Ever struggle with it’s concept??
the purpose is about a sunny day, sticky tyres n a fast bike 
works for me 
Only when I took LSD as a teenager and always came to a sudden realisation of why we are here and what life is all about just to forget it when I was straight again. Pah!
shando
I think about this regularly and, regularly, I never reach any conclusion . . !
I try to follow some very simple rules…
Spend like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching, and f**k like you’re being filmed! 
Not really an explanation of why we are here, more a philosophy of how to spend your time rather than worrying about why we are here! :P:w00t:
WOW! deep one that! If you think about it too much you’ll go stir crazy my man…
keep busy and “enjoy yourself, its later than you think…”
You are but part of the life cycle of an Ovum.
So balls to all the ‘meaning of life’ stuff. 
I think life its to make life feel important and not just humans but everything thats lives and breathes!
Put that into a file marked “Jobs I’ll never get around to” years ago.
Decided W.T.F. Just get on with it.
Still worried that 42 just might be the answer.
Awesome quote from “Hitchhikers Guide”… 
42 is the answer.
Now, what was the question again?
I think it’s all about time. Without time nothing could exist. Our experience of existence is our experience of time but when we try to analyse what time really means to us it gets bit tricky. We only experience the moment- or our memory of the past moment. On both sides of that moment there is, in effect, nothing. Conceptually it is virtually impossible to live for the moment but physically that is all any of us in reality can do. Life to me is about experiencing our own little slice of time in the space we occupy and trying to make the most of every special second of it.
Alternatively it’s 42
I think that the people posting above are right - in that it’s your personal perception of life that decides for you whether life has any meaning or not - whether it actually HAS meaning is irrelevant - if you feel that your life has meaning - well then it HAS meaning (for you personally) and vice-versa (if YOU feel it has no meaning).However - if you are interested in whether life TRULY has meaning (and here we are talking about physics and metaphysics) then I would say NO, life has no intrinsic meaning. However I am not arrogant enough to think that I am right - this is just my opinion.
e.g. If you are religious (e.g. the Archbishop of Cantebury) you might think that the planet and man’s place on it is part of a divine plan - and therefore has deep and eternal meaning. If you are a scientific rationalist (e.g. Richard Dawkins) you will think that the earth is a product of the physical laws and nature of the universe and has no meaning - you would classiify meaning as simply a cultural and psychological construct that enables human beings to make sense of their existence - with no independent existence outside of this.
I tend to sum up life (on a bad day! ) with a quote from Joseph Conrad’s novel ‘Heart of Darkness’:
Droll thing life is — that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself — that comes too late — a crop of unextinguishable regrets.
yeah…all the time…
i often wonder what ist all about, have a mood swing and clam up for a few days…i normally snap out of it fairly quickly.
having lost my father and a good mate to suicide i know thats never an option. never…
chin up! i have had some **** luck lately but its getting better!!
People who suffer the most with lack of meaning in their life are usually those without a religion. Forget about the worldly Churches, ignore what MAN has turned the religions into, focus on the mess that we have created and you’ll just get the same mess for yourself. Look past that to what the scriptures (which ever ones you choose) really say.
Every Hotel has a Bible in the bed stand, have a read of the chaper of John in the New Testament. Open mind
I have a lot of sympathy with the opinion above. The ‘type’ of religion that I find most appealing tends to be of the mystical kind - e.g. the mystical traditions that in Judaism, Christianity and Islam that have existed outside of the established rabbinical/church/mosque power structures and whose emphasis is on personal spiritual experience rather than adherence to religious laws and commandments - Sufism (a mystical branch of Islam) is an interesting case in point - many of it’s ideas and tenets are compatible and even accord with modern science - yet it is also deeply spiritual and allows freedom of thought and opinion - with the emphasis on peace, love and understanding.
The work of the Sufi poet Ibn Rumi is hugely spiritually uplifiting and it’s message of peace and wisdom has even been a bestseller in the ‘islamaphobic’ USA! 
I guess at the moment I am personally in a transitory position regarding ‘meaning’ - I have to deal rationally with the truth of the harsh physical realities of existence (as we all do) which seem to have no meaning - on the other hand I also find solace in the spiritualism of great ‘souls’ like Rumi.
Peace and Love.
yeah…all the time…
i often wonder what ist all about, have a mood swing and clam up for a few days…i normally snap out of it fairly quickly.
having lost my father and a good mate to suicide i know thats never an option. never…
chin up! i have had some **** luck lately but its getting better!!
I have no idea what you are talking about 
Maybe I should have said forget the squabbles between Catholic -v- Protestant, Jew -v- Muslim etc, forget even the differences between the same branches of the Church of England, thay are all just man’s interpretation of the scriptures and usually they all get in the way of the truth. Sweep away the swarf and look for God 
I was agreeing with you Steve - the physical clutter of established religion - e.g. hierachy, doctrine - the swarf - gets in the way of true spirituality - mystical branches of religion do away with this swarf and encourage a personal experience of God/spirituality unmediated by priests, rabbis or imams. Jewish/Christian/Islamic mystics have never been at odds with each other - but recognise their shared approach - unlike their fundamentalist counter-parts.
see what you’ve started ricky! …