What is the option?

Question

What would you do if you know there is no possibility to have a real life?
If you know life is going to be end without any value of life just you are going to live as a sign of your existence so what would you do? Are you going to live for the sake of religious beliefs or are you going to wait for a miracle? Simple meaning of life is born and death so what would you do? I do not encourage you to take your own life but looking for an answer of our live in this corrupted world. Injustice, humiliation, exploitation, discrimination…..no peace….only the trouble ….what is the meaning of our lives?

Answer 1

We have several options. We can do nothing, we can complain and wonder why things are the way they are, we can leave earth to see what comes next or we can put effort into making things better for everyone. That would give your life value.

The link to the parable I'm including explains it well.

Answer 2

I do not understand what you mean by "there is no possibility to have a real life." I know that there are many things I wish I could do, but I can't. Some of the things I wish I can do are possible if I work at them; others are just impossible, either from physical limitations or from circumstances.

Christians often identify three religious virtues -- faith, hope and love. It sounds like you are lacking hope right now.

One of the most frustrating things about life is that there are so many things wrong, as you mention, and that our individual efforts do not seem to make much of a difference. That's where faith and hope come in -- despite not seeing the immediate effects of our actions, we must have faith and hope that our good deeds will outlive us and make a difference. I admit, this is not a logical argument I am making, it is really a religious argument.

I do not believe that the meaning of our lives is simply birth and death -- I think the our conscious and intentional actions really count.

Answer 3

I have also wondered about this. If you go through life and there is no Judgment or Heaven or Hell, if you encounter a lost animal or child along your path at a late hour , would you just kill or hurt that being? We seem to have a conscience, so maybe we are being tested. I would rather try and do the right thing, even if there is no payoff or meaning in the end, we must try to have compassion, I think there must be a Higher Plan.... I hope so .....

Answer 4

Your question is long and maybe not as well formed as it could be.

However, I've taken your last sentence "what is the meaning of our lives?" as being the core of your query.

I could easily say that the meaning of life is to have a life of meaning; but you're no further ahead, are you?

Let's then rephrase the question to: What is the purpose of life? Tsk tsk, I could then say, well, a life of purpose, of course....;)

Still no further ahead? You could choose from many other glib throw-away one-liners, I suppose, but you'd still be no closer, would you?

Animals have purposes and animals have meanings, also. Humans are animals (and sometimes, more so), but we have something extra, don't we?

We have the capacity for self-conscious and self-reflexive love, something beyond other animals (as far as we know).

However, let's assume we have the highest order of such capacity.

Don't you think it's in your best interest to spread that around as much as possible? What other purpose or meaning do you really NEED?

P.S. You'd be very wrong to assume that my handle, 'tlc', has anything, even remotely, to do with Tender Loving Care. LOL!

Answer 5

We each of us has the Power and the Will to create. Some of us wield it, some don't. Is it a quirk of personality, fate, or random consequence? Each person can only answer the question his or herself. When all has been said and done, what we bring to life, and what we value most in it, is of our own making, and choosing. And if we choose nothing, then, that, too, is a choice.

Answer 6

i would do the same thing that i do now now, chill out and hang with friends

Answer 7

just live till you die