The meaning of life is whatever you give it.

People aren't wearing enough hats...

The meaning of life is satisfaction - not to be mistaken for happiness. Satisfaction is as interpretative As Good and Evil.

“If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.” - Carl Sagan

It's a journey where everyone knowingly or not, will find purpose in their own way. Your purpose is not anybody's else purpose..... For some, a purposeless life is their path. Some are born to lead, some to follow. You don't have to have meaning, you just have to try to find it...then things happen.

I agree. There is no meaning of life. There is only meaning in our own experience and the relationship between us and others/things.

Gil, that's pretty much the consensus of opinion of the more than 40 responses. Referring to the universe, a writer friend of mine said, "What meaning can it have. I just is."

I think the problem i have with even thinking about this is my head hurts with all the information about all the people in this world and all their differences. 7 Billion I can't even encompass it - my brain hurts -and then all teh different beliefs approx 4 thousand and two hundred religions - I can't think of any meaning that would mean anything given even those first two variables. I wouldn't even know where to start about giving the universe meaning

What Mr. Natural said.

life has no meaning or purpose in the universe, thats just being sentimental. we have no purpose other than the distribution of atoms,

The anthropocentric view requires that life has a meaning, and of course it doesn't.
The planet does not need us.
Life kind does not need us.
Life has a purpose, all life does.
The purpose is to keep your dna going, and while alive, be what you are and become what you are capabable of becoming.
We have passed the tipping point, the best we can do is delay the final crunch and save what we can.

It is so subjective, so I think I'll pass.

To me the meaning of LIFE writ large is simply to evolve. For humans evolving means to aquire wisdom or knowledge. Again, to me that knowledge must be such as it helps to sustain life not destroy it as we are doing. Thank you for the inclusion of anthropocentrism. This is something a lot of non-theists share with the religious people. My late partner had a question for her 2nd graders which too many adults get wrong: What is more important, people or dirt?

I read Heart Sutra and became nihilistic. For a while I felt empty. There is nothing but void. There is no meaning of life. Then recently I remembered a phrase from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Not exact but ot goes something like "Enjoy the beauty of this parlor without dropping the oil on the spoon"

My take on this is, "Keep your ends meet and just enjoy". Yup.

Because there is no meaning of life, I can just enjoy this ride until I kick the bucket. Life is a festival!

Oh then why do I think I should still be altruistic?
So other people can enjoy their lives and they don't ruin my joy. Yeah, just like staying in line for the movie so everyone can enjoy the movie without fighting.

I think that's about it.

The best way of saving the planet is to lose the humans.there isnt a meaning because its one in a million luck that it even happened.