erm, well since you asked.....

Survival and temporal success

to live everyday like it is your last and to do your best
at everything that comes before you
to accumulate wealth and increase social status
to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human
to compete or co-operate with others
to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
to die having succeeded in your purpose
to gain and exercise power
to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
to live
to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction (alike to number two)
to protect one's family
to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny
to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)
to complete your list of life goals
to find something to believe

Wisdom and knowledge

to be without question, or to keep asking questions
to find out the meaning of life
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 try to discover and understand the meaning of life
to understand creation

Ethical

to express compassion
to follow the "Golden Rule"
to give and receive love
to live in a way that you don't harm yourself and don't harm your environment
to work for justice and freedom
to live in peace with 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 achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
to achieve rebirth in the Pure Land
to become like God, or God-like
to be rewarded for your deeds
to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God)
to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
to die and become a martyr
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
to understand and follow the "Word of God"
to worship, serve, or achieve union with God
to disprove the existence of a or of all gods
Other

to be emotionally fulfilled
to find true love
to live, love, and laugh
to achieve self-actualisation
to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general
to live, and enjoy the passage of time
to have fun
to participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe
to make the conformists' lives miserable (see non-conformism)
to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others
to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced (see Buddhism)
to seek and find beauty
as there is no intrinsic meaning to life, to each individual, the "meaning of life" is whatever he/she decides it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid.
an answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?" is that it is just simply being able to ask the question, "What is the meaning of life?"
to determine a set of goals based on an individuals belief in the meaning of life and work towards the attainment of those objectives.

a combination of any of the above.

Posted By: Tomblander, Sep 23, 16:33:27