What is the point of life

[Hossaim]

seriously, the point of life is to die, as it's what everyone accomplishes by the end of it.

i think any comments on this?

[Pandemic Survivors]

For me, life doesn't have a point, per se. Saying "what is the meaning of life?", for me, is like saying "what is the meaning of purple?".... Any meaning it has, anything it represents or symbolises, is entirely within your own mind. Of course, that's not to say it isn't important, since your ideas and beliefs matter to you, and you matter a whole lot to you.

To me, then, my life is what I make of it ... y'know, whatever floats your boat.

I'm sort of confused now. Are we discussing "What is the point of life" or "What is the point of my life"?

[Barringtonia]

Whether there's a point this world is full of experiences, experiences that can only cause you to grow as a person.

Moments

Every moment that goes by contains an experience you can learn from, understand more. Everything from watching traffic go by to being there at the birth of your child, everything from sending an email to jumping out of a plane strapped to a parachute. All these are learning experiences your brain can file and connect and grow.

Too often people shy away from experiencing, but it's really all we can do.

Do things, with people if possible but, really, there's no particular relative value to experiences over 'new' and 'old' - your experience is no worse or better than anyone else's, we'll all die equal in the end.

[Cameroi]

life does not need a point. it is simply to be enjoyed, but in such a way as to be mindful to avoid robbing others of their enjoyment of it as well.

[Christmahanikwanzikah]

The point of life is to quote Red vs. Blue without anyone noticing.

[Pandemic Survivors]

seriously, the point of life is to die, as it's what everyone accomplishes by the end of it.

i think any comments on this?

Well in a sense Hossaim is right. The Danish philosopher K.E. Løgstrup wrote: "Creation is deferred destruction". It's what happens between creation and destruction, that matters.

I don't have a copy with me right now, but in "Screwrape Letters" C.S. Lewis wrote something like: "The past has frozen and the future is yet to come. Only in the moment man meets with eternity"

[Barringtonia]

life does not need a point. it is simply to be enjoyed, but in such a way as to be mindful to avoid robbing others of their enjoyment of it as well.

I don't necessarily agree that it is to be enjoyed. I believe any experience is of value, the painful ones as much as the joyful. It certainly might be easier to pursue joyful pursuits but I wouldn't shy away from any experience within reason.

To be quite honest, though I often fail in doing so, I genuinely believe that if you concentrated on truly making others happy then you'd probably have the best of lives.

[Geniasis]

Simple question but the most complicated problem we face in our entire lifes. Some of you may have simple answers but i urge you to please look farther then the surface, What will this accomplish, and is this really the way you want to spend your one single life on earth, i mean after life ends the after life goes on forever, however in the after life there is nothing.

For those of you that dont know i am a avid atheist so dont go saying stuff about heaven or god here pelase because i will just laugh!

It's whatever you'd like it to be, kiddo.

Incidentally, I've never liked the "corrupted computing" explanation. I much prefer the theory that Arthur Dent got it totally right and that there really is something fundamentally wrong about the universe.

[Iniika]

There's no point. Life is just here. But since it's here, I might as well enjoy it.

Think of it like this... what's the point of getting the flu? There is no point. But, since you've got it, you might as well enjoy the day off work

[Mike the Progressive]

There's no point. Life is just here. But since it's here, I might as well enjoy it.

Think of it like this... what's the point of getting the flu? There is no point. But, since you've got it, you might as well enjoy the day off work

So life is a disease? What a horrid example...

[Zeth Rekia]

Ask Mufasa and Elton John. They seem to know everything about the Circle of Life.

[Umbagar]

There's no point. Life is just here. But since it's here, I might as well enjoy it.

Think of it like this... what's the point of getting the flu? There is no point. But, since you've got it, you might as well enjoy the day off work

So life is a disease? What a horrid example...

why? both things can cause you lots of pain and suffering and you catch both life and diseases from other people. But you might as well enjoy your day off of work, because work for most of time entails being dead. Enjoy your brief respite in the world of the living.

[Meridiani Planum]

seriously, the point of life is to die, as it's what everyone accomplishes by the end of it.

i think any comments on this?

Death isn't an accomplishment of life, it is the end of accomplishment. What is accomplished precedes death, and cannot be death. Life is the accomplishment of life, or rather whatever was accomplished in life and gave one's life its character.

As I see it, life is an end-in-itself, meaning its own accomplishment. When we look back at someone's life to see what it was that they had accomplished -- let's say Einstein's -- we don't say, "Oh, look! He died! Good for him!" We might say: "Oh, look! He made great advances in physics and really made something out of himself."

I don't think that just any life is worthwhile, but what is worthwhile is found in life and during one's life. This accomplishment is not "erased" by death, since it was an accomplishment that exists for a particular time and place. The person might no longer be in existence, but the life was lived, and shall always have been lived.

[Derscon]

Kill yourself. Don't want to? Ask yourself why; there's your point to life.

[The Parkus Empire]

Kill yourself. Don't want to? Ask yourself why; there's your point to life.

Fear? Apathy?

[Iniika]

There's no point. Life is just here. But since it's here, I might as well enjoy it.

Think of it like this... what's the point of getting the flu? There is no point. But, since you've got it, you might as well enjoy the day off work

So life is a disease? What a horrid example...

Or a disease is like life, depending on how you look at the simile.

To be clear, I'm assuming by 'point' the OP means 'purpose' or 'reason'.

There is no point to having the flu. There is no point to having life. But, since you already have it, it's neither here nor there wondering WHY you have it. You've just got to ENJOY it.

[Grave_n_idle]

Simple question but the most complicated problem we face in our entire lifes. Some of you may have simple answers but i urge you to please look farther then the surface, What will this accomplish, and is this really the way you want to spend your one single life on earth, i mean after life ends the after life goes on forever, however in the after life there is nothing.

For those of you that dont know i am a avid atheist so dont go saying stuff about heaven or god here pelase because i will just laugh!

"Life" doesn't have "a point" - it's just the carrier. Whether your own life has a point, and what that point might be... that's in your hands.

[Hedoria]

Living is probably not a bad thing; if you like to live that is. Dying is probably not a bad thing; if you don't like to live. Each to their own.

Telsa

[Scientific socks]

The only reason life exists is because previous or current life gave existance to it. Therefore the meaning of your life is simply to keep reproduction going. As there are limited resources and the more you reproduce the more succesful you are you need to have lots of children and remove the children on others.

Some religous organisations actually have this part covered. The idea or spread and mutliply (and kill thoes who dont fit in whilst doing it).
This definition sadly makes life disgusting and ugly. But it is the best I have heard so far.

[Rabang]

The point of life is that to live with goals and to die with purpose.. We are living here on Earth to pursue our own individual interests. That's the first goal of living in this life..

[Copenhagen Metropolis]

Living.

[Esternial]

Kill yourself. Don't want to? Ask yourself why; there's your point to life.

Or make it your goal to find out.

[Abarth]

Life has no meaning or purpose...Nietzsche said

[Esternial]

Life has no meaning or purpose...Nietzsche said

And Nietzche is dead. I bet he died knowing he did nothing, except inspire Hitler's ideology, which means his life had a purpose...for someone else.

[Serchar-Batelo]

IT IS THE POINT TO DIE