What is the meaning of life?

[Mithrandir]

See, and there is the difference I've mentioned before.
People confuse reasonfs for living with the meaning of living!

[Sarton]

The meaning of life is to live!

[Dagger]

Cue NGE line: "Maybe we exist to find out why we exist"

[Lee aka Isaldur]

A friend told me that the reason of life is to make new life... I agree with him on a certain level. The question cannot be answered because no one will ever know - or are ever meant to know. I mean, if we did know, do you think it will change the world? For good, or for bad...

[Blood-Ryu]

I believe the meaning of life means more than living. It also means death. We die sometime or another. However, my scepticism of death means more than just dieing. Most people believe in reincarnation...well, I don't. Why would you want to live another life of pain? Of misery and suffering? I don't. One life is more than enough for me...so I strongly believe that when you die, you..."live" your strongest desire.

  But that also defies the fact that I don't believe in reincarnation. You must obviously be reborn in order to experience that desire.

  Back to the subject at hand lol... I agree with Dark Teddy...in order for any organism to survive is for them to breed. So, to some extent, I do believe that the meaning of life is to give life.

[Legebriril]

Well, this is how I see things:
Life has no meaning, it doesn't need or require one. We are on this Earth purely for the reason to reproduce as out parents did, we are around to ensure the success of the species, to carry the genes on.
There is no reincarnation because no body remembers before they were born, so why should it exist after we die.
I would hate to sound harsh, but the things people are saying are what they want rather than what happens.
There is nothing after death, we cease to exist, therefore there is nothing to be scared of because, there is nothing.
The point is, we are not Gods as we know them, we don't move oceans and such like. We are on the Earth, that is the end of it, there is no because. Have you ever had your science teacher say to you because it is when you go into something so infinitely complicated and meaningful that it loses meaning and there is no longer and why it happens, just that it does happen, and you have to accept it. It is the same with life; There is no meaning of, we just are, and that is something that we should all come to terms with.
The things people are saying here are personal motives about self-satisfaction and so forth, nothing to do with meanings.
Technology does not affect our "meaning" for it is only an evolutionary advance.
If we were being controlled by some Gods, we would know about it.
And the Universe doesn't revolve around us, we are not the only life, we just haven't found it yet, there is quite likely to be a more advanced race than us out there, somewhere, but until then, we are alone, in a big black space.

To sum this all up:

• We are here because we are.
• We are born, we live, we die

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I know this post is from a while ago but that is basically exactly the same as what i think...humans want to believe that we are all here for some reason and that we are special in some way but i think that we arent...weve just evolved form a couple of cells of something thousands of years ago. One thing im not sure about is what happens when you die, i believe a little bit that in some way your soul lives on but not that ure 'next life' is decided by what you do in this life or that you go to heaven or hell, but maybe your soul lives on in another plane of existence...mostly though i believe that it is just like before you are born, you are aware of nothing because you dont exist and there is nothing...

[Sarton]

uh...The meaning of life is to find your own purpose in this life. Maybe the meaning of life is love. Maybe it isn't. Maybe it's to give life. Maybe it isn't. We each have to find out for ourselves.

[God(Aka; Juggalette chik)]

lol but wouldnt that be what life is rather than the meaning to it? Were kinda talking about the point to it or something in a way...

But the meaning of the word life was of or realated to animate being.

[Mithrandir]

~Bangs head against a wall resulting in a trip to the hospital...~

I thought we solved this little mystery! I thought we said that life doesn't have a meaning, and further more it doesn't need one. People can see what they want to get out of life, but no one here has states the meanings, only the happens of life, the facts of life, and the reasons for living.
It seems to me we're pretty incapabe of finding a meaning of life anyway, perhaps it is beyond us humans to expect to know one.
So I'll just stick with my life-has-no-meaning-it-doesn't-need-one theory, and you lot can think whatever you like.
But at the end of the day, because we are all independant life forces, and we all live independant lives, surely the meaning of life is individual dependant. i.e. It relates to who you are, and what you want it to be.
And ultimately you do end up as a nutient for plants and worms. Remember "Earth is Earth is Earth" we are all part of the same thing, and you yourselves are made up of previous human fertilisers and dead animals and space stuff. It's not an encouraging thought so you may want to foget I wrote it lol.

 :)Mith

[Arwen]

I personally believe in that 'life' doesn't end when we pass from this materialistic world.  I think the time we spend here, all the things we experience, all the things we learn, are a test for what happens beyond.  The meaning or point of life is to be prepared for when we pass onto something greater, something that doesn't depend on material.

[snow]

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more
bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-Douglas Adams

oki maybe someone alredy posted it but...
im not sure at all what teh meaning is but im in to the theory that you have to find your own meaning with your life, what is meaningful to you.
what the purpose of life in general... well.. do there have to be a meaning?    
eff.. i dont know i jsut get confused really...

[sadie mariee]

2 be Gods children.


its simple

[Dagger]

2 be Gods children.


its simple

Then why, I wonder, is life so hard?

[God(Aka; Juggalette chik)]

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[Dwalin]

Without going into any deep philosophy, this debate just seems to be going round and round in circles.

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