CHEESE!\n\nOr if you want a more philisophical answer:\n\n"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves. Some people believe that the meaning of life is:\n\n...to accumulate wealth \n...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context \n...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race \n...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human \n...to be without question, or to keep asking questions \n...to become God, or God-like \n...to compete or co-operate with others \n...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me") \n...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance \n...to die, or become a martyr \n...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God) \n...to express compassion \n...to find inner peace \n...to gain and exercise power \n...to give and receive love \n...to give life meaning (an example of antimetabole) \n...to learn and find enlightenment \n...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book \n...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia) \n...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction \n...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity) \n...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny \n...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others \n...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life \n...to seek and find beauty \n...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally, financially, or spiritually \n...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate \n...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom \n...to serve others, or do good deeds \n...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose, existence has no meaning beyond which one chooses to give it) \n...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension) \n...to try to understand the meaning of life \n...to work for justice and democracy \n...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God \n...or some combination of the above
what is the meaning of life?