Well you say that the meaning of life is to collect? So the purpose of life is to collect? The reason life exists is to collect?

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Excellent point! So in this sense you also do not believe in any kind of overarching universal meaning of life. You think that once alive, we then create our meaning as we need, or want to.

to be 'we'

Yes, that's pretty much it.

The "sandbox" analogy works fairly well.

Everyone in the sandbox has a common purpose of "to play in the sandbox" (otherwise they wouldn't be in the sandbox in the first place).

But each person in the sandbox is doing what they're doing according to their personal needs and/or wants.

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!

-Conan The Barbarian

Replace "lamentatins" with "moans of pleasure" and I'm with you!

I don't think the OP question could be answered any better in six letters or less.

Define "we".

No matter which angle you look at it..we are coming from the same material as other living beings,animals,flowers... and made from what planets made of, essentially the same as stars, galaxies and the universe itself.

Asking what's the point of the world...is the same thing.

Simply put, the meaning of life is whatever you want it to mean. Whatever you want to dedicate yourself to is your meaning. There is no singular meaning that applies to all.

LIFE. PERIOD.

The meaning of life is: no letters :)

The minute we are born we start to die so for me the meaning of life is to die. Can't have one without the other.

Actually that could be one of the reasons we incarnate into finite bodies. The idea of living forever might be a huge responsibility for some entities. Some might actually find comfort in dieing because living is a huge responsibility.

It is easy to die. Not so easy to make life work the way we want it to.

The meaning of life is what you make of it

Between the beginning of life and it's end everyone has their own meaning of what life is, it could be reproducing, loving your other, living for your faith or making money it doesn't matter what it is as long as you have a purpose and a meaning to your life.

Who says it's easy to die nobody knows that answer until we face it ourselves it might be easy or hard it might just be the beginning of something else or the end of everything who knows and I guess it all depends on your faith for what you believe life means.

By saying that its easy to die, what I mean is that some people find life to be the greater challenge, not death.

And it is easy to die if you really want to die. Just jump off a cliff or shoot yourself. That's easy enough.

But some people like to make it more difficult than it is. They kill themselves slowly by abusing drugs or living dangerously or carelessly or unhealthy lifestyles that eventually kill them or by eating too much junk food or by disease induced by stress, fear, neglect etc.

Of the two challenges, I think that living a healthy happy life and finding your purpose is the bigger challenge. Yes, dieing is easy.

A song from The Meaning Of Life

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

How can one propose a meaning to something for which there is no clear agreement of what that something is?

Maybe that belongs in the Paradox topic!

To the OP - first you have describe what life you are intending to discuss, then you have to place some limitation on variables.

Then, I just might ask, how could we ponder the meaning of one form of life without considering the connection of that form with every other?

Oh Red, are you serious? I think we know what life the O.P. is talking about.

Our lives.

Lets not make it overly complicated.

Jb - then describe what is life so that we can all agree on what life we are discussing?


I'm editing I forgot to add.

if we are discussing our own individual lives, then the question should be

What purpose HAVE YOU assigned to YOUR LIFE?

I am not sure that the "meaning of life" is the same thing as individual purpose.

I am assuming that the O.P. is talking about human life, the whole birth to death thing. I may be assuming wrong, but that's the way I took it.