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A Purely Secular Answer to The Meaning to Life In today’s pop-world, there seems to be an infatuation with self-help books. In fact, I recently went to Amazon.com and searched “self-help” and I was given 125,800 results in–book form. These books are strewn with ideas of “goal setting” and “goal orientation” and so on, which are the supposed keys to success in life and the business world. These books are never deep, and are often trashy money makers that never actually answer any of life’s questions. They offer quick fix solutions to problems that often require time and hard work. These books do not ask the true question, of “What is the goal of life? Why am I on this planet?” A seemingly less trashy form of a self help book was written in 523 C.E., by Anicius Boethius, with his The Consolation of Philosophy. In it he asks questions like, “if there is an all powerful, all knowing all loving God, then why is there evil?” He also attempts to give a meaning of life. While Boethius argues that the goal to life is happiness, and that happiness is God, it is more than likely, that the true meaning to life is as simple as procreation and, eventually, death. It is important to talk about the reasons