ummm does anyone no the meaning of life?
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Salt is right...although it is not the answer, but the question that is important!\n\nTake her advice...read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and vote her for best answer)
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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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The meaning of life is different for everyone.  You should know, however, that discovering a religion is not mandatory - nor is it the basis for searching for the meaning of life.  For some people it is finding peace, for others it is becoming the best they can be.  It varies so much because each person is so different.  This question often goes unanswered in life to those who passively seek a solution to it.\n\nI always thought that the meaning of life was to live it fully ... I am not religious, and am not looking for a religion, but I'm happy and I think that's what the meaning of life is for me.  Living each day to the fullest.\n\nIf I had to venture a guess for most of the world - I would say the meaning of life is to have loved, and been loved as much as humanly possible with no strings attached.  True love.  That's what we're here for.
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our friggin human brains are not capable of understanding nothing.  We are constantly searching for a meaning.  There is no meaning.
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Life – it has a meaning and loving purpose - you just have to find your purpose and live it.\n\nI believe every person is here for a definite purpose. Each person is special and valuable; that refers to me, you, your family, friends, in fact everybody! There is a loving plan for each of our lives here on earth and there is no such thing as coincidence. I don't believe that anything in life happens by chance and that every aspect of our lives points to something deeper.\n\nAs human beings, we all ask the question: Who am I? Who am I meant to become? What is my value or destiny as a human being? Who will become for me the model of my humanity? Pope John Paul II told us that ultimately JESUS CHRIST IS THE ANSWER to these questions. Christ is the living blueprint and pattern for our humanity. Jesus Christ reveals our meaning to us.\n\nThus Pope John Paul II, quoting Vatican II in his Redeemer of the Human Race, wrote: "Christ...fully reveals man to himself and brings to light his most high calling." "In Christ and through Christ," the pope added, all are enabled to come to "full awareness of their dignity...and of the meaning of their existence."\n\nYou need to decide now to live for God rather than for yourself. You spend your life on Earth preparing yourself (as best you can) for death. I don't see death as a scary, negative experience, but birth into a bliss filled eternal life with God. I believe that this is something you have to consciously choose or not during your life on earth. \n\nThe meaning of life is for us to discover that we are true children of an infinitely loving and merciful God, to find out what our responsibilities are to our Creator, and to fulfill those responsibilities. Each of us is called to affirm, accept and develop the talents God has given us.
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To give life.\n\nThe Meaning of Life is the answer to this question:\n\nGod, what is Your purpose of Existence?\n\nFor God's purpose of Existence itself defines the purpose of all that exists.\n\nI asked God that question...\n\nGod answered, "My purpose of Existence is To give life. Since you are made in My image after My likeness, then YOUR purpose of existence is to give life."\n\nEverything that exists is an expression of God's thinking; thus, everything reflects God's thinking.\n\nGod gives life by His unique existence, and receives life when He gives life. All of existence gives life by its unique existence to that which receives life from its unique existence. This is Nature - the union of all living (eternal) things.\n\nYou are here to give life by your unique existence to that which receives life from your unique existence. So do what you love that nourishes those who love what you love.\n\nThis is your purpose.
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Here it is folks today's version of "what is the purpose of Life"... I just knew we would get through the day without one.. \nSorry about the tirade...\nOk, The meaning of life is... Drum roll....\n\nEnough being silly..  There is nothing anywhere more important than love. So the meaning of life is to Love and to be loved...   Jim
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and what is the meaning of life
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You generate your own meaning. You have to decide what the meaning of your life will be. For many it is just to keep living. Period.
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What is the meaning of life? I like to know everyone's opinion on that.
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hate to be the one to tell you , but you wont find the meaning of life here, and no one will be able to tell you what it is either.  the meaning of life is different to each person, so what may be your best friends meaning of life, may not be yours, you have to figure that one out on your own.
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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 discover and 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 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 give life meaning (an example of antimetabole, though this has little impact on its accuracy) \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 live and enjoy the passage of time \n...to own a megaphone
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There is no meaning to life. You evolved from single cell organism by accident.
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To find the meaning of life.
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what is the meaning of life?!?
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The meaning of life is to live it.
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Answer is available in this link..\n\nhttp://www.squidoo.com/life_meaning/