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. | -/+ |