What Is the Meaning of Life?

I can't take the answer that there is no meaning to life.
If there is none then why do we live at all.

I think each person has their own personal meaning. Someone might be here for the purpose of furthering some sort of research, someone might be here just to be in the life of one other person. If that makes any sense whatsoever.

Haha, I don't think I could really define anyone else's meaning of life (much less my own), but as my biology teacher says, "The purpose of life is to reproduce generations of offspring." It's her fault I'm far more negative than I used to be...

I think it's up for interpretation.
My personal interpretation is to do good in the world; to leave an impact. A huge chain reaction of people passing on the good faith to make others lives better (just as previous others have made their lives better)

Well, naturally, I'd say "Only God knows that".
But as a humanist, I must refer all such questions to a poem, Mars Is Out by Kotaro Takamura. [http://sherp.relline.ru/jphome/poetry/jp-free.htm]
One stanza goes as so:

I do not know
I what a human being must do.
I do not know
what a human being should try to get.
I think
that a human being can become part of nature.
I am feeling
that a human being is great because he is equal to
nothingness.
Oh I am shaken,
how hopeful to be equal to nothingness !
Even nothingness is destroyed
by natural spreading.

And so my answer is: the meaning varies upon the person.
Ta-da!

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. ~Aristotle~

I don't think there's a meaning. We exist to fill in the time gap we have from when we are born until we die. The things we do in between is up to us.

Yella:

I don't think there's a meaning. We exist to fill in the time gap we have from when we are born until we die. The things we do in between is up to us.

I agree with your final sentence. But surely there must be a lesson to be learned from living. Surely there must be a reason why you are who you are, why you happened to be alive today and not a hundred years forwards or backwards. I believe in a sort of preparedness we acquire on earth--a preparedness not driven by fate but by our own free decisions--so that, someday, after we die, we can realize (in what I believe will be the presence of God) some sort of grand truth about what it means to be a creation born out of pure love. Something that made your life on earth, no matter how short or debilitated, absolutely necessary.

I don't believe life has any inherent or fixed meaning. In essence, life itself is very pointless, I think. However, I believe that's the beauty of life. It has no innate purpose, so you can make whatever you want of it, assign your own purpose. Whatever you want the meaning of life to be, that's what it is.

The meaning of life can be divided into two parts.
1. People don't wear enough hats.
2. Matter is energy
If I were to say something more serious and less Monty Python I would say that the meaning of life should be the same for all living things. And the only thing I see that all life has in common is: Reproduction, trying to survive and dying. Take your pick.

I don't believe life has no meaning. If it doesn't, why do we exist at all? Coincidende? I personally don't think so.

However, I do think it varies from person to person. I don't know why I'm alive yet, but I want to find out, and I will keep searching until I do.

I agree with wafflini when he says the meaning of life is to find meaning in life.

be dru's hero.:

I think we're here to inspire and be inspired, to help people when we can, to love and be loved (not necessarily romantically). I think we're here to enjoy what we can, to learn what we can.

Blase:

I can't take the answer that there is no meaning to life.
If there is none then why do we live at all.

Because life somehow formed and we're part of it? I don't see what's so difficult to comprehend about the idea of living with no meaning of life.

I don't think life in general has any inherent meaning that goes for the whole of humanity, whatsoever. But hey, I kind of like it here. I like food, I like drink, I like family, friends, sociability, music (studying, listening, playing), arts, books, films, relationships, sex, nights out, etc.

Me enjoying life is a good enough reason for me to carry on living; it doesn't matter why we're here, or what the meaning of life is.

Social Darwinism

Edit:
Oh wait, oh wait! Oooh, I'm so sorry. I forgot that in order to join a discussion thread, one has to explain themselves and not rely on others to have common sense.

Dear wonderful people of Mibba, I believe that Social Darwinism is the answer to the meaning of life if you're wondering. This all dated back to your 9th grade biology class when you learn that a person is only put onto earth to breed and create better offspring that would be:
Sexier or ... at least more attractive than you
Healthier or... at least live longer than you
So they can repeat the cycle and create...
SUPER HUMANS OF THE YEAR 3000
... It's just like now except they live under the water.

Chocolate Thunda:

Social Darwinism

Edit:
Oh wait, oh wait! Oooh, I'm so sorry. I forgot that in order to join a discussion thread, one has to explain themselves and not rely on others to have common sense.

Dear wonderful people of Mibba, I believe that Social Darwinism is the answer to the meaning of life if you're wondering. This all dated back to your 9th grade biology class when you learn that a person is only put onto earth to breed and create better offspring that would be:
Sexier or ... at least more attractive than you
Healthier or... at least live longer than you
So they can repeat the cycle and create...
SUPER HUMANS OF THE YEAR 3000
... It's just like now except they live under the water.

Do they have triple-breasted women?

Personally, whilst social Darwinism makes sense there is a feasible possibilty of creating a distinct species dualism: the smarter, prettier people at the top and the less so at the bottom.

Mind you, on a personal level, keeping the human race going is a bigger crime against nature than not.

I think an exponential growth in the number and accessability of breasts is a common civilisational interest, so it should go without saying but here goes.

I think Social Darwinism as the sole purpose in life is the biggest pile of man-made excrement to have reared its ugly head in modern philosophy. The meaning of life is whatever you make it out to be. Popping out better babies being your ultimate purpose is something I could understand if you're still stuck at the single cell stage in evolution, but other than that, you should make your own purpose. There is no ultimate point, no hidden reason for our existence, our lives are what we make of them.

That, and boobs. Multiple boobs of the future.

Besides 42, the meaning of life is to live, love, enjoy ourselves and die to go onto whatever we imagine. While some say that the meaning of life is to learn, I disagree, though they may not be wrong. What I think is that we're here out of pleasure, so that this unknown God may tell the distinction between Him and us; He created us from Himself to see what He really is. We're only here to enjoy ourselves before we can do whatever we so please after death.

We're pawns in the intricate and beautiful expansion of the universe. Our souls are stars shooting aimlessly through dimensions, leaving a trail of light behind them.

Meaning is a tiny, human concept and to place only one on life itself is stupid.

In my opinion

I think the meaning of life is to find love and help it grow, whatever that means to you. Check out my poem "I Live For My Love" if you don't know what I mean...

Alex; subterfuge.:

Because life somehow formed and we're part of it? I don't see what's so difficult to comprehend about the idea of living with no meaning of life.

I don't think life in general has any inherent meaning that goes for the whole of humanity, whatsoever. But hey, I kind of like it here. I like food, I like drink, I like family, friends, sociability, music (studying, listening, playing), arts, books, films, relationships, sex, nights out, etc.

Me enjoying life is a good enough reason for me to carry on living; it doesn't matter why we're here, or what the meaning of life is.

Came to say something similar (and I was gonna make a hitchhikers joke x.x). Give this man a medal and a scotch, people!