Released on = February 23, 2007, 11:36 pm

Press Release Author = Reliable

Industry = Accounting

Press Release Summary = This is a question many people ask themselves at some point
during their lives, most in the context \"What is the purpose of life?\" Here are some
of the many potential answers to this perplexing question. The responses are shown
to overlap in many ways but may be grouped into the following categories

Press Release Body = What is the meaning of life?

This is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives, most
in the context \"What is the purpose of life?\" Here are some of the many potential
answers to this perplexing question. The responses are shown to overlap in many ways
but may be grouped into the following categories:


Survival and temporal success
...to live every day like it is your last and to do your best at everything that
comes before you
...to be always satisfied
...to live, go to school, work, and die
...to participate in natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of
the human race
...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future of
intelligent life
...to compete or co-operate with others
...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
...to gain and exercise power
...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
...to eat
...to prepare for death
...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction (alike to participating in
evolution)
...to protect and preserve one\'s kin, clan, or tribe (akin to participating in
evolution)
...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
...to observe the ultimate fate of humanity to the furthest possible extent
...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate


Wisdom and knowledge
...to master and know everything
...to be without questions, or to keep asking questions
...to expand one\'s perception of the world
...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
...to learn from one\'s own and others\' mistakes
...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
...to understand and be mindful of creation or the cosmos
...to lead the world towards a desired situation
...to satisfy the natural curiosity felt by man about life

Ethical
...to express compassion
...to follow the \"Golden Rule\"
...to give and receive love
...to work for justice and freedom
...to live in peace with yourself and each other, and in harmony with our natural
environment (see utopia)
...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
...to serve others, or do good deeds

Religious and spiritual
...to find perfect love and a complete expression of one\'s humanness in a
relationship with God
...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
...to become like God, or divine
...to glorify God
...to experience personal justice (i.e. to be rewarded for goodness)
...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to
expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. to seek objectivity)
...to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net
creativity)
...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical
levels: immortality, enlightenment, and atonement




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