Looking for knowledgable individuals to assist in locating the one true answer. (No christian fanatics please. Even I know that denile to another becouse of his/her positive beliefs is not the one true way.) I know that its a simple question, but I cannot accept a simple answer. So feel free to ramble on as long as you like. Your opinion is siriously appriciated!!!!!!
2006-07-16 08:18:31 · 25 answers · asked by leaf 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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2006-07-16 08:22:34 · answer #1 · answered by Thomas H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What does "meaning of life" really mean, anyway? Isn't better to ask "what is the purpose of life", or even better, "where can meaning be found in life"? To those questions, I might attempt an answer.
Purpose in life:
If life has some purpose (and there must be some sort of god in order to endow it with purpose), then it would have to be something that everyone can achieve--even people in wheelchairs, the deaf, the comatose...even children who die after 3 days. After all, why would any creator make any being who (through no fault of his own) can't possibly achieve the purpose for which they were intended? So what's the one thing everyone can do?
Be. I think if people have a purpose in life, this must be it. We are here to experience all the joys and sorrows of existence. The comatose are here to experience what life is like in a coma. There's nothing else that everyone can do.
Meaning in life:
Well, that's a bit easier, isn't it? YOU give life meaning by saying that it has meaning. If driving down a barren stretch of country road at 3AM with the windows open and your honey beside you has meaning for you, then you have just endowed your own life with meaning. The only people with meaningless lives are the ones who refuse to see any.
Mine isn't the only answer, obviously, but I hope it gives you something to think about.
2006-07-16 08:55:24 · answer #2 · answered by rabid_scientist 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I asked this question on yahoo some time ago and got an answer with which I was satisfied.
Their is no single meaning of life for everybody.
Each person has to find his own meaning and live with what suits him/her best.
I myself elaborated on it as follows :
Imagine you are sitting in a park alone.
You are at peace with yourself and the surrounding.
Suddenly you realise that you have the power to do everything you want. Everything. (just by magic)
Well then you will not just sit there right? You will go out to use your power in the way you desire - you want.
Here is the key point, you desire and you want. We all do things we wish to do. We can do what we want but we will have to face the consequences.
Now come back to reality. You do not have the so called powers.
Still you will do what you desire to do - but only in a limited way.
That will be the meaning of your life.
The force is with you - use it.
2006-07-16 16:49:41 · answer #3 · answered by vinod s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're not being pissy about it because you're being taken advantage of and neglected. I have to say he's taking too many trips to be comfortable with. Weekend trips are one thing, but... 4 days skiing, 9 days fishing, week long hunting and two weeks for work and you're at home with a 16 month old? It sounds to me like ever since the baby's been born, he's been finding one excuse after another not to be home, and he apparently doesn't plan on stopping. I'd say you have a very crucial decision to make. I'd be tired of that crap too.
2016-03-27 07:52:09 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was asked this once as a young working man. I think I came up with the best answer for life on earth as we know it here and now. When I think of the meaning of life on earth, I don't know (just like everybody else) if "life" continues after death, or what is heaven and hell, will we get more than one chance to live again? But, the here and now life each one of us has to consciencly create for ourselves a path of health and happiness, security and belonging, the path of least resistance for survival.
We were all tought the basics of life being - FOOD, WATER and SHELTER - so I use this as an example of extreme life. So lets think about some forms of life, it could be anything (dogs, rats, mice, flies, etc) but for this lets say human life. Have a group of about 100 lives living together with the same options and opportunities and only give food and water to allow half of them to survive. Before anything happens lets think what kind of meaning this would create for the fortunate half that could aquire enough food and water to survive, and then what about the meaning of life for the unfortunate half.
This expansive and difficult question gets easier to answer when you get to the root of the question. Too me the best answer to this question would sound like: "The true meaning of life is survival on the path of least resistance and hopefully includes good health and happiness, security and belonging, and creating an new life by birth to another part of your soul that will continue on its own path of least resistance."
