what is the meaning of life, whole universe?
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42 (or forty two if you want two words instead of two numbers).
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For the Monty Python film see The Meaning of Life\nThe philosophical question "What is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "What is the nature of life (and of the universe in which we live)?", "What is the significance of life?", "What is valuable in life?", and "What is the purpose of, or in, (one's) life?". These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and arguments, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations.\n\nBottom line for me is that we are here and we should do the best that we can with whatever choices we make, the roads we travel and the experiences we are given.  While I believe in God, NO ONE REALLY KNOWS what any of this means, until they pass on.  There hasn't been any one who has died and come back to tell us all about it, so we won't know until we go there ourselves.
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Here is the mathematical formula:\n\nThe universe is endless.\n\nSo are the possibilities of having a life-form like humans elsewhere in the universe.\n\nEndless divided by endless equals to unknown
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The word "universe" basicly means everything in existence. If it were "made" of something it would be made of everything.\n\nBut scientificly speaking, in the universe, there is energy/matter (which are interchangable) and there is void. The void is not a thing, the universe is made of energy/matter.
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There isn't a true meaning of life, any more than there is a true meaning of rocks, or a true meaning of gravity.\n\nThis is not the same thing as saying life is pointless or worthless. It's what you aim for that counts - as the saying goes, shoot for the moon, and even if you miss you reach the stars. You have to agree with yourself which aims make sense, where you want to go - nobody can do this for you, they won't be the right ones. For me, coming to terms with the fact I can't do everything was the first step towards realising I can do something. \n\nMay you work out what your own personal something is, and exceed it!
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"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives. Some people believe that the meaning of life is one or more of the following:\n\nSurvival and temporal success\n\n...to accumulate wealth and increase social status \n...to compete or co-operate with others \n...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance \n...to gain and exercise power \n...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book \n...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction \n...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially \n...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate \n...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension) \nWisdom and knowledge\n\n...to be without question, or to keep asking questions \n...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes \n...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom \n...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers \n...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life \nEthical\n\n...to express compassion \n...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia) \n...to give and receive love \n...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life \n...to serve others, or do good deeds \n...to work for justice and democracy \nEsoteric/Other\n\n...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context \n...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace \n...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race \n...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human \n...to become God, or God-like \n...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me") \n...to die, or become a martyr \n...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God) \n...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general \n...to give life meaning (an example of antimetabole, though this has little impact on its accuracy) \n...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity) \n...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny \n...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others \n...to seek and find beauty \n...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose, existence has no meaning beyond which one chooses to give it) \n...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God \n...to live and enjoy the passage of time \n...to own a megaphone
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You're assuming that the universe extends for infinite.\n\nOf course, if you're assuming that it has meaning, does that mean that it has intelligent design? And therefore, an intelligent designed?\n\nIn other words, no.
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What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives. Some people believe that the meaning of life is one or more of the following:\n\nSurvival and temporal success\n\n...to accumulate wealth and increase social status \n...to compete or co-operate with others \n...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance \n...to protect one's family, no matter the cost \n...to gain and exercise power \n...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book \n...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction \n...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially \n...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate \n...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension) \nWisdom and knowledge\n\n...to be without question, or to keep asking questions \n...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers \n...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes \n...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom \n...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life \n...to experience anything if not something in this world \nEthical\n\n...to express compassion \n...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia) \n...to give and receive love \n...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life \n...to serve others, or do good deeds \n...to work for justice and democracy \nReligious, spiritual and esoteric\n\n...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context \n...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace \n...to become God, or God-like \n...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God) \n...to follow the "Golden Rule" \n...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity) \n...to reach Heaven in the afterlife \n...to understand and follow the "Word of God" \n...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God \nOther\n\n...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race \n...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human \n...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me") \n...to die, or become a martyr \n...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general \n...to live, and enjoy the passage of time \n...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment \n...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny \n...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others \n...to seek and find beauty \n...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose) \n...still some do not even think there is any purpose whatsoever
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I could give you almost 200 of them:\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result?p=what+is+the+meaning+of+life\n\nUpdate: Make that almost 300 now!
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Creation! The meaning of life is what you make of it. The universe is what is there for you to discover. and everithing is what you live for. put them together and the answer is the same: CREATION
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Life – it has a meaning and loving purpose - you just have to find your purpose and live it.\n\nI believe every person is here for a definite purpose. Each person is special and valuable; that refers to me, you, your family, friends, in fact everybody! There is a loving plan for each of our lives here on earth and there is no such thing as coincidence. I don't believe that anything in life happens by chance and that every aspect of our lives points to something deeper.\n\nYou need to decide now to live for God rather than for yourself. You spend your life on Earth preparing yourself (as best you can) for death. I don't see death as a scary, negative experience, but birth into a bliss filled eternal life with God. I believe that this is something you have to consciously choose or not during your life on earth.\n\nThe meaning of life is for us to discover that we are true children of an infinitely loving and merciful God, to find out what our responsibilities are to our Creator, and to fulfill those responsibilities.  Each of us is called to affirm, accept and develop the talents God has given us.
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42=Answer to Life the Universe and Everything.  Line from Douglas Adam's book The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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Everyone has their own meaning. We're all on Earth for a purpose because God dosn't make junk! Life is where we are until Heaven is ready for us to die and come to it. This is just temporary, we're all just "passing through!" Life is about freedom, loyalty, happiness. To learn and explore! To protect each other, no matter the consequences! And having faith in everyone, even those who seem helpless! Also forgiving those who bring you harm. And to be truthful and happy! That is my idea of how life should be. What if family's spent more time together? What if more people took time to understand each other? How about if people help those in need and talk to the lonely and help out the weak? That is my meaning of life!
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Life is a multi-faceted concept. Life may refer to the ongoing process of which living things are a part, the period between the conception (or a point at which the entity can be considered to be an individualized being) and death of an organism, the condition of an entity that has been born (or reached the point in its existence at which it can be established to be alive) and has yet to die, and that which makes a living thing alive.
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life is a discovery...of yourself...your desires...your ambitions....your destiny....\n\nand of everything that can ever be....\n\nlife is a melody, a mystery, an expression, a story, a rhythm, a puzzle, a reflection...life is an awareness of the cosmic soul
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What is the meaning of life? I like to know everyone's opinion on that.
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and what is the meaning of life