I would be fascinated in your answer to the following question -
“What is the meaning of life?â€
I am in the process of trying to get at least 1000 answers for this question. I am contacting people via the internet (using online communities and message boards) and by the good old postal service. I hope to organise the answers into themes and then publish my findings in some form. I have 200 answers so far and a pattern of responses is already forming. 
To reach all your hopes and expectations.
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S_O,
Why?
The meaning of life is that it exists. I am. You are. This given generates infinite possibility.
meaning of life? ask brian
-Imp
exactly…ride the spiral to the end.
S_O,
I just didn’t understand your “close thread” statement. If the possibilities are infinite, there should be some good ideas here as to what some of them are. To close means that one has accepted a single aspect of human reality as its total definition. Can you do that? I can’t.
i can ride the spiral. can you?
yes we know the possibilities are infinite. why go farther, thats all you need.
The meaning of life is up to you. You’ve been given a head start by others who have already invented the wheel, civil infrastructure, medicine, nations and Science and Religion.
My meaning of life might be similar to yours if we’ve grown up in the same culture. You cannot know what you don’t know-- only what you’ve been told or experienced.
If you mean the common meaning of life that every single, living, sentient being MUST include, I would say it is the continuance of their highest being.
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S._O>,
It takes all kinds to make a world and all worlds to make a kind. Whoever cannot understand complementary variety cannot understand how wholes are made. (Greek concept of plenitude, see A. O. Lovejoy’s “The Great Chain of Being”.) To stop, saying everything is resolved, is to die without hearing or knowing why even living mattered. Riding the spiral, which we all do anyway, is not a conclusion.
Life is Vitality in all its exhuberence, but this is not a generalization and is vaguely attributed to be true as the subjects that experience life cannot be accepted as being one and if thats so then it would infer harmony.
Life is perfectly relative.
‘Meaning’ is not the thing and this also being relative we could never with alacrity assume that we are nowhere perspectively ambiguous of the fact.
you’re totally misunderstanding the meaning of what i have said. dig deeper
life /laɪf/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[lahyf] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, plural lives /laɪvz/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[lahyvz] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, adjective
–noun
the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
the sum of the distinguishing phenomena of organisms, esp. metabolism, growth, reproduction, and adaptation to environment.
the animate existence or period of animate existence of an individual: to risk one’s life; a short life and a merry one.
a corresponding state, existence, or principle of existence conceived of as belonging to the soul: eternal life.
the general or universal condition of human existence: Too bad, but life is like that.
any specified period of animate existence: a man in middle life.
the period of existence, activity, or effectiveness of something inanimate, as a machine, lease, or play: The life of the car may be ten years.
a living being: Several lives were lost.
living things collectively: the hope of discovering life on other planets; insect life.
a particular aspect of existence: He enjoys an active physical life.
the course of existence or sum of experiences and actions that constitute a person’s existence: His business has been his entire life.
a biography: a newly published life of Willa Cather.
animation; liveliness; spirit: a speech full of life.
resilience; elasticity.
the force that makes or keeps something alive; the vivifying or quickening principle: The life of the treaty has been an increase of mutual understanding and respect.
a mode or manner of existence, as in the world of affairs or society: So far her business life has not overlapped her social life.
the period or extent of authority, popularity, approval, etc.: the life of the committee; the life of a bestseller.
a prison sentence covering the remaining portion of the offender’s animate existence: The judge gave him life.
anything or anyone considered to be as precious as life: She was his life.
a person or thing that enlivens: the life of the party.
effervescence or sparkle, as of wines.
pungency or strong, sharp flavor, as of substances when fresh or in good condition.
nature or any of the forms of nature as the model or subject of a work of art: drawn from life.
Baseball. another opportunity given to a batter to bat because of a misplay by a fielder.
(in English pool) one of a limited number of shots allowed a player: Each pool player has three lives at the beginning of the game.
–adjective
for or lasting a lifetime; lifelong: a life membership in a club; life imprisonment.
of or pertaining to animate existence: the life force; life functions.
working from nature or using a living model: a life drawing; a life class.
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^^^clever.
the meaning of life can easily found by opening a webster. neat.
If you want to understand the meaning of life look at life at it’s least complex state, then look at people at life’s most complex state. At it’s simplest state life’s purpose is to survive, expand, and to continue to exist. At it’s most complex, after the the first three criteria have been met, secondary purposes such as being glad with one’s surroundings, happiness(the lack of need for change) becomes the meaning or that carrot at the end of the stick. That’s all I can think of for right now. More to come, maybe.
edit: dyslexia
That’s too easy. The meaning of life, the universe, and everything is 42. Duh.
Spiral_Out has the right idea, in my opinion. If you want some ideas to expound upon, listen to Tool and let them be your tool - your vessel - to dig deeper and find organization in this chaos, or chaos in this organization.
tool is awesome…but I dunno what is its relation to the meaning of life…
and to answear the question of this thread…I think the meaning of life is to acomplish what that voice inside ‘‘tells’’ you… it doesn’t speak (in my case…but it makes me feel things) and to ‘fight’ and show how superior you are to those who have wronged you…
but then again…if you haven’t been wronged like me, then this will sound ridiculous…