What is the meaning of life?

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jcnofear

I love this questions under Mexico City,

cause en el DF you question it several times a day while youre stuck in traffic,

I havent found the answer yet, but I think its different for each one or else somebody wouldve told me

Whatever you want it to mean.

Human beings as they mature have a genetic code within that encourages them to search out meanings and to search out people of similiar beliefs. This promotes their genetic furthering of their own clans because nations that believe in one god versus atheist nations tend to prevail in battles, therefore, furthering their survival opportunities. Mono-thieist nations tend to triumph over mult-theist nations , and multi-theist over atheists.

So basically, there's no meaning really--it's just in our genetic coding to explore it. But, it makes a more fulfilling life for a human to pick a belief, preferably a single god, to satisfy that need to continue his or her species.

Know most of it all

To live and struggle to be happy, not struggle to survive.

saxmofone

To live the best you can, while you can, with what you have.

papa bear

im not sure there is a meaning,,,your born,you struggle through (life),,,then you die....

peanutz

Meaning of life is different for you or me. To each his own.

familyguy756

cheeeese!!!!

Pea

~Survival and temporal success~

...to accumulate wealth and increase social status
...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 live
...to protect one's family
...to gain and exercise power
...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction
...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 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 expand one's perception of the world

~Ethical~

...to express compassion
...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
...to give and receive love
...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
...to serve others, or do good deeds
...to work for justice and democracy

~Religious, spiritual and esoteric~

...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment and atonement
...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
...to become God, or God-like
...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God)
...to follow the "Golden Rule"
...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God

~Other~

...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 contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
...to die, or become a martyr
...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 protect humanity, or more generally the environment
...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny
...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others
...to seek and find beauty
...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
...to participate in the chain events which has led from the creation of the universe untill its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
...still some do not even think there is any purpose whatsoever (see nihilism)

Ray G

just love

Itellthetruth

go to a party at your neighbors and poop in the toilet but never flush.

Blah!

The answer is 42.

moosebreath

Biologically ... the meaning of life is to exist and to thrive. Milton Bradley calls it a game ! Theoretically ... it is what you make of it ! Phychologically it is the challenge of facing the world every day !

Dianne J

Death--without death, life would have no meaning. If you had no fear of losing what you value most, where would the meaning be?

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