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  • The most fascinating question to ponder

  • Deny self and serve others as much as possible...

  • I know the purpose of my life. Love God and keep his commandments. Love your neighbor as yourself. I think man has a cursed condition in that we are led by our desires and they are currently out of control which makes service God and loving others hard. We spend our time giving ourselves pleasure and striving for things that give us fame, fortune and pleasure. Learning to change being controlled by our nature (desires) and life a God focused life is what my purpose is. Beloved144

  • Don't have children until you figure out the PURPOSE of life.

  • this is less of a documentary then a bunch of reactions to a question, with some mediocre footage and editing to boot. not to criticize too harshly, keep working at it and make more, practice approaches perfection.

  • anna at 13:12 makes me very disappointed in humanity

  • i think life is like a game. you have 1 life and you can do anything in the world! and god made the rules and scripted his game. the physics, the wonders, everything! and the players (humans) are the ones updating the game. updating meaning like discovering fire, electricity, smelting, and all the other things we have accomplished. The reproducing part (having babies) means "New Life" and that i think is the way the game keeps on going on and on! but god will wipe the game out and make a new 1

  • I think Dina from San Fran has the best answer. A life of servitude has the most value, though it seems to have no impact, it holds so much more weight than to simply seek happiness.

  • WOW,,,,,,

    

  • look at it this way, life has no meaning as a whole. but life to the individuals is something else, the action of the individuals effects others around them. its fine that there is no meaning to life because live doesn't need a reason to exist. life simply exist because of trials and errors in the elements that eventually led to life. because of our human nature we attempt to give life meaning, but in reality it doesn't need meaning. simply live people ><

  • killing jews made hitler happy ... all these people say being happy ... but on what expense ?

  • some of these answers are just random bullshit

    

  • not a single person in the videos gave the correct answer.

  • @imgonnadiesoon wrong Robert Mount holly gave a pretty solid answer though it wasn't a complete answer. tell me what is your definition of life?

  • my meaning of life is that i dont have a meaning seriously................its not a negative view to life but just a simply life

  • American women are so thick as shit. How unattractive.

  • The meaning of life can not be to think of what is.

  • What is the meaning of a blow job?

  • @365to173repubsPWNED To pleasure your penis???

  • @Dude11191 I believe I concur

  • Why i am here what's my meaning of life? To help people to choose what truly right from wrong, and i try not force them into what they dont want to do, giving freedom/ free will to live. I said same goes to you, " what is your meaning of life?" "Why do you continually work everyday tirelessly for a piece of this world even losing your soul in doing so"

  • MY personal meaning is to do whatever you please and push through whatever stops you.

  • @LloydBanksizPLK Well, it worked well for Hitler lol jk haha

  • Great Doc, exposes a side of us that we never really show, or live by. We are all people. doing what we can. Happening to be Conscious now. Exploring what we are.

  • This documentary showed me how simplistic, selfish, and how stupid people really are. Thanks.

  • This documentary showed me how simplistic, selfish, and how stupid people really are. Thanks.

  • @TranshumanCyborg God didn't create conditions (at least the ones your refering to)He created the Universe,included the man with free will.What your seeing as condition is the free will exercised by people...far from the best way but it's part of the evolving conciousness of mankind.At least thats what I think..carymgc didn't answer

  • the meaning of life i think is devlopment. rather that be devloping your mind, body, and spirtual out looks. ppl are always trying to get better and the reason why i think we do that is cuz we want to be rememberd and looked upon nicely. the way i think im going to devlop into what i strive for is just keep trying and experincing new things.

  • "I have come that you may have life, and have it to the fullest."-Jesus (John 10:10) "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent"-Jesus (John 17:3, NIV)..... I promise... He is the answer and the meaning of life. You can accept true life through Him or reject it. Today it is your choice. Will you chose life? Much Love.

  • Hi Mr.Castaa can you give me the artist and title of this song?

  • Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve

  • This is an outstanding documentary. But the meaning of life, sadly, will never be discovered until death...if even then. You can spend so much time thinking about this, but there are no "for sure" answers.

    I'm thinking of doing something similar to this. How did you go about getting so many people to cooperate?

  • @AsphaltClips I just asked a lot people if they wanted to be in my project. And also told them they could refuse to have their footage used if they didn't like their response.

