What do you think is the meaning of life?
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There is much more to life than just living day to day. You are not on Earth by accident. There is a purpose for your mortal existence. Your life has a divine purpose. \n\nGod did not send you here without a plan. God, your Heavenly Father, has prepared a marvelous plan for your happiness. It is a plan of eternal salvation. When you realize that God has a plan for you, it is easier to understand why you are on this earth. God wants all of His children to progress and become more like Him. This time on Earth provides opportunities for you to grow and progress. Coming here allows you to: \n\nReceive a physical body. \nExercise agency and learn to choose between good and evil. \nLearn and gain experience that will help you become more like your Heavenly Father and develop divine attributes—like justice, mercy, and love. \n\nBy following our Heavenly Father’s plan, you—like all of His children—can someday return to live with Him and with your loved ones. His plan is designed to bring you, and all His children, greater peace in this life—no matter what its trials—and eternal joy in the life to come. To partake of His plan, Heavenly Father invites you to: \n\nCome to know and love Him and His Son, Jesus Christ. \nLearn to love others as He loves them. \nLearn to choose right over wrong. \nCommit yourself to Him through ordinances such as baptism. \n\nThere are so many voices telling us what to do and how to think that it’s easy to become confused. But your Heavenly Father has not left you to figure everything out alone. \nBy turning to God, you can find answers to your questions and meaning in your life’s experiences, no matter how difficult they may seem. \n\nYou can receive direction from your Heavenly Father in several ways: \n\nPrayer puts you in direct communication with God, who can reveal answers to you. \nThe scriptures contain truth as revealed through God’s prophets. Many people have found answers in the scriptures, and so can you. \nGod has also provided special witnesses in our time called apostles and prophets. Listening to them can give you direction for dealing with life’s challenges. \nGod is the ultimate source of truth. He will never lead you astray. He loves you, and He is anxious to help you as you turn to Him in faith.\n\nIf any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. (James 1:5)\nAsk, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: (Matthew 7:7)
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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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and what is the meaning of life
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the meaning of life is to ponder the meaning of life.  The catch is if we ever find out the meaning of life all life will end and be replaced by something even more complicated.
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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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Life has no meaning other than what you, the individual make of it. The answer is different for each individual.
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The meaning of life. It seems to be such a broad and unanswerable subject. But it's as simple as one scripture in the Bible.\nThis is found Ecclesiastes 12:13.\nSolomon was wise and extremely wealthy. He had it all and did it all, and that scripture is his comment on what the meaning of his life had come to be.\n\nFear God. Obey God's commandments*\nThat is my reason for living...getting to know God and his commandments, developing a wholesome fear of him (fear of displeasing him).\n\n*not just the 10 Commandments...the best way for us to obey His commandments is to examine how Jesus led his life and do our best to immitate that, as well as follow his council.
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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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Life is meaningless. We have to create meaning in order to have meaning. Life would be darn boring if there's no meaning.
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what's the real meaning of life?
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CHEESE!\n\nOr if you want a more philisophical answer:\n\n"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves. Some people believe that the meaning of life is:\n\n...to accumulate wealth \n...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context \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 be without question, or to keep asking questions \n...to become God, or God-like \n...to compete or co-operate with others \n...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me") \n...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance \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 express compassion \n...to find inner peace \n...to gain and exercise power \n...to give and receive love \n...to give life meaning (an example of antimetabole) \n...to learn and find enlightenment \n...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book \n...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia) \n...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction \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 acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life \n...to seek and find beauty \n...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally, financially, or spiritually \n...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate \n...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom \n...to serve others, or do good deeds \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 survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension) \n...to try to understand the meaning of life \n...to work for justice and democracy \n...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God \n...or some combination of the above
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I could give you almost 200 of them:\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result?p=what+is+the+meaning+of+life\n\nUpdate: Make that almost 300 now!
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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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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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The meaning of life is what you make of it. To some, it is merely existing. To others, it is "experiencing." The beauty of life is that each soul determines their own meaning for their own life. We spend so much of our time searching for like souls that find the same meaning in life that we do. Once found, often times we feel that is our soul mate for just that reason. Life does not actually have meaning until we give it such. So in essence.......Life determines life.
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I believe that the meaning of life is to give it your all. This is the only chance we will ever get. So make the most of it live life with no regrets. Make a difference. Be proud, be happy. Get out there and DO SOMETHING. For yourself and those deserving.