Why can't folk accept this is the meaning of life?

Question

Get your head out of the clouds...

Eat drink sleep poop make offspring , bring them up to support their offspring, die, rot, feed animals turn into compost feed plants, which feed animals which feed humans circle of life.

Along the way as you are a herd animal you need to find a purpose that aids the herd...


ie a career vocational job... Be it an entertainer, food providor, healer, protector... get it?

There is no higher purpose... genetically its just your brains way of saying get a job, do something worth while and help others...


ends of story mate...


Thinking more about it will just give you a head ache and make you suseptable to cults wanting you to be a suicide bomber or spread the witch burner christian cult ethos of be mean to gays & mistreat women or other rubbish...


Any wonders you see are perception... ie a big building...

You see wonder, birds just see nice place to stick a next.


You see pretty fish, other fish see that fish taste yuck

Young men in pre nazi germany without jobs thought whats the purpose in life, Hitler gave them one...

Just like Hamas gave suicide bombers one, just like the KKK gave people one.

Just like evalgelists spread their notion of be mean to gays, suppress sex ed and contraception so girls get pregnant early and pushed into marriage taking away their power...

The notion of purpose serving a master is a bad thing and part of our genetic make up.

its better you just find a way of making yourself useful and helping people...


Which was actually what the person known as Jesus was saying... ie dont find a way of making people kiss by royal butt.

Find a way of helping others as you would have them help you.

Whether he was an alien, mmystical being or early socialist hippie bonking his girlfriend mary Magdelene and being all happy and cosy with her.


That bits irrelavant...a message is more important and you dont need gods, or relgion to see that makes sense.

Surely helping society makes a whole lot more sense then spreading a message to kiss some invisible deities butt and abusing those who dont or dont fit an abstract unfair irrational set of rules...


By the kissed butt being Hitler, Nero, Sun god, Allh, Volcano god, chrisitin god, the funny shaped rock, Michael jackson, Elvis or who and whatever...

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Idiot? me


Well lets see... proof Im right...


It makes a whole lot more sense to spend time and resources on...

A hospital, School, farm, transport system, rescue sytem ir fireservice...


The waste the time and money on fancy usless building s and groups who spend their time kneeling and singing who wonderous some invisible being is ?


Now money on hospitals is intelligent... on kiss butt buildings is stupid as a lot of you lot appear to be as relgion stops you having to think and use reason and how about common sense?

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But what about Mozart? And Einstein? And Leonardo da Vinci? And Nicola Tesla? And Mother Teresa?

Exactly those people had a purpose

they did something with their lives.


What use was the average cleric?

And M Terasa... it werent the kissing gods butt, it was helping poor kids

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HWy do people seek the divine... er looking for a dominant male... like lonley folk make up make believe friends. it does not make it real

Answer 1

"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives. Some people believe that the meaning of life is one or more of the following:

Survival and temporal success

* ...to accumulate wealth and increase social status
* ...to compete or co-operate with others
* ...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
* ...to die having succeeded in your purpose
* ...to live
* ...to protect one's family
* ...to gain and exercise power
* ...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
* ...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction
* ...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
* ...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
* ...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)

Wisdom and knowledge

* ...to be without question, or to keep asking questions
* ...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
* ...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes
* ...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
* ...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life
* ...to expand one's perception of the world

Ethical

* ...to express compassion
* ...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
* ...to give and receive love
* ...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
* ...to serve others, or do good deeds
* ...to work for justice and democracy

Religious, spiritual and esoteric

* ...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment and atonement
* ...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
* ...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
* ...to become God, or God-like
* ...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God)
* ...to follow the "Golden Rule"
* ...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
* ...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
* ...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
* ...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God

Other

* ...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
* ...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human
* ...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
* ...to die, or become a martyr
* ...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general
* ...to live, and enjoy the passage of time
* ...to have fun
* ...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
* ...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny
* ...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others
* ...to seek and find beauty
* ...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
* ...to participate in the chain events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
* ...still some do not even think there is any purpose whatsoever (see nihilism)
* ...(This is actually an extension of the point immediately above) There is no inherent meaning to life, existence, the universe, etc. They exist because they can. However, humans appear to inately give meaning, usually many, often conflicting, to what they are conscious of. So, to each individual, the "meaning of life" is whatever they decide it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid.

