What is the meaning of life?

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♥ Paulomi ♥	a way to see the world and then die. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Carly	procreation. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Huey from Ohio	The meaning of life is that you are alive, which is probably better than being dead on any day. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Hurricane	MUH! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Lord Grover	forty two Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

MrsMac	42 - according to Douglas Adams. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

owenmurdoch	42 Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

kool-K	The air you breath, troubles you face and all the joy and happiness in your spirit is Life ! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Mrs T	To live, be happy, and try not to hurt anyone along the way. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

set_sq	not to worry about the meaning of life. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Michael	42 Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

alismudge	To know that one day you will die Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Trollhair	Getting up every morning. Going to school or going to work. Finding love, having a family, making a go out of what talents you have and doing fun and unique things and not sitting at a computer or television more than 2 hours a day. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Faytus	42 Darn someone beat me to it! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

gym_princess80	love! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

wotatollie	always be open for new....? EXACTLY WHAT IT SAY'S life ...be alive the whole trip is more important than the achievements you make Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Laura R	No one knows the true meaning of life. One can say only God knows and will reveal it when our time comes. As for what I say... to bring a smile to anyone who needs one. respect all people and all living creatures. repect the world we live in.Give back what has been given to you 10 fold.Take care of your parents(or caregiver) as they did you. and finally..to accept that noone is perfect and trial and error is the human way. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

snake999	Watch Monty Python's "The Meaning of life" Its great Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

karthik k	life is the word with four spells but which we are worried about. life is a game. like snake and ladder. we learn many this how to live ,how to make our existence etc but take it easy and face the problems bold you will surely achieve your goal besides keep some hope on god. enjoy your life in pain and gain. have a good future Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

bearos3000	Whoa big question! This one has been argued over for quite a while so I don't know if we can answer this one. Personally I go by the description at the End of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. Something like: Try and be nice to people, read a good book every now and then and basically try and enjoy life. Well, either that or people aren't wearing enough hats. I think. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Thomas V	Self replication. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

pam	TO ENJOY YOUR SELF AND MEET NEW PEOPLE Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

taketwo	is to live and make babies. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

caroline1409f1	A film? Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

JKJ	LIFE IS A PENDULAM BETWEEN DEEP SORROW AND HAPPINESS. LIFE IS TO LIVE Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

avondrow	A state of change and activity peculiar to organic matter ...., oh who am I kidding, it's 42! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

kope k	Life is what you make of it! For extreme cases: Hitler left his country to go rule Germany and tried taking over the whole world and yet the current US government is ruled by a former C student. Anything is possible as long as you think it is. Michael Jackson proved that you can turn from a young promising handsome black man to a rich ugly and depressed white woman! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Snowth	It's nothing very special really. Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

c.weyman@btopenworld.com	Nature's way of keeping meat fresh - Dr Who (again) Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Jack @	the meaning is what you make it my friend Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

High Jack	The question "what is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "What is the nature of life (and of the universe in which we live)?", "What is the significance of life?", "What is valuable in life?", and "What is the purpose of, or in, (one's) life?". These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and arguments, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations. Popular beliefs "What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives, most in the context "What is the purpose of life?" Here are some of the many potential answers to this perplexing question: Survival and temporal success * ...to accumulate wealth and increase social status * ...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 compete or co-operate with others * ...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance * ...to die having succeeded in your purpose * ...to gain and exercise power * ...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book * ...to live * ...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction * ...to protect one's family * ...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny * ...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 expand one's perception of the world * ...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 understand creation Ethical * ...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context * ...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace * ...to achieve rebirth in the Pure Land * ...to become like God, or God-like * ...to be rewarded for your deeds * ...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God) * ...to express compassion * ...to follow the "Golden Rule" * ...to give and receive love * ...to live in a way that you don't harm yourself and don't harm your environment * ...to work for justice and freedom Religious and spiritual * ...to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell * ...to die and become a martyr * ...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia) * ...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity) * ...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment * ...to reach Heaven in the afterlife * ...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life * ...to serve others, or do good deeds * ...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment and atonement * ...to understand and follow the "Word of God" * ...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God * ...to disprove the existence of a or all all gods Other * ...to achieve self-actualisation * ...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me") * ...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 have fun * ...to participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe * ...to make the conformists' lives miserable (see non-conformism) * ...to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers) * ...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others * ...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced (see Buddhism) * ...to seek and find beauty * ...as there is no Intrinsic meaning to life, to each individual, the "meaning of life" is whatever he/she decides it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid. * ...an answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?" is that it is just simply being able to ask the question, "What is the meaning of life?" (see Sri Sri Ravi Shankar below) * ...a combination of any of the above. No purpose, and therefore... * ...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose) * ...just a series of events * ...just nature taking its course * ...the wheel of time keeps on turning * ...the cycle of life * ...whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception" * ...there is no purpose or meaning whatsoever (see nihilism) * ...who cares? Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No