life life life WHY WHY WHY

Re: what is the meaning of life

Life evolved in the universe as a quest for meaning.

We, humans, only get glimpses.
 Our task and priviledge is to communicate those insights to other humans.
There is no answer - it as on-going debate.

Some people and groups think goal is to accumulate power and control resources,
Other think, goal is to help others,
to find love, bring up children...

It is a mix of al that - but right mix is different for each person,
it depends on what prof. Wilson calls gene-culture coevolution
http://ideas.repec.org/p/wop/safiwp/01-10-058.html
http://www.zebra.net/~ernie.seckinger/Wilson.html

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=451054

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=447613

There is no answer to the question "Why?"
Why? - because "why" implies that there exists a reason for life,
which implies that there is or was a reasoner, and further that some
force guided by that reason created life.
There is no evidence to support any of these assumptions.

If, despite the lack of evidence, you choose to believe these
assumptions, then it is for you to select what ever reason you choose
and believe that too.  Your view of the origin of life will at least
be internally consistent, even if it happens to be completely
erroneous.

There are however some excellent partial answers to the question
"How?".  This is the provence of the science known as biology.

42.

See 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything
and
http://searchsmallbizit.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid44_gci211501,00.html

no no no IDEA IDEA IDEA

life is one of the opurtunity to do something in world
that is whatever it may be
be positive always

why not?

Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

http://www.reformed.org/documents/WSC_frames.html

A good answer that has inspired me is to be found in the book "man's
search for meaning" by Victor Frankl who worte it just after surviving
a Nazi concentration camp. He calls his idea logo therapy.

"Plato did not question that we have lived before and will live again.
He only wondered that it could be thought otherwise.---The people's
Plato, Henry L. Drake.

"The philosophies  of ancient worlds, classic cultures and oriental
countries have their roots in the belief that man is reborn repeatedly
on earth until he has accomplished his own freedom from the cycle of
rebirth. Although this magnificent theme of continuous, progressive,
mortal schooling of man and his soul is not entirely lost to man
during any period of civilization, there are times when it is clouded
and obscured. For such a belief does not flourish in nations where the
majority of souls born to that nation tend towards materialistic,
intellectual philosophies. Since man has made colossal mistakes in
materialistic civilizations, he should welcome the belief that he has
opportunities to return repeatedly until he improves himself and his
world. If all men believed they must return to expiate the mistakes
made each life, it would serve as such a universal corrective measure
as to bring all earth life into better, if not perfect order.

The ancient philosophical beliefs emphasized the necessity for man to
return to the earth school until all lessons have been learned. There
are areas of memory within the soul which retain knowledge of the
philosophy when it was an accepted belief in previous lives. Any
mention of the theme of rebirth in a reading is quietly accepted by
the soul, even if the human mind, because of its current belief in a
one-life philosophy, attempts to reject the concept."---The Flowering
Tree,Gladys V. Jones

saabster-ga -  

Thank you,  

"The philosophies  of ancient worlds, classic cultures and oriental
countries have their roots in the belief that man is reborn repeatedly
on earth until he has accomplished his own freedom from the cycle of
rebirth."

Nothing has ever made so much sense to me,  I now have purpose.

the purpose of life is simply to be
to exist
for time to come to pass
and when it has, to have been part of it

To live is to breathe. If you are breathing than you have a meaningful purpose.

the meaning of life is to have a life of meaning