What is the meaning of life?

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

To me, it is to surpass our limitations and break away from our weaknesses. To overcome not just our personal shortcomings but the ones that plague all of us.

What do you believe the meaning of life is?

 

[Cuck Norris]

42.

 

[AnOminous]

There isn't one.

 

[chimpburgers]

To me, it's all about Julay.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

Reproduction

 

[Strelok]

To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

 

[Silver]

To live it.

 

[Kazami Yuuka]

It is whatever you choose to make it. We will all die anyways.

 

[Too Many Crooks]

To make your own meaning.

 

[Cosmos]

I firmly believe that the meaning of life is trying to positively impact the world before you have to leave it. It can be as big as finding a cure for cancer or as simple as being kind to others and raising them up instead of bringing them down.

It's a bit sappy, but I've always been sort of an idealist.

 

[DrJoshii]

Biologically our purpose is to pass on our genes.

 

[AnOminous]

Biologically our purpose is to pass on our genes.

That's not a purpose because it arose out of no intention.

 

[vertexwindi]

"What is the meaning to life" is a dumb question because it assumes that everyone thinks of life in the exact same way while it actually holds a different meaning to everyone on the planet and thus there will never be an universally accepted answer to that question. The closest you will probably get to an actual answer is "whatever you make of it".

Badabing badaboom. English lit class at work.

 

[Ravenor]

There isn't one, there is no underlying meaning to existence there is only a cold unfeeling and uncaring universe in which we live out our finite existence.

We can give our lives meaning, we can love and be loved by others, live our lives in such a way that we cause more good than bad in the short time we have but even then one day our names and deeds will fade into obscurity, our faces will fade from the last photograph, we wont even be a memory. But the universe will not note our passing it wont check our name on a list that we have fulfilled some form of arbitrary accomplishment or got some form of great cosmic joke, what we can do is just be the best person we can and just try and be significant to at least one person so we don't end our existence lonely and afraid of what's coming next.

 

[Cave]

The meaning of life, according to Aristotle, is to fulfill a function. What is that function? Being human. Qualitatively, what separates man from other species is his reason and ability to reason. So, in order to fulfill our function, we must reason and be able to reason well.

Why do we do this? The end goal is to become happy.

By fulfilling this function, we will be on the path to achieve what all men want: happiness.

Happiness is a lifetime goal. It's a lifetime process. It won't and cannot be achieved during life (maybe) and so the real pleasure is in the distraction. The journey provides us with an ever-increasing context. As we learn more, we understand more and we can discuss more. It genuinely feels good to be a good thinker.

Plato, I think, also followed this sort of thought. The path to happiness is knowledge.

In short, the meaning of life--as I see it--is to fulfill the function of being human.

 

[Connor Bible]

As an existentialist, I am of the opinion that existence really has no meaning beyond what we ascribe to it. It's a blank canvas that we add our colors and brush strokes to.

 

[Abethedemon]

To attain the highest score so we can appear on the leaderboards

 

[Have a Pepsi]

I believe that because there is no meaning, the best thing to do is to get as much pleasure as you can out of your life and maybe help a few others get there, too.

 

[Derbydollar]

To live as nature shaped us. Some of the beauty in humanity lies with it's relative existence!
For me, that means standing steadfast for personal liberties and pursuing the well being of myself and the people I love, it means molding the world into the image I desire.

We're all islands in a flowing river, being chipped away slowly- Just to be redeposited in chunks downstream. Each island with it's own flavor, it's own flora and fauna.
No island defines another, though they may eventually bridge...
Wow, I got a little flowery there.

 

[Jaimas]

What is the meaning of life?

Answer: None.

This is not a bad thing. Bereft of meaning, we are free to come up with our own.

There is something awesome in that.