The meaning of life

What I'm talking about is actually the meaning of life for humanity as a whole. I think our real mission is to genetically modify bacterias, plants, or even people, to be able to send them to Mars. We basically have to "plant" life there that will be able to live in a different condition so life in the universe can continue, considering the fact we haven't found any extraterrestrial life so far.

I got a feeling that we are part of a game. It is our goal to never let life cease to exist.

What do you think?

 

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I do not believe there is any meaning in life in particular. Our existence is no more important than an armadillo's. That being said we are very intelligent and as such the real meaning of life is whatever we choose to assign to it.

To me the meaning of life is to learn as much as I can, protect my family and avoid tragedy as much as possible.

 

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We all get a certain amount of energy at birth and we do with that what we choose. Thats all of us. You do with that what you want.

Thats what i think the meaning of our existence is.

 

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The purpose of life is to play the cards dealt to the best of his/her ability, as much as possible avoiding hurting others.

 

Find love.

 

Game? Well, then it wouldn't be random, purposeless, and heartless, but it is.

Life in a mortal universe, eh?

Let me know how it works out.

 

Agreed.

 

The purpose of life is to obey the Pharasees.

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I think that's as good a goal as any, but it isn't the meaning. I think we live in an utterly indifferent universe which is cooling down until it's eventual death. We invent purposes for ourselves to fill the emptiness. We can't even say filling the emptiness is meaningful or better than not doing so, it's just something some people do.

 

Life can take on an infinite amounts of meaning where do you want to start? Knowledge is most popular.

 

I think that "the meaning of life for humanity as a whole" is to continue to evolve along the aspect that Nature provided for all life.

Or...to figure out "the question" that produces the answer, "42".

 

I'm with you all the way!
I certainly don't believe we were meant to stagnate on this fart arse little blue orb...plenty of space out there, and plenty of room and objects for the seeds of life to take hold.

 

So you believe in Absurdism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_of_life

In absurdist philosophy, the Absurd arises out of the fundamental disharmony between the individual's search for meaning and the apparent meaninglessness of the universe. As beings looking for meaning in a meaningless world, humans have three ways of resolving the dilemma. Kierkegaard and Camus describe the solutions in their works, The Sickness Unto Death (1849) and The Myth of Sisyphus (1942):

Suicide (or, "escaping existence"): a solution in which a person simply ends one's own life. Both Kierkegaard and Camus dismiss the viability of this option.
Religious belief in a transcendent realm or being: a solution in which one believes in the existence of a reality that is beyond the Absurd, and, as such, has meaning. Kierkegaard stated that a belief in anything beyond the Absurd requires a non-rational but perhaps necessary religious acceptance in such an intangible and empirically unprovable thing (now commonly referred to as a "leap of faith"). However, Camus regarded this solution as "philosophical suicide".
Acceptance of the Absurd: a solution in which one accepts and even embraces the Absurd and continues to live in spite of it. Camus endorsed this solution, while Kierkegaard regarded this solution as "demoniac madness": "He rages most of all at the thought that eternity might get it into its head to take his misery from him!"[37]

 

Yes, pretty much, but with secular humanism thrown into the void, because, why not.

 

Humans are the only mutable, self-programming creators available that produce and apply meanings, commanding directives, etc. So any general ideation of "what the point of life is" is simply what a current controlling agency, majority or consensus prescribes. If there is such that can globally permeate all the local regulatory / practical / work instances of authority regarding what "I should be doing, thinking right now". Posthumanist ideology, for example, might consider "life as continuing" even if it was micro-machine based "beasts" migrating and replicating across space, transforming the galaxy into a nanotechnological wilderness.

If block-time was the case, then we might arguably assert that there really was some objective or meta-anthropic "significance, goal" or conclusion for humankind lurking ahead (though not "there" because of a personhood's plan, and also embedded among an array of final "destinations" for other things). Since the future would already exist (temporal changes would instead be sections of a permanent, higher-dimensional structure rather than states of a 3D universe that were annihilating and replacing themselves from moment to moment [presentism]).

 

I say....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jHPOzQzk9Qo

 

Mankind will be long gone before it ever figures out how to 'impregnate' itself on some other planet. If what we've done to Earth is an example that's a good thing.

 

I was about to say you're absolutely right, but you aren't. At least, not completely.
Where you have it, is in your statement that "we are part of a game".

All this comes down to is perception, and understanding. Disregard the "mission" statement. There isn't one. Never has been; never will be.
Other than the one you make for yourself. And that mission you make for yourself, will depend entirely upon your views of what life might be.

You have a few options, there. You can opt out, or you can opt in.
Opting out is easy. Opting in is more difficult, because you have to find a reason why you'd do so.



Sun is going to do the big kablooey in a few billion years.
It isn't the ones who go with the flow who will guarantee man's existence beyond that event. It is the ones who disregard dogma, and become a link in a chain at the end of which might, come the time, prevent our extinction. That's all you need to know.

In a few billion years, when the sun does that, no one is going to remember who you were. No one will remember your name. Unless, of course, you do something like inventing a cure for cancer.
But you can still flick the switches.