What do you think the point or meaning of life is ?

[Lardlizard]

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There is no point, it just is. We are here briefly, our cycle short. Then we die.

Reproducing is how we are here not why we are here.

There is no why. We are here by chance.

But to make the most of being here we should do two things.

Learn and Enjoy. Everything breaks back to these two.

To keep yourself alive in the rat race until its your time is the reality of the meaning to me

My rose tinted view is to grow, nurture, reproduce and be content

I find that this really fucks with my head. If I think about life, our existence on earth, the size of the universe and so on, it literally messes with my mind & I end up thinking I am a pointless speck in time and space on earth for just 80 odd years in a universe that is billions of years old.

So, I try and think instead, that I only exist in the moment and what I do with each moment (as best I can) is what counts. That doesn't mean I don't plan for the future and I just wander around airy fairy gawping at dust motes and the clouds going by, but it does help me ground myself and try and be present and not overthink the pointlessness of myself!

There isn’t one. That is why we beer to live our lives to the full and in the best way possible.

wine and chocolate

To enjoy it. To make positive connections with other humans. To learn.

@JennaOfEluria Only opened this to check that someone had put that. I'll run away now because I don't have a sensible answer

@Fish2010 & @FrancesFryer surprised I was the first!

@BertrandRussell

There isn’t one. That is why we beer to live our lives to the full and in the best way possible.

Was ‘beer’ a Freudian slip?

The point is survival

To make a positive contribution to the world.

To love and be loved.

If you mean what is the overarching purpose of life for human beings in general....there isn't one, imo. If you mean what makes life feel meaningful for you, then that's different for everyone.

To be born and to die.

Therefore, to make the time between the two as enjoyable for yourself and others around you.

There is no divine meaning, juat individual experiences.

It doesn't make any less amazing, though.

I think each generation makes their own meaning

Having fun.

The only way to waste time is not to enjoy it. Unless, of course, it leads to better enjoyment in future. Work, for example, even if not enjoyed, is not a waste of time, as you later get to enjoy the money you earned.

There isn’t one. You have to make your own meaning however you see fit.

To create as many big fat juicy people as possible, then aliens will come and harvest us all.

For those who can :
To leave the world a better place than it was when you were born.
For the rest of us:
To leave the world no worse than it was when you were born.

There isn't one. We are only here by chance and the word would be no different if we weren't.

Bailey's and Black Forest Gateaux.

To have as good a time as i can before being thrown into the flames of hell

I think it's art, culture, and creativity. Without that, there is no meaning - human life is just a pointless cycle of reproduction. To be part of a species that can create works of great depth, insight or beauty is a wonderful and profound thing.

We are only here by chance and the word would be no different if we weren't

Oh, but it would be very, very different. In some ways it would be a much better world, but in the more important ways (from my perspective) it would be worth so much less.