All the time spent making money and studying in school. Tell me what you are living for? Eventually you will die so then what?
2006-08-03 19:51:16 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-08-03 19:54:31 · answer #1 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I probably am going to be spending a lot of my life working. I don't consider it a waste though. I love what I do, find it intellectually stimulating, and think it would be a good use of my time even if money was not an issue for me. As for the studying, I enjoy that too. I don't see why those are bad things to devote yourself to. Of course I also spend time with friends and developing relationships, but that's probably something you'd accept as a good use of time.
Yes, I plan to die at some point. Then... nothing much. Hopefully I'll have lived a good life. I would say that decomposition would be next, but I'm a chemist and I don't know what kinda of preservation effect the chemical exposure will have on my body.
2006-08-03 19:59:40 · answer #2 · answered by Phil 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good question. I've been thinking about this a lot lately myself.
The best answer that I can come up with is:
If we don't spend our time studying in school, making money, etcetera, then what's the alternative?
Sit around and do nothing all our lives?
We're going to die whether we do nothing or something, so we might as well do something.
2006-08-03 20:15:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sheesh! So what are YOU living for then? I didn't make up this silly planet's rules-I got born into them as they were already going on. HOWEVER- there is good news for us still. We are grown up now and get to start changing those rules!
My fellow human, I believe you are making the mistake of thinking that to Be Alive, you need a Reason to Live. This is a nice thought, but really isn't a requirement is it? Just find what joy in it that you can for yourself. If you refuse to find that joy, then you may as well stick around, since it is all over just as you say-maybe you can luck out anyway.
If it is the Meaning Of Life you want, than here it is for you; The meaning to your life is just One Thing, and that One Thing is completely up to You to select. This is a pretty good deal, I would say! So what 'gets your rocks off', the One Thing that would make you WANT to stick around despite everything else? For me it is being here on Yahoo Answers. (Do you think I'll get a million points for that plug?)
Ride on the Roller Coaster, dude. Don't complain about the line you are waiting in for it, cause THAT is what made you ask this question.
2006-08-03 20:14:36 · answer #4 · answered by matenmoe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The conception of annihilation is a factor in human degradation, a cause of human debasement and lowliness, a source of human fear and abjection. It has been conducive to the dispersion and weakening of human thought whereas the realization of existence and continuity has upraised man to sublimity of ideals, established the foundations of human progress and stimulated the development of heavenly virtues; therefore it behoves man to abandon thoughts of non-existence and death which are absolutely imaginary and see himself ever living, everlasting in the divine purpose of his creation. He must turn away from ideas which degrade the human soul, so that day by day and hour by hour he may advance upward and higher to spiritual perception of the continuity of the human reality. If he dwells upon the thought of non-existence he will become utterly incompetent; with weakened will-power his ambition for progress will be lessened and the acquisition of human virtues will cease.
(Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith - Abdu'l-Baha Section, p. 265)
2006-08-04 03:13:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am living for today, and to live it beautifully to the fullest.
Carpe Diem.
That is because I do not know when I will die. It could be anytime.
2006-08-03 19:55:26 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Birth and Death are not of our choice, but the living between these inevitable events are ours. Let us lead a life, that is most satisfying to us, living upto our potentials, and spread sweetness and light, to all around, in the course of our life.
2006-08-03 20:06:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will die, but until than I am going to enjoy all beauties of the Earth.
2006-08-03 19:58:41 · answer #8 · answered by Karolina D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think what some of us need to do is come out of our ordinary shell and start doing something we don't normally do. too many of us don't do much about causes that are in dire need of our attention. maybe then we could live a life less ordinary if we just stepped out.
2006-08-03 20:11:38 · answer #9 · answered by xgoldeniisx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live because I do not want to die.
2006-08-03 19:56:40 · answer #10 · answered by Arsh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm providing the service of displacement.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacement_%28psychology%29
2006-08-03 19:55:24 · answer #11 · answered by Frau Blücher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