Whats the purpose of life?

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Whats the purpose of life?

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The philosophical question quotWhat is the meaning of life?quot means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word quotmeaningquot, which opens the question to many interpretations, such as quotWhat is the origin of life?quot, quotWhat is the nature of life and of the universe in which we live?quot, quotWhat is the significance of life?quot, quotWhat is valuable in life?quot, and quotWhat is the purpose of, or in, ones life?quot. These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and arguments, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations.brbrThese questions are separate from the scientific issue of the boundary between things with life and inanimate objects.brPopular beliefsbrquotWhat is the meaning of life?quot is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives, most in the context quotWhat is the purpose of life?quot Here are some of the many potential answers to this perplexing question. The responses are shown to overlap in many ways but may be grouped into the following categoriesbrbrSurvival and temporal successbr...to live every day like it is your last and to do your best at everything that comes before youbr...to be always satisfiedbr...to live, go to school, work, and diebr...to participate in natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human racebr...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future of intelligent lifebr...to compete or cooperate with othersbr...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistancebr...to gain and exercise powerbr...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a bookbr...to eatbr...to prepare for deathbr...to spend life in the pursuit of happiness, maybe not to obtain it, but to pursue it relentlessly.br...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction alike to participating in evolutionbr...to protect and preserve ones kin, clan, or tribe akin to participating in evolutionbr...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financiallybr...to observe the ultimate fate of humanity to the furthest possible extentbr...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebratebr...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific meansbr...to attempt to have many sexual conquests as in Arthur Schopenhauers will to procreatebr...to find and take over all free space in this quotgamequot called lifebr...to seek and find beautybr...to kill or be killedbr...No point. Since having a point is a condition of living human consciousness. Animals do not need a point to live or exist. It is more of an affliction of consciousness that there are such things as points, a negative side to evolutionary development for lack of better words.brbrWisdom and knowledgebr...to master and know everythingbr...to be without questions, or to keep asking questionsbr...to expand ones perception of the worldbr...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiersbr...to learn from ones own and others mistakesbr...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdombr...to understand and be mindful of creation or the cosmosbr...to lead the world towards a desired situationbr...to satisfy the natural curiosity felt by humans about lifebrbrEthicalbr...to express compassionbr...to follow the quotGolden Rulequotbr...to give and receive lovebr...to work for justice and freedombr...to live in peace with yourself and each other, and in harmony with our natural environmentbr...to protect humanity, or more generally the environmentbr...to serve others, or do good deedsbrbrReligious and spiritualbr...to find perfect love and a complete expression of ones humanness in a relationship with Godbr...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural contextbr...to achieve enlightenment and inner peacebr...to become like God, or divinebr...to glorify Godbr...to experience personal justice i.e. to be rewarded for goodnessbr...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is i.e. to seek objectivitybr...to be a filter of creation between heaven and hellbr...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption see net creativitybr...to reach Heaven in the afterlifebr...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous lifebr...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels immortality, enlightenment, and atonementbr...to understand and follow the quotWord of Godquotbr...to discover who you arebr...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 facedbrbrPhilosophicalbr...to give life meaningbr...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 philosophersbr...to know the meaning of lifebr...to achieve selfactualisationbr...all possible meanings have some validitybr...life in itself has no meaning, for its purpose is an opportunity to create that meaning, thereforebr...to diebr...to simply live until one dies there is no universal or celestial purposebr...nature taking its course the wheel of time keeps on turningbr...whatever you see you see, as in quotprojection makes perceptionquotbr...there is no purpose or meaning whatsoeverbr...life may actually not exist, or may be illusory br...to contemplate quotthe meaning of the end of lifequotbrbrOtherbr...to contribute to collective meaning quotwequot or quotusquot without having individual meaning quotIquot or quotmequotbr...to find a purpose, a quotreasonquot for living that hopefully raises the quality of ones experience of life, or even life in generalbr...to participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universebr...to make conformists lives miserablebr...to make life as difficult as possible for others i.e. to compete