism.\n   2. Living organisms considered as a group: plant life; marine life.\n   3. A living being, especially a person: an earthquake that claimed hundreds of lives.\n   4. The physical, mental, and spiritual experiences that constitute existence: the artistic life of a writer.\n   5.\n         1. The interval of time between birth and death: She led a good, long life.\n         2. The interval of time between one's birth and the present: has had hay fever all his life.\n         3. A particular segment of one's life: my adolescent life.\n         4. The period from an occurrence until death: elected for life; paralyzed for life.\n         5. Slang. A sentence of imprisonment lasting till death.\n   6. The time for which something exists or functions: the useful life of a car.\n   7. A spiritual state regarded as a transcending of corporeal death.\n   8. An account of a person's life; a biography.\n   9. Human existence, relationships, or activity in general: real life; everyday life.\n  10.\n         1. A manner of living: led a hard life.\n         2. A specific, characteristic manner of existence. Used of inanimate objects: “Great institutions seem to have a life of their own, independent of those who run them” (New Republic).\n         3. The activities and interests of a particular area or realm: musical life in New York.\n  11.\n         1. A source of vitality; an animating force: She's the life of the show.\n         2. Liveliness or vitality; animation: a face that is full of life.\n  12.\n         1. Something that actually exists regarded as a subject for an artist: painted from life.\n         2. Actual environment or reality; nature.\n\nadj.\n\n   1. Of or relating to animate existence; involved in or necessary for living: life processes.\n   2. Continuing for a lifetime; lifelong: life partner; life imprisonment.\n   3. Using a living model as a subject for an artist: a life sculpture.
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because we have to.  Its part of life...In my personal opinion, the meaning of life is find happiness.  Nothing is better than love, NOTHING.  However, love being as great as it is, also hurts the most when it fails.  Im not sure if true love exists, but its worth looking for.  If you havent loved, then you havent lived.
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Life is being or existing in a constant state of mind and body.  The purpose of life varies based upon beliefs.  To some it is to be judged, to others it is to become one with the world, and for others life has no purpose, they exist and do the best they can.
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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.
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Answer is available in this link..\n\nhttp://www.squidoo.com/life_meaning/
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there is no definitive answer. If you type Meaning Of Life in the Q and A search box to the left you'll see that it's been asked quite a few times--maybe a suitable answer is in there somewhere. It took me a while to figure out why some people answered 42 to this question. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything  or http://www.themeaningoflife.org/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_of_life almost forgot my favorite meaning of life by Monty Phyton http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085959/ If you ever do find the true Meaning of Life please let me know. Thanks
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http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=Akfr80MntBhXsBS9XjJMd2QezKIX?p=meaning+of+life
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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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You are basically asking what the meaning of life is.  I believe that we all have a purpose here.  The hard part is chosing the right path to follow in order to get where we are destined to be.
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To me life is how you make it. As humans we only know so far that we have one life. Ever day i choose to get even when the previous day was horrible. With all the bad things that have happened to me a my young age i am greatful for my life. Life is complicated yet it is simple. It is the good and the bad times. It is the decison that you make to get up to breathe to even eat. Life is all that we see, hear, think, smell, etc. It is all. Life has no meaning it is to me a defintaion to all other things.
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its has nothing to do with science.\ni strongly believe that the meaning of life is to be happy and fing joy: to be born, to love your parents ,to learn as much as you can about all sorts of stuff, to marry and have children, cause you will never really feel complete happiness until you have a family of your own. and while you are living, do good to others so that your life has meaning. i believe thats what life is all about, cause i dont think its so that you can be miserable and dumb and walk the world with cares about what happens to the person next to you.
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In my humble opinion, the meaning of life is whatever it means to the person.  Life can feel like a series of obstacles, one calamity after another.  Life can be one experience after another and how our reactions to those experiences make us feel about the quality or quantity of our life.  Are there a lot of friendships and relationships in our lives?  What is our reaction to what we ourselves choose to do in our lives?  Are we regretting the things we have done or are we regretting things undone?  The meaning of life is different for each person.\n\nTo me it comes down to making my own peace with myself and my Creator, Whoever or Whatever that means to me.  Each person makes their own way through life the best way they can with whatever they brought with them on this journey called life and I wish them all the best.
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http://www.answers.com/topic/meaning-of-life?method=22\n\n\nWhat 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 protect one's family, no matter the cost \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 explore, to expand beyond our frontiers \n...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes \n...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom \n...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life \n...to experience anything if not something in this world \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 \nReligious, spiritual and esoteric\n\n...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context \n...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace \n...to become God, or God-like \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 follow the "Golden Rule" \n...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity) \n...to reach Heaven in the afterlife \n...to understand and follow the "Word of God" \n...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God \nOther\n\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 contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me") \n...to die, or become a martyr \n...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general \n...to live, and enjoy the passage of time \n...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment \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) \n...still some do not even think there is any purpose whatsoever
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The meaning of life is the process of figuring out what you're going to do with it. Then, when you've nearly done it, figuring out what exactly you did...and why.
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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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To find the meaning of life.