You are partly correct. Philosophy was and is about asking questions about...LIFE. From this pursuit of answers all other sciences are derived.

EDIT: Sorry for the double post

Everyone's definition of the "meaning of life" differs. To me, the meaning of life is to enjoy it as much as I can before it's all over. To others it's about helping others or leaving a legacy behind. There's no single meaning to life, it's whatever you want it to be.

EDIT: To get slightly more cynical, there is no meaning to existance. Human life is just a random result of evolution, there's no greater meaning behind it, we exist, that's it.

I'm not going to go any deeper on that subject because it'll defiantely get religious.

Why can't it be all of those, and all of the things you hate and more?

;)

To survive. Possibly to become omnipotent, but I won't go there.

In my opinion, I think the OP's view on the "meaning of life", is confused with such things as goals and aspirations.

You can say, "The meaning of my life is to pursue my fishing career", but is that actually meaningful? To yourself, possibly. On a wider scale, possibly not.

In a way, I guess he is right. We make our own meaning. But to other people, our meaning, is meaningless to them.

Assigning a greater meaning to life is logically impossible. Each person can assign a "meaning" to his or her life, but nothing will ever actually have "meaning". To any meaning, you can ask "but what is the point of that?", and continue for every answer given.

Then perhaps it is to ask questions. They seem endless enough. hahaha

That, I think, is an excellent meaning to assign to life. Though, in the end, your questions and their answers will not mean anything either.

Maybe when one is at the beginning looking forward, but not so when one is at the end, looking back.

The purpose of life, is to live it. And I make a serious distinction between having a life, and just existing.

That's my point.

All animals exist solely for the purpose of reproducing and passing on their genes. From the moment an animal is born to the day it dies, the only thing it was meant to do is reproduce, and it never thought that there was something more to life. But we humans are different from other animals in that we are sapient. Unlike the animal that spends it's whole life eating, moving around and reproducing, we have the ability to set our own goals for what we want to do with our lives. It's true that, like other animals, we really only exist to reproduce, but unlike other animals, we can make a conscious decision to live our life the way we want. We can refuse to reproduce if we want to, something that no other animal can do. In my opinion, for humans, the meaning of life is whatever you want it to be. We have the free will to set our own path.

Perhaps the meaning of life is that there cant not be a meaning of life.

I mean it's not like it will ever end, and all those meanings combine to form a super meaning?

Hahaha.

End of thread. What part of my instruction for no discussion of religion did you not understand?