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Seeing that I have 75 Unicoins, I decided to buy "Guaranteed answer" because it claims "No more need to wait: We guarantee you an answer on all of your questions."
I'm very curious to know what answer of the question "What is the meaning of 'life'?" would be.
(PS. I opted for "inspirational" answer.)
Ah . . . The meaning of 'life' is an easy one:
Please click on the following link: Life
Now, had you asked a difficult question like:
What's the meaning of life?
That would have been truly challenging to answer.
(Next time don't put quotes around the word life . . .)
42.
According to wikipedia 42 (forty-two) is the natural number immediately following 41 and directly preceding 43.
Love is the answer
I know because this chap, Aloe Blacc, said so.
But being a child of the 60s, I prefer John Lennon's approach
Mind Games
(Excerpt)
We all been playin' those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dude liftin' the veil
Doin' the mind guerrilla
Some call it magic, the search for the grail
Love is the answer
And you know that for sure
Love is a flower
You gotta let it, you gotta let it grow
Well, it's clearly unicoins from today onward.
Life has been given to us by God as an opportunity to follow his son Jesus Christ, and therefore enter eternal life. This has to be correct as all the minds of men past and present havent come up with anything else remotely feasable or believable.
"What is the meaning of life?" is a question that only has an answer relative to the asker because the definition of "meaning" suggests a relationship between states of existence and the events that modify those states. Since the state, in this case "life", and its associated events are so broad within the context of language, the question cannot be answered in the general case.
That said, as a person who is currently alive, I can offer some insight on my personal perception of "the meaning of life". To me, the "meaning" of life is to be alive. I base this idea purely on the fact that I find being alive more interesting than not being alive. To me, my life is more interesting now than before I was alive. By extrapolation I predict my life will be less interesting when I die. In the event of afterlife, the perception of any reward or punishment will only be relative to my state of being alive, which for me is still more interesting than being in the state before I was alive.
Since I am in the universe, and since to me being alive is more interesting than not being alive, I believe that many other things in the universe also find it more interesting to be alive. To me, this conjecture suggests that life is a manifestation of the universe's desire to be alive, and that each life is point of perception in this universe. Regardless of whether the universe is a collection of entities with similar desire or a single entity, on this planet a great amount of evidence exists that living entities do manifest, and that the majority of the actions of these entities are performed with the intention of being alive. For example, living beings seek sustenance, temperature regulation, and reproduce with the fundamental common intention of continuing to be alive. The balance of these actions in nature is imperfect and often brings confusion to human minds concerning the answer to the stated question.
Therefore, to me the answer is: "the meaning of life is that finding ways to continue to be alive is more interesting than failing to find ways to be alive."
