Dzīves jēga

2006-10-17

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to live everyday like it is your last and to do your best at everything that comes before you+
to accumulate wealth and increase social status+/-
to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race--
to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human+
to compete or co-operate with others-/+
to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance--
to die having succeeded in your purpose+
to gain and exercise power+/-
to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book+
to live+/-
to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction (alike to number three)--
to protect one`s family+/-
to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny++
to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially+
to see how long humanity can go on, before it destroys the Earth+
to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate+
to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)+
to complete your list of life goals++
to find something to believe+
to be without question, or to keep asking questions+
to try to discover and understand the meaning of life+
to expand one`s perception of the world+/-
to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers++
to learn from one`s own and others` mistakes-
to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom+/-
to understand creation-/+
to satisfy the natural curiosity felt by man about life.+
to express compassion-/+
to follow the "Golden Rule"
to give and receive love++
to live in a way that you don`t harm yourself and don`t harm your environment+
to work for justice and freedom+
to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)+
to protect humanity, or more generally the environment+/-
to serve others, or do good deeds+/-
2 Thessalonians 1: 11, 12 says our instructions from God as Christians is to be like Christ and to be worthy of his calling by doing what Christ would do (W.W.J.D.)-/+
to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context-
to achieve enlightenment and inner peace+
to achieve rebirth in the Pure Land+
to become like God, or God-like--
to be rewarded for your deeds-/+
to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God)+/-
to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell-
to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)-
to reach Heaven in the afterlife-/+
to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life+
to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment and atonement+/-
to understand and follow the "Word of God"-
to worship, serve, or achieve union with God--
to be emotionally fulfilled++
to find true love++
to live, love, and laugh++
to achieve self-actualisation??
to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")--
to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one`s experience of life, or even life in general+/-
to live, and enjoy the passage of time+
to have fun+
to participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe+
to make the conformists` lives miserable (see nonconformism)-
to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)-
to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others-/+
to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced (see Buddhism)+/-
to seek and find beauty+
as there is no intrinsic meaning to life, to each individual, the "meaning of life" is whatever he/she decides it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid.++
an answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?" is that it is just simply being able to ask the question, "What is the meaning of life?" -
to determine a set of goals based on an individuals belief in the meaning of life and work towards the attainment of those objectives.-/+
to make life as difficult as possible for others--
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to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)-/+
just a series of events-
just nature taking its course-/+
the wheel of time keeps on turning-/+
the cycle of life-/+
whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception"-/+
there is no purpose or meaning whatsoever (see nihilism)+
life may actually not exist, this is all a surreal dream.+
to live in fear of possible events that may happen after life ends.--
have fun while it lasts.+
the purpose of life is balance.-/+