Ask HN: What is the ultimate meaning of life?

No meaning, so we should create our own. Until a meaning is revealed.

Personally, I don't need logic due to personal experience, and yet so much personal experience now makes my faith logical (to me). But my personal experience would be something you'd need to take by faith, if you don't have this personal experience like I do. I'd just point out that such experience is not unique to me.

For me it is to know God and make him known. I am 50 and have been thinking like this for 30 years. It seems even more important than ever for me to know the answer to this question as I may not have another 30 years to ruminate on it further :-)

Hare-brained theory of mine is that God created the universe we know inside of a black hole with the intent of rescuing information (not a known "thing" but entropic information) from it, and we are part of the experiment.

If we acquire the right "bits", we get drawn out of the black hole at the end of the experiment. If we don't, we get left in to ultimately break down into Hawking Radiation. Hell is being left behind, not eternal torment just eventual complete subsumption into entropic decay.

This would explain a lot of things. Miracles? Just tweaking the experiment. Jesus? Sent in to provide some sort of data export connection between the two levels. Original sin? We took on some value or aspect that complicated or corrupted the data export, making us both less and more valuable but requiring a "filter" (presumably death) to determine which data exports have value for the project.

Actual sins? Probably actions that decrease the value of your data, or decrease the value of others' data.

It's all hooey and stuff I imagined, my religious fanfic, so to say, but it's an interesting thought to me and I felt like sharing it, so enjoy.

Well then, what is the meaning of a broom? Is it to sweep? Or to play make believe and use it as a sword?

Meaning is dependent on what you do.

The ultimate meaning? Such redundancy! Meaning shifts as the waves in the ocean. I assure you that meaning will change as you grow older.

But now, let’s explore this question of how to achieve the ultimate meaning of life. Maybe you want an answer from Zen? The way to achieve is to achieve it. You see, there’s no other way of doing a thing than by doing it. You cut potatoes by cutting potatoes. You can’t cut them by brushing your hair.

What is the meaning you want to achieve? Figure that out and do it. How? Do as musicians do. Live for the music. For every note. Don’t hurry to the end because the point of music is to be in the moment and enjoy the melody.