What is the meaning of life? What is the purpose of existence?

[allfoak]

The only purpose of life is to live it.
Everyone should strive to live their highest ideal.
How one does that depends upon where they are starting from.
Thankfully it is different for everyone.
If it were not we would only have one kind of cheerios.

 

[muhammad_isa]

..the meaning to our life is linked to our Creator's purpose.

That is right..

 

[Spiderman]

The purpose is to be the best version of yourself. That is why you are here. And you must discover what and who the best version of you is.

 

[JRMcC]

I like the "just live your life" attitude. It looks like aside from that people feel strongly about the Richard Dawkins atheist position and the Abrahamic religion follower position.
What about this one?
"It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified." - Nietzsche
This isn't necessarily incompatible with the Christian/Muslim view.

 

[wizanda]

42 is the wrong answer, it should be 64.

 

[Thief]

What is the meaning of life? What is the purpose of existence?

The word 'meaning' is a bit over used nowadays.
Design is better.

You have five senses, all geared to expose your mind and heart to this life and living.
Your body is a learning device.
It won't do much else.
You are here to learn all that you can before you die.

Then you leave the dust behind.

 

[viole]

What is the meaning of life? What is the purpose of existence?

Whatever the purpose is, what is its purpose?

Ciao

- viole

 

[viole]

If you want to throw in religion, of course there are many answers to this question. That's the basics, though, that all religions I assume would support to one extent or another.

Yes, and that is the only reason why they exist.

Ciao

- viole

 

[YmirGF]

I suspect that most of us super apes who ask what the meaning of life is do so because we do not feel intensely alive. If we felt genuinely alive, the meaning of it all wouldn't interest us.

I like this very much, Phil.

I'm very much alive and luxuriating in every moment. I'll ponder what it all meant when I get back Home.

 

[muhammad_isa]

The purpose is to be the best version of yourself..

Yes, we must strive to be sincere..

 

[YmirGF]

Yes, we must strive to be sincere..

Some of us are sincere. It's not something that you should need to work at, not saying that some human animals really do need to crank this up a few notches.

 

[Gambit]

Category errors: these questions are meaningless.
Life is not the sort of "thing" that has meaning, existance is not the sort of "thing" that has purpose. Neither is a thing.

Are "questions" things?

 

[Aquitaine]

There is no objective meaning to it: it is up to the individual to define/decide if there is any meaning in existence.

 

[Gambit]

Instead, I would say that sentience (not life proper) has not a meaning, but an opportunity. And the existence of that opportunity creates a matching duty.

Duty iimplies something that is obligatory. Why are we obligated?

 

[Gambit]

I think that the purpose of my existence is for me to learn to let go.

To let go of what?

 

[Gambit]

Jesus is "the life". Its purpose and meaning is found in Him.

So, what's the purpose and meaning?

 

[Gambit]

Life will mean different things to different people. But seeing life is created by God, we should be asking what it means to him. The Bible reveals that we are here for a reason and the Creator took years to prepare the earth for our arrival so he obviously has a plan for us.

If you ask me, the meaning to our life is linked to our Creator's purpose.

Whats' the Creator purpose?

 

[Sapiens]

To have your genes gain access to the gene pool of future generations.

 

[Gambit]

The meaning of life is whatever you want it to be.

So. what does it mean to you?

 

[Spiderman]

So, what's the purpose and meaning?

The purpose is charity, hospitality, and the will of God. The meaning behind it is redemption.