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lauantai 13. marraskuuta 2010

What is the meaning of life?

To develop to better person and to understand those who not yet has found the meaning of life.
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Philosophy

Platonism: Attaining the highest form of knowledge, which is the Idea of the Good.

Aristotelianism: The Highest Good, happiness, well-being, flourishing, excellence.

Cynicisn: Living a life of Virtue that agrees with Nature.

Cyrenaicism: Happiness and pleasure.

Epicureanism: Greatest good in seeking modest peasures.

Stoicism: To be in harmony with the universe's divine order.

Classical liberalism: Individual liberty.

Kantianism: All actions are performed in accordance with some underlying ethical principle.

Utilitarianism: Greatest happiness principle.

Nihilism: Life has no meaning.

Pragmatism: The meaning of life is discoverable only via experience.

Existentialism: Each person creates the meaning of his/her own life.

Absurdism: Meaning of life can't be found, but resolving the problem can be done three ways: escaping existence (suicide), religious belief or acceptance of the absurd (demoniac madness).

Humanism: Human personality (general sense) is the purpose of a human being's life.

Logical positivism: Ones life has meaning to him/herself and to others around him/her, but life itself has no meaning.

Naturalistic pantheism: To care for and look after nature and the environment.

Religion

Zoroastrianism: To ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay with good deeds.

Judaism: To serve the one true God and to prepare for the world to come.

Christianity: To seek divine salvation through the grace of God and intercession of Christ.

Islam: Earthly life is merely a test, determining one's afterlife, either in paradise or in Hell.

Bahá'í Faith: Spiritual growth and service to humanity.

Hinduism: Four possible aims to human life from least to greatest:
Kama (wish, desire, love and sensual pleasure),
Artha (wealth, prosperity, glory),
Dharma (righteousness, duty, morality, virtue, ethics, encompassing notions such as non-violence and truth),
Moksha (liberation from the cycle of rebirth).

Jainism: Enlightenment via truth and non-violence (liberation from the cycle of rebirth).

Buddhism: Collecting good karma and getting to Nirvana, liberation of both suffering and rebirth.

Sikhism: Peace, equality and positive action.

Shinto: The sufferings of life are the sufferings of the divine spirit in search of progress in the objective world.

Taoism: To realise the temporal nature of the existence.

Confucianism: The ultimate meaning of life can be realized in ordinary human existence.

Biology
To live and breed.

My reason to live: To find the light, love and happiness, to live in peace and harmony with everybody and with environment, to understand the World and to be a part of history.
Have I accomplished it? Not yet all of it.

What isn't the meaning of life? 
42.
To get rich.
Thinking it all of your life.
Not to use it.
To waste it.
To win.
To get in heaven.
To try everything.
Purpose of life is to end (like Agent Smith said in Matrix)

How?

With passion.
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Do everything you do in life with as much care, love and passion you can give, and you will succeed greatly. Keep your heart with you even in the littlest things and the life will go just fine with you and everyone around you. Passion is a very good thing to use for work and human relationships too. It can be added to everything.

Where?

There where you are.
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The grass is not greener at the other side of the fence. It really isn't. The place you've been growing up is your home place, wherever it might be, and that is the best place for you to live. Life don't usually change better when moving, other countries are not so better places to live. Respect your home country (and possible city), it's for you and you are for it. You are a part of your own culture and it's difficult to change culture. You can do whatever you want there where you are, it's just a matter of arrangement.

Who?

You.
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If you don't do it, no one else won't. You will notice that things doesn't come always like you expected, most of the time they only proceed when you do them yourself. If you give work to do to other people, there is a high propability that something, if not everything, won't be done. At least in time. If the thing is important to you, you have to do it yourself. That doesn't mean you have to do it alone, but being part of it is the best thing to get it done. If you just give work to other people and they are not interested in it as much as you, which very often is true, then the things won't get done.

When?

Now.
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If you don't do it now, you'll probably never do it. What goes around, comes around (in Finland we say: what you leave behind, you'll find ahead). Unfinished work press, so do it now. Doing things right away is the best thing to go forward in life. They who do nothing, will accomplish nothing, and they'll have a boring life. Too many people regrets in their deathbed the things they haven't done when they had time. Time is the worst enemy of us. Every human being have just limited amount of time, and you have to use it wise. Do the important things when you have the time, tell your loved ones that you love them, be with your family, remember your friends, do it now!

Why?

Because of no reason.
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If you keep asking why about everything, you miss the point. You don't need to know and understand everything. Sometimes people don't want anybody to know reasons of their acts. It's better to leave those things alone. So stop asking why and just enjoy life. In nature and universe there is no reasons to all things. Sometimes something just happens because of coincidence, you must accept that.

What?

Everything.
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The ultimate question, what. First question of the babies. Answer is everything, you just have to look around you. Keep your eyes open and be always open-minded for new things. It's never too late to learn new things. World is a wonderful place, enjoy it every day. Watch it, listen it, smell it, taste it, touch it, sense it. Use all of your senses and you will have a good life.