it is already said, the word of 42.
^.^

What is is about humans that make us so curious as to why we are here? If the meaning of life was just to be happy, scientists, artists and musicians etc. would not have this mad desire to create and to understand things. Creation for it's own sake does not create happiness. Have you ever seen an artist trying to give birth to their vision? How mad it makes them, lost, frustrated, and disconnected with the world? Or give actual birth? Oh how painful that is... It is not something that you can roll up into a neat little philosophy, or catch phrase. A reason to live and the meaning of life are not exactly the same thing. I don't know why we are here, or what the meaning of it all is, but it is sure nice to be here...

To paraphrase some of my philosophy notes:
It is self-awareness. We cannot help doing so, asking things like "what is death?" "What's the meaning if life?" "Is doing act A or act B morally correct?" etc, is the "price we pay" for our enhanced self-awareness. A realization of one's death for example; is the other side of the coin, the necessary correlate to having a self.
by the way what is the Self? http://www.crunchyroll.com/showforumtopic?id=1040

If people believe in the existence of God then people should also believe there is a meaning to life. I have no doubt in my mind that God exists. Look at the structure of the DNA. Its design is so intricate and complex that it is calculated that a chain of DNA small enough to fill a teaspoon has the capacity to store all the information contained in all the books ever written! Such an amazing structure could have never occurred by chance. Let alone the creation of the universe and everything in it. In fact Francist Crick and James Watson after discovering the DNA, (being confirmed dawirnists themselves) admit such a structure as complicated as the DNA could have never occurred by a mere coincidence.

Therefore I see the existence of God to be undeniable. An so if God does exist so must there be a reason for him to create us.

^ Weak argument (not saying you're wrong, but the way you're presenting is flawed). If you want to elaborate more about it do it here please
http://www.crunchyroll.com/showforumtopic?id=186
(I'm just taking precautions because I don't want this thread to turn into a religious debate )

Committing Suicide is considered a sin in many religions and therefore increasing there chance to go to hell.

Also its human nature to miss and sadden at the loss of a loved one despite how strong ones belief is. There is no law in religion commanding us to not be sad, that would just be inhumane.

Wait a minute, did I miss something? I know death is a part of life, but how did committing suicide enter a topic about the meaning of life? Unless the meaning of life is eventually dying, which personally I find depressing. Just because it happens does not mean that is all there is.

Uh Crick was a self proclaimed agnostic, leaning towards atheism. Heck, I like the guy , when he deduced the double-helix structure of dna he was on tabs. I'd like to see things backing up those bits about books and crick on coincidence. Also, just to let you now, over 95% of the members of the national academy of science disagree with you on that part about God being undeniable.

If I made responses like this to every post however, this thread would be half mine...

To die. That's all. People live to die, there's nothing else for us to do. Whatever excuses we make up for us to be on this earth, the only thing we all do in the end is die.

the meaning of life huh?

Well, I believe that i have narrowed it down to 3 possibilities.

1: Man is inexorably racing towards death from the moment he is born . Many spend most of their time worrying about dying , and ways to avoid it , or to put it off . It crosses the mind of every sentient being at some point. So here is the first possibility.

Man exists to avoid death and fight for every moment .

2. Again , death . It is final , the end of the journey . It is the one true inevitability in life .

The purpose of life, is death .

3: the third is comprised of the first 2 .

Man exists to live, learn , and die , the purpose is nothing more than the journey itself , and is wasted when we spend too much time trying to find reason in it.

I do not know if there is any specific reasoning for life but I believe we can make life specific for ourselves.

We are living and we have to live untill we die. What we do in between those lines is completely up to us and we have the capability to make it worth something.

the meaning of life is to live and be happy. think of it this way, there is not point in NOT living! ^^

I don't know what the real meaning of life is but I try to live everyday as happy as I can. I try but there are those days when everything I plan for goes wrong. I like my life to be as simple as possible but it isn't.

life = to live and be as happy as possible. then when it's your time to go you go.
thats how life is....you come and go. so live life to the fullest
until it all fizzes away into darkness.

Hmmm....I'm not so sure. I'd like to ask a question - do you believe in fate? Do you believe that humans have no choice? If you don't, I'd say that pretty much makes your argument void. This, I believe, is due to the huge amount of chance we experiance every day of our lives.
Here is a simple example. Say, someone stops you and talks to you. Then, you say goodbye, walk off and slip on a wet floor and break your neck. Imagine the web of chance leading to this moment. Why is the floor wet? Imagine the amount of people involved in this, the exact specifications needed, the intricate timing, required to bring you to that exact moment, everything from the amount of time you stopped to talk, to the position of your foot as it hit the ground. Does this seem like mere chance to you? It seems to me like it was planned out. It seems like it has structure. And so does DNA. Its incredibly, mind bogglingly complex, it seems like it could never be chance. Yet, if you believe in free-will (and if you believe in God, you probably do) then how can you say it was not (possibly) chance? It seems to me that the amount of pure chance that goes on everyday is just as complicated, if not more so, than DNA.