You sir, speak truths.

The meaning of life is looking for a good video game.

There is no meaning of life. We are all just bags of chemicals that developed by chance.

But that doesn't stop me finding my own meaning in life. I want to die feeling fulfilled; that I accomplished something, and that I loved and was loved.

I found out the meaning of life, the universe and everything just a couple of days ago and I thought it was brilliant. Bad thing is I forgot. (It was not 42.)

Well, I believe that the meaning of life is a personal relationship with God, and populating the earth.

The reason for life? I dont find that question nearly as full of wonder as "what is the meaning of existence?"
even without life, he universe would be here. True there would e no one to experience it. But it would be there. Why is any of it there and at the same time, how could there be absolutely nothing?

C. S. Lewis

Eat good food, drink good wine, meet great people, travel to wonderful places, never feel safe.

To Live, to Laugh and to Love.

If you're not religious and without faith, it is quite hard to find meaning in life. When you look at it scientifically, we're all just organisms on a rock floating along the bottom of an endless ocean. No one is watching us, there is no grand scheme, and we are entirely insignificant in the eyes of the universe. Nothing anyone ever does on this planet will ever amount to anything and eventually, all we know will come to an end. This is why it's so hard for people to denounce their beliefs. It's too much to take in for the average person. Listen to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ. It's a very sad notion but I believe we must all accept it to truly love our lives. Once we know there is no answer, we can move on and try to enjoy the short time we have here to it's fullest.

I, myself, take it day by day and whatever I desire, I work to achieve. At the moment I'm in a bit of a slump, just waiting for things to happen. Like the release of a certain Bethesda videogame in November. As you can tell from the majority of my posts here, this makes me irritable.

However, I'm also working on getting into college by this Fall quite diligently. Anyway, I find that if I do as much good as I can from the moment I wake up to the moment I fall asleep, it gives me happiness. Imagine that? Spreading my joy and making others feel good gives me happiness. When I fail to achieve this simple goal (happens a lot), situations always feel like less than half as good as they could have been.

Another thing I do that helps me get by is preserve life in whatever form it comes. From not eating any kind of animal to carrying the occasional spider back outside instead of smashing it against my tile floor. I think most people get along fine doing these things because they are not aware of the pain they're causing but it instills too much guilt in me for my heart to be at peace so I treat everything with compassion.

Well, I hope what I've said has helped you OP and I'll leave you with this:

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song."

To live our lives along the path which will make us happiest in life.

Good posts here.To me the meaning of life is to survive.As an individual, family, or civilization.All we know is that we exist, and that we have an instinct to survive, endure and procreate.The rest of our time should be spent having as much fun as possible.I believe there is an important reason that laughter happens.Its like a coping mechanism.

Its nearly seven a.m so I cant think of a better way to explain myself.I can tell you that the meaning of this very moment is to sleep.

Skyrim

Life is something you cannot describe. Think of it as a place to do whatever you wish with the body and mind you have been given and suffer the consequences for it.

A wise man called Ali G once said 'Innit' I think this quote is relevant here.

It is what you make of it... simple enough.

The meaning of my life is to enjoy the time I have and live as long as I possibly can, to encourage those who are persecuted to attain the same level of freedoms I have, and avoid as many goofy superstitions as possible.

The meaning of my life is my krisi.

c minor!

There is no meaning of life beyond reproduction, evolution, and death. There is no God, and we're no more special than all the other countless lifeforms populating the Universe.

How to put this..

Think of a http://greenlightsignsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/AppletonTrophy_340x255.jpg. They cycle through a message every couple of minutes, and if you're passing by you only get a little bit of the message.

Now think of every living thing on the planet -yes, you too, as one of those scrolling marque message boards, broadcasting our own messages continually around us to everything that is within shouting/visual/smelling distance.

Now look at how we, and the other living things on the planet take heed and notice of everything else around us, as either a positive or negative message to follow in life.

We see a person displaying a message of personal success and we take it on board as a role model to emulate, in the hope of reproducing some of the perceived success within the future of our own existence, or we see a person displaying a message of personal failure or mishap, and we remind ourselves 'but for the grace of God there go I', and try to heed ourselves from ending up in similar situations. As we take all of this on board throughout our lives, it forms the message that we then in return broadcast outwardly to others.

In the animal world I think this falls under instinct. In the plant and germ world it's evolution...



/2ct after thinking about this since the first post. But then hey, what do I know? :shrug:










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edit: and then Veeno came with a really, long rebuttal... :whistling:

Life is the pre-condition for meaning to exist. Meaning is a product of consciousness, and thus a product of life. Life requires no meaning; life causes meaning.

Search for the meaning of life is just a temporary construct of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without any meaning or purpose.

I don't think humanity has a meaning that we would be able to understand, but we do have a duty.

The goals I think we all more or less subconsciously set are: Reproduce, Leave our mark on the world, and Be remembered, in that order.