Answer 2

Right and wrong ,I'd say.
Meaning is just a derivative of verbal thought ,the idea that a description or aim is the most important element of a phenomenon.
However ,we are thinking beings ,and it has made us very materially successful ,at least in the short term, so we need to find a way to accommodate that without falling into the delusions most of us do.
I speak as someone who has put the search for 'truth' above all else for 25 years ,feeling that the round of life .reproduction and death that you describe is not enough .Pleasure and survival are fleeting and shallow satisfactions .
As one answerer said ,a stance such as yours doesn't bring a close to these issues ,it is just another description to hide behind (excuse me),like a religion.
Scientific Materialism ,is a belief system ,and its basic unexamined beliefs are rarely noted ,as they are shared in many ways by the religious.
Close observation ,rather than theorising ,can reveal truths about our world that can change our perspectives . But also ,as thought addicts , some form of mental methodone ( new ideas ) ,can help us break our habits.
If you find yourself truly beyond thought attachments and the conflicts of believing ,you would find that various other views are just like the birds in the sky . You can play with them ,help them ,or just let them be themselves.

Answer 3

People can't accept the truth as the truth, because they feel special.

People feel that they are different from the animals around them due to strange things their parents or priests or sect leaders told them when they were young.

They believe that we are here for a reason, that the earth was created for us, that we were put here in our current form - and didn't evolve into this form without any divine intervention.

All our lives we are told that we have a purpose, that we have a debt to society and to god. As you quite rightly state, this is a manipulation which will serve some religious/political/industrial leader at some point in the future.

Understanding the truth - that we have no divine purpose other than living our lives, enjoying ourselves and helping our friends and family - is the single most important thing that can happen to somebody, to liberate them from their brainwashing childhood and let them pursue their OWN ambitions.

Answer 4

But what about Mozart? And Einstein? And Leonardo da Vinci? And Nicola Tesla? And Mother Teresa?

Answer 5

I don't know why people still embrace everything but what is right in front of their eyes.They are so desperate to believe that there is something more and are willing to believe whatever is the most popular belief for where they live.They are lost and use faith to trick themselves into believing that they found themselves.But really all they found is a world where hate can be justified and fear can be used as a tool for submission.

Answer 6

Budists say that thinking about this stuff is harmful to the soul, better to just experience each moment and enjoy what we are taught to perceive without seeking things we don't understand. Even after your big speech you still have not got a clear answer/reason. Just enjoy what we do understand in the little time we have here. IT CAN DRIVE YOU BONKERS BE CAREFUL DUDE.

Answer 7

By nature we are selfish, greedy and immoral. We want our own way in everything even if it means depriving someone else. We want more. We want it now. No matter who suffers in order for us to have it, or what harm the resultant pollution does to the planet.

Our purpose is to form a loving community, supporting, helping and encouraging one another. We are supposed to help those in need around us. To share what we have so that no-one is in want. We are supposed to be content to have our needs met and no more. No excess.

The only way to get from one to the other is Jesus Christ, His teachings, and those of His apostles.

Answer 8

Perhaps its because it suits 'the powers' to keep us a bit scared cos if your theory is right (and i dont say it isnt!) then why worry about anything... If you kill you get locked up! But what if you go to the eternal hell being roasted for ever..Bit more serious than a few years in a state run hotel with the cahnce to study botany?? only an opinion!!!

Answer 9

Bombers have a purpose too you know... They aid the herd by keeping the herd numbers down, and keeping the rest of the herd alert, alive and willing to live life in defiance of the bombers.

Wiki - Existentialism. It ain't just crap or preach.

Answer 10

I think people need a higher purpose to believe in and I say good on em! Not all of us have found the right way but it makes life more interesting to find it1

Answer 11

Well said. Now perhaps you can explain to me why man continues to seek out that which is devine. Explain to me why man never ceases to be curious. Explain to me when man reaches his death bed he clings to life so dearly and when all is lost looks to a higher power to take him home. Explain to me why the richest people in the world still feel unhappy and some of the poorest experience bliss. Perhaps there's more to life than just living.