  • @AsphaltClips Oh and thanks. :)

  • The more meaning you make of life, the more suffering you'll probably encounter. Life is empty and meaningles, really. I live life as it happen, neither expecting or anticipating but not without goal and plan. If anyone want to ask me what is my meaning of life and I must assign an answer to it. My meaning of life is probably the power to live every moment in total awareness of life. Be present to everything and not be affected by anything.

  • I don't get it! If most people have it right on most impotant life;s things, then why is the World in such bad situation everywhere?

  • I've identified my lifestyle path as that f an academic. I don't want to be one, but my personality seems reflective of it just the same. I intend to find and disseminate new information for the good of humanity. these people int he video who said "love... help others...be happy" are really saying in a less elaborate way to protect and proliferate the species for the collective. Above my role in society stated above, serving God is the reason we were created, and it is my number one purpose.

  • Look inside myself and see what is within me.  It's within you too. Nice doco...! x

  • Most likely there is no meaning to life. Even if there is, our current senses are inadequate to understand it.

    The best answer that we could have with our current level of understanding is -- " to survive and procreate".

  • Sounds a bit like "protect the species and yourself"

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  • I enjoyed your documentary very much, food for thought, 5 stars

  • awsome video. honest open and insightful people you've found. very possitive affect on me, thank you =)

  • Thanks. That means a lot.

  • It's definately a great vid. Do you travel? If so, you should make the same vid in other countries......more food for thought.

    But lemme congratulate you on this one.

  • He's right your vid is awesome

  • Thank you

  • To persist though C.R.A.P (criticism, rejection, ASS WHOLES & pressure) :)

  • I notice a disproportionately large number of attractive young women interviewees. Are you putting male libido above the quality of the surveys? A good researcher should include balanced viewpoints whether they are male, female, young, old, different races, handicap, sexual orientation etc.

    The question is great but it seems like the majority of the answers are rather shallow?

  • I had my answer right away-

    to experience,to grow, and create positive energy. Energy has as much infulence as electricity!!

  • Life is a lottery you cant change the life you have been given so live it to the full and be as happy as possible dont sit around regretting and bitching about it of course there will be people better off than you and there will be people worse of accept the life you have and live it!

  • what we should really should ask is why do we exist not in as us humans i mean as all of existence.

  • Castaa how'd you get to all those places that easy and what do you think is the meaning of life.but side from that great vid.

  • Thanks. Those places are where the people are from originally. All the filming was shot in San Francisco.

  • Thanks. I use the the free video editor, Windows Movie Maker.

  • i think life has no sense by the fact that we died; there's not enough time to learn a subject totally; nobody gets bored of life and no matter what we do we haven't time to enjoy it fully especially that we're all conditionned by the collective values imposed;we generally can't do what could make us the more happy during our lifetime

  • I think more than looking for our "Meaning of Life", we should focus on "Live for a Meaning".

  • Perhaps a question - if you were alone in the universe - would the question be moot?

  • east to convert oxygen into carbon dioxide

  • is that a maserati at 20.56?

  • I don't know who that is but probably not if they are on YouTube. These are all just random people I asked.

  • haha...no you misunderstood me ;)

    i meant the car in the background

    lol

  • Its an old jag xk convertible

  • Easy question, the answer is to find Islam

  • outstanding work.

    thank you.

  • life has no meaning. when i stop and think about it it only makes me more depressed. love , money power impact on human lifes has no meaning in the end. we live and we struggle through it and then we die . nothing exciting really. i dunno im very confused as of right now and the more i think about the meaning of life the more i understand that there isn't really one. its like we're just a mistake in the universe that happened.

  • i agree... when one truly thinks about this question, the more you understand that their isn't an answer.. and that is quite disturbing... any answer that you come up with will ultimately mean nothing in the end.. humans do not have the capability to think outside space and time.

  • I think you're forgetting the key component of the question: personal. Life may have no objective meaning, but it's the personal meaning to which we ascribe it which is of true importance, both in this question and, more importantly, in our lives. It's possible that we are just a mistake in the universe that merely happened, so what of it? What do you make of it now that you're here?

  • well said Schonmp.

  • samthezicke

    The "meaning" is, there is no meaning. Find peace with that, and the meaning is clear.

  • omg !! look at their reaction !!! its like they never ask themeselfs that question !!!! i can't believe that a 26 or 30 years old personn never did that !!!!!!!

