what is the meaning of life?

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There is none, life is just life. It's just one enormous, and lucky, accident that through natural selection has produced the kind of brains that want a meaning to life.

On 42:

It seems I was wrong, but here is an interesting article.

Life is just waiting. You are always waiting for something. I always find myself waiting for something to happen. I found this website http://hunch.com/meanings-of-life/#. This is my personal goal (http://hunch.com/meanings-of-life/to-le ... y/2227304/), I want to leave behind a great legacy. This means when I die one day I will leave behind a gift which could be knowledge, money or even a house. So right now I'm waiting to become a famous artist. I'm going to be a Picasso

Life only has meaning when you assign meaning to it.

For me, life is just to experience.

Good to here!

It's quite interesting what people have responded with.
Indeed there is no intentional meaning of life, mostly because lifes existence came about through chance.
but there has to be some form of reason behind it, though finding it would make bugger all difference to Anyones life tbh.

I knew someone would say that. It makes more sense than some of the crap people come up with actually.

I call myself an Atheist because I do not believe in religion or worship at all.

I think it is most likely the universe just came about by chance.

It is impossible though to say for certain, the universe itself was not created by a higher being.

Either

a) it was a random coincidence that THE universe exists and is suitable for live to evolve
b)it is part of a limitless multi-verse and we are in one of the universes where it is suitable for life, which a0 fits into as well.
c) some kind of a higher force fine tuned every parameter with the intent of it eventually being suitable for life.

anybody agree or disagree?

If there was a 1/10,000,000,000,000,000 chance of the universe being habitable to life, we would expect to find ourselves in it. Think about it

Agree. How can be prove or disprove a creator of the universe itself though? quite a tricky thing to achieve.

somewhat, I think the idea of manlike deity who experiences anger and jealousy is so ridiculous I can dismiss it out of hand. Deism is somewhat harder, because at least it doesn't imply that we still live in the anthropocentric world of seven hundred years ago.

Considered a gift by some and not a gift by others; today. For thousands of my ancestors, probably, mostly, a brutish, harsh struggle for survival; the way it is for many wild animals and many people in the world today.

Just think, of what the thousands of our ancestors survived through for us to be here. Meaning or no meaning, gift or no gift, it took alot of hard work for us to be here. I'm just glad I was born in 1960, not 10,000 years ago.

It's a pretty humbling thought, but when I think of long term I can't help but to see evolution pulling the strings.

I agree with evolution and I think it can be an awesome thought to know that our genetic makeup is influenced by living things and non living things as far back as science can look.
So it may be probable that in the long run we are talking millions, perhaps billions of the survival of some kind of ancestor. I think it is reasonable to suspect that all life originated from something at the microscopic level.

Some people like to look at the human species as a blip on the radar screen of the existence of life on earth. But, looking at it from an evolutionary perspective it's more likely that our point of origin was similar to all of the other life on the planet. It is a more comforting thought to me to feel connected this way to all life rather than disconnected as a being discrete from all other life on the planet.

And beyond that, within the realm of evolution, what humans refer to as non-living properties of the Universe gave rise to living organisms. Taken this in consideration, there is no separating ourselves from the origin of the Universe and beyond, if there is a beyond.

I was fortunate to be born close to the seashore. As I walked along the seashore the science behind evolution verified my intuition that I was in someway connected to the sea as I was the land, animals, plants and beyond; not only a connectedness but the physical essence of what makes me what I am.

With our ability to understand these awesome realities of life come the responsibility of our collective intelligence. Since we have developed the ability for fusion and fission, it seems possible, although very unlikely, that one day we may develop the ability, not only to destroy the world as we see it, but the whole universe as we perceive it. This would make human life tragically meaningful. Close to impossible, but a sobering thought on the significance of our existence

mediocrity only understands itself, this goes for all intelligence levels. so-called smart and evolved people who chafe at those lesser lights than themselves are in for a karmic awakening later on. so it would be prudent to learn to [at least] tolerate with grace, those who don't "measure up" to one's own standards, as there will always be those inferior-to as well as greater-than oneself. just a thought. "upper classmanship" should stay in human academies of learning, as it has no place in God's greater classroom of this world. we are all in this thing together, whether us mere mortals like it [or even understand it], or not. we are all here to learn at least one soul-stretching thing in life, before we return to light.

whatever you want it to be.

Perspective.

It is the reason for life I have not come to understand.

The perversion of "42" being the meaning of life is a fairly insidious colloquialism, with its roots in occultism. It is one of many "inside jokes" being perpetuated in media.