2006-07-16 10:38:01 · answer #5 · answered by sir_ninjarafiki 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you ask a question, know the obvious answer and then look for some other answer that will sound true? hey, am sorry if you don't want chritian fanatics, but am one of them. and i know even if men say that there are many ways to skin a cat, God says there is only one way to Him. yep, muslim gon give u this, buddhist, anyone. but if yo real serious bout the meaning of life-- i know what it is, and it is walking in the will of God for your life. if u believe in God, it will help greatly, if you are an evolutionist, then sorry. i will stop here. but if not. God's word is is the only documented proof about God and his will. if you believe that then you also have heard of the man Jesus Christ, who 'they say' died and rose again. well it is true. ask yourself this one question, why is it that you can talk about anything or anyone with a religious background but when it comes to Christ, everyone turns their back? Know why? coz Jesus made the claim that he was son of God. and that he was God. Men love fellow men, Mohammed, Buddha, Confuscious, they look at them as examples of a good life but mention the Godman, they say how can a man we saw and talked with try to think he is greater than us? anyway, bottom line is once you are in Christ Jesus, you will know the meaning of life... will be obliged to corresspond with you. sometimes i wonder why people categorise God as religion, yet God is the very essence of man's existence and wat does man do? Put God up for debate? what happens when you die? and find that the God you put on debate has put you up for judgement. you heard all that he had to say and shunned him. and well, the life we live is the active life we have for decision making, after that-game over. think about that.
2006-07-16 08:36:03 · answer #6 · answered by nephili 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
even tho im only 15, I think I really no the true meaning in life. My life that is. And its doing all I can do to help the next person. Thats something I think we shud all consider, taking the time out to teach or help someone. It can be a kid a peer and/or an elderly just somebody. Life is to good to waste find something you luv and share it with the world
2006-07-16 08:41:59 · answer #7 · answered by Tip :) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The new sciences of "Self organization and Adaptive Complexity model human nature as an evolving nonlinear dynamic of multi stable states on the critical edge of deterministic chaos. Creative adaptation and evolution itself are optimal at this edge of chaos.
Complex Adaptive Systems, are those organisations in nature that are able to maintain their integrity and evolve over time by interacting in an adaptive manner with the enviroment. All living organisms are complex adaptive systems. In the real world of ever shifting nature most things are not in thermodynamic equilibrium. In the natural world practically everything is an, open system and far-from-thermodynamic-equilibrium. Everything moves and changes. Far-from-thermodynamic equilibrium systems evolve from the continuous flow of free energy, matter and information into and out of the system. All forms of life are classical examples of open far-from-thermodynamic equilibrium systems. Priogene(1980) calls any system, such as life, that maintains its equilibrium by using up energy a, dissipative structure. They are dissipative in the sense that they use high energy sources to do some form of useful work to create the information and organisation of life at the cost of degrading or dissipating the high energy into a lower form energy and returning it to the environment. This degraded or dissipated energy has been reduced to a more random state (that is greater disorder, of higher entrophy and lower information ). Life creates itself by doing the useful work of metabolizing food (burning up high energy sources) in order to increase its own information, complexity and self-organisation. Life is a far from equilibrium dissipative system.
This may not be an answer to your question, but I hope it will deepen your reflection on, what is the meaning of life?
2006-07-16 09:44:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, the meaning of life is beyond anything that any one of mankind can possibly imagine, feel, think, see or understand. The meaning is something that we could never comprehend. Something that would probably scare us to death if we knew. No one knows because I think that we are not meant to know until we have completed it. The meaning is something we would never in a million years be able to guess or figure out. It's something we cannot relate to or have a concept of at this time.
2006-07-16 08:24:28 · answer #9 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the meaning of life is to experience. I believe we are here to embrace this time and experience. Falling in love with life and what it has to offer us. Experience is the only thing I am sure of in this life. I do not know if you are real or even if I am real. But, I do know that I am experiencing myself being here and I am experiencing writing this to you. This answer brought me alot of peace when I happend upon it a few years ago. My life has been far more enjoyable and full of alot of peace and joy. Just my few thoughts on the subject.
2006-07-16 10:35:26 · answer #10 · answered by meluusinee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best thing that is closest to an actual philosphy on the subject I have ever encountered on the subject came from Snoopy the Beagle via Charles Schultz:
"The secret of life is to reduce your worries to a minimum."
So quit worring about what the secret is, because the secret is to enjoy life to the fullest safely while you can!
Go see a movie, read a book, watch TV, talk to your friends, whatever...
Just start living!
2006-07-16 08:30:55 · answer #11 · answered by leehoustonjr@prodigy.net 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