  • my personal meaning of life is to understand why I am here, and to persue self fulfillment in a way that will benefit the world. To become enlightened and balanced between the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of my life. To ultimately understand the meaning of life and come to God :Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. (carl jung)

  • Watch my video response.

    It's the one in the green btw.

  • your a pretty depressing person :/. I just what you say is not true and that there is a afterlife

  • all of my thinking and trying to figure out the meaning of life has taught me this. Any conflict that has ever happend or will happen has one thing incommon, there is always atleast one intelligence who is trying to accomplish something or is trying to keep something from happening. and the thing that decides what will occur is only the movement of physics, and thats why everything is survival of the fittest.

  • that's also why every animal goes through the same conflicts: fighting for its life, trying to reproduce, why they share the same emotions like if you hit them they'd get mad. or why they like it if you give them food. it's because that's just how our brains are built up and work. it's all just physics.

  • the person you think you are is only memory of yourself, your likes dislikes, personality, etc. but all that those are is just memory, that's why theres no such thing as time and thats why there can never be an afterlife, because you don't really exist. It's all just memory. a physical act.

  • religion cannot be right because it makes you fight your natural urges like lust, jeolosy, wanting to kill someone if you're really angry, etc... They are all just actions from a physical brain that has been constructed over time by no intelligence, that's why the same conflicts reoccure each and every generation, it's because this is the way it every could be.

  • THERES NO SUCH THING AS GOOD OR EVIL.

  • IT'S ALL JUST MEMORY.

  • Ok BUT... what in the hell started all of this . Can you create something from nothing? Magicians try it , but we all now they are cheating... Tell me how something can come from NOTHING. That is the real question , and we wont understand it until we experience it. We aren't programmed to understand it.

  • and that is why theres no meaning of life

  • Non of you really exist

  • It seems all I do all my life is seperate "the good stuff" from "the crap." It seems that's what all forms of life do. Seperate stuff. I guess deep down all we are is a bunch of cells, and cells interact with the world through the membrane, which is a filter, to keep out crap, and let in good stuff.

  • i like what the women at 0:52 has to say

  • my personal meaning of life is finding out what im here for

  • What's the meaning of life?

    Just torture yourself until you're so depressed you want to die, then you'll know the answer.

  • the girl at 10:07 is cute, I like what she has to say to.

  • that hot girl at 13.11 looks so innocent

  • The Meaning of Life: To survive to see the goodness in the darkness and to engender goodness in those with two open eyes around you; to parry reason for goodness; to value life and the words of others; to extend a smile and loving hand; to tread softly, quietly but nonetheless to speak clearly; to give love, to receive love, to build love; to cheerish internal beauty in this wide land; to give to that which you believe in - but at all times humbly, softly as beacon worthy of a ripple of change.

  • read the quran to find out why we are here on earth. do good in obedience to God and regain paradise

  • Many define their life's meaning simply from what they desire. In order to truly find life Meaningful, you must go beyond "personal meaning". To find True Meaning you have to look beyond yourself and what YOU would prefer. Life is not about you. It's about us and it.

  • The hot girl at 3:40 was the closest, I think.

    "Dream" or "Dimension" or "Creation"

  • Uh NO....I don't think so.

  • It seems like for the most people today the purpose of life is to eat have fun and sleep. For my ancestors, it was quite different.

  • I too was very saddened by many peoples answer and my theory holds true for many of this current age. If you can tackle the truth nor understand of prove it, make your own rules and therefore your own meaning.

    For many it's pointless to think about the pointlessness of life.

    But I accept that I received life, through no coincidence, and I treasure the giver god.

    For there is a truth and yet many are incapable of accepting it

  • woah!! the girl in 3:50 just did it for me, she just gave me the last piece of the puzzle: it is what ever you want it to be, and what ever makes you happy while the perfect ness of this world lasts you, taking in consideration the respect for yourself and the people around you. ;)

  • what was the name of the song at the start of the video?

  • The Verve's - Bitter Sweet Symphony

  • Thank you

  • learning...on human encounter...preserving the planet or SAVE IT from what we´ve done to it! That should be everybodys meaning of life,specially over there in the white house:(

  • I know my meaning of life, I just figured it out...but I feel like I would taint it's meaning if I went around telling everyone.

  • nice film, its interesting to see what other people are thinking about after it promotes global curiosity.

  • awh my quite the question. lol

  • yeah, i never knew so many people were so stupid

  • I started thinking: i just need to have fun without hurting anyone. But then i thought, i want to create too, i want to make music, and have children, and travel. and what about contributing something?, helping my fellow man?. Finally i came up with this:

    I want to explore every single possibilty of what i can do in this earth, that doesnt involve hurting anyone, or being unkind.

  • I noticed the trafic noice at the back ground in alot of the interview.The Balance of the Life.

  • Life is easy, have fun and do what you want aslong as you do hurt anyone its all good. all the money in the world wont mean crap to you when your gone

  • are you ready... for what it truely is... what its all about

    nothing

    life has no meaning appart from the one you give it

    What a question.. What an answer...

    Reletivity

  • It's a combination of all those factors and the apparent fact that "attractive" people are more likely to agree to be filmed.

  • interesting you say that...an inherent bias on the filmmaker or the fact that more "attractive" people like displaying their own vanity? or both?

  • oops you are the filmmaker, haha

  • yeh man, good idea. I've just worked in Thailand, Asia for a year and planning to go back. I'm planning to go back and I'll consider doing this. yet, everyone watching it needs to learn Thai then :P

  • I'm agnostic, God I believe does exist though as a supernatural power (still trying to figure it out). Its not necessarily giving your money away, since you practically cannot live without money within today's society, but more of how you USE your money. E.g. charity, helping others, supporting, giving love, etc. Money doesn't make happy, but you do need it. My plan of help is going to thailand helping poor children on the street making something out of their life through football and education.

  • life is a pesimistic, sadistic , dramatic, glourious , antagonistic, unbeilibly complex bassically

  • but whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? :P

  • life is full of tests, ups, downs, happiness, sadness, loss, gain, spirituality, learning, loving, hating, etc...

  • But whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? ;)

  • BEAUTIFUL! BEAUTIFUL! BEAUTIFUL!

  • MAN! This is exquisite. I agree...

  • 9 minutes into part 2 - I threw up my mouth a little bit watching this, did you find anyone that was not on ACID? I hope the end is something inspiring from JOHN WAYNE or I may kill myself...

  • I can scientifically prove that god does not exist and what the point of human life is, this is no joke. I figured it all out. I'm working on a long ass essay, I'll add it to the "Meaning Of Life" page on wikipedia when I'm done maybe in a couple of weeks, it's gonna tell you how there is no such thing as time and all the stuff that people cannot answer with their stupid religions.

  • I really like your attempt to make people think about their convictions, and it is very interesting to see the outcome. How about doing something like that regarding ethics?

  • Thanks. I'll keep that idea for consideration. What type of ethical systems?

  • can I send you a PowerPoint presentation with lots of ideas? Need your e-mail address.

  • A simple & effective way of sharing basic thoughts, feelings & values held by most. I don't mean simple in the technical sense, as this video (pts 1&2) obviously took time, effort & editing. A truly eye opening & uplifting experience. I should tell you that I intend to imitate the project. In fact, I think that everyone should, in order to both understand themselves and the other souls that surround them during their mortal lives. TRULY SUPERB, BRAVO!

  • Thank you sincerely for your positive words. I look forward to seeing your work when finished.

    I talk about my film's production in my director's commentary companion video. That might provide some help for your effort.

  • i love this...bt what really comes across is the number of people who barely give it a thought in their daily life..and the similarities between what the people who do think about it say

  • Thanks.  Getting people to stop and contemplate was one of the documentary's goals.

  • Hey Jon... great job putting this together.

  • Thanks Chris!

  • Very nice job.

  • Thanks

  • Since I don't know of a supernatural meaning,my person meaning of life is to pass on my genes, if possible, help with evolution of our species, and know as an individual the meaning of life is the meaning I give it.

  • I admire the way you capture your guests thinking and grasping for a coherent answer to a complex question. You're my favorite YouTube director, you always make me think. Nice job Jon, love your work!

  • wow, where did you get so many people .. did you film this all yourself? you travel a lot..

    a great documentary man

  • I did all filming and editing. Sadly, I didn't travel to those places. The location is where the interviewee is from originally.

    I got so many people because I asked so many people. :)

  • cool cool :)

  • I just recorded my response so that will be slightly edited and uploaded tomorrow. Hopefully.

  • Good to hear. Make sure you add it to Part 1 with the others if you can.

  • Oh you want it added to Part 1 then? Alrighty.

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