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2006-08-17 13:23:48 · 17 answers · asked by aaron 5 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there's life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions recently:

1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping others etc, etc.

2006-08-17 13:56:42 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0 0

This is the infancy of the human race. Maybe seeking a purpose is the wrong way to go about it, but I think that among other things, this universe is way to big not to explore. It would be a worthwhile pursuit, given our place in the world, to step out and try to understand the universe, and to take our place in it. IMHO, being human is about becoming more than you were the day before, and understanding reality a bit more each day. Its about living in a state of optimistic freedom.

2006-08-17 13:40:35 · answer #2 · answered by requiem42 2 · 0 0

genuinely, why can we'd desire to have a objective? Our objective is to stay, and die....the different objective given to our lives is socially built on account that there is not any thank you to instruct an better being, and whether there have been, no person is conscious why we are here. i've got faith each and each man or woman has a objective, as a man or woman, as a fashion to maintain the human race functioning as an entire, however the objective of the human race is to stay and die, only like the objective of any species on the earth.

2016-12-14 07:28:23 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

To mess things up. No really, I don't know. We probably had a purpose and a niche in the food chain and benefited other creatures when we were primitive. But now we are defying the laws of nature and are manipulative. Sometimes I feel like our only benefit to the world is that when we die, we decompose and become worm food. Pleasant isn't it?

2006-08-17 13:29:42 · answer #4 · answered by Steph 4 · 0 0

Human life is a junction between the higher consciousness of demigods and the lower consciousness of animals. We can make the choice to go up or down depending on how we associate with the modes of material nature. Associating with the mode of goodness takes up to the heavenly, light, spheres and associating with the modes of passion and ignorance take us lower in the dark spheres of fearfulness.

But this only covers a possible evolution or devolution within the material universe. If we want to really take advantage of what the human consciousness affords us, we will devote ourselves to spiritual realization and re-establish our relationship with the Supreme Lord. This is associating with the mode of pure goodness or transcendence. The result of this is that our consciousness becomes completely purified to the point of being able to directly associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That's it in a nutshell. Check out my sources if you want to investigate further.

2006-08-17 13:54:52 · answer #5 · answered by Jagatkarta 3 · 0 0

It is an incredible challenge to live in imitation of the life of our God. We all face obstacles, opportunities, and challenges, living in a fast-paced world with many responsibilities. However, a clear sense of purpose-nourished by the Words of God-opens the door for us to actively commit to a life of gratitude and responsibility; to thank God for his endless gifts, and then decide what we can do to enrich our lives together.
It is a spirituality-hence a way of life-made of four parts:

2006-08-17 20:34:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

OUR # 1 PURPOSE IS TO EXPERIENCE LIFE WITH THE FULL INTENTION OF SEEING IT THROUGH TO THE END AND ACCOMPLISHING THE FEAT OF LIFELONG OPTIMISM/HAPPINESS AND OVERALL LIFE OBJECTIVE FULFILLMENT. There is no actual purpose except the above and personal recognition of the deceptive ways of the satanic oligarchy, the Illuminati and the Freemason network.

2006-08-17 13:33:51 · answer #7 · answered by kevin arnold 1 · 0 0

unlike the rest of the animals, we decided to go our own way instead of following the rules of the Earth. So our purpose is to find our own path...

2006-08-17 13:41:37 · answer #8 · answered by angelus 4 · 0 0

Before: To eat some species and be food for others
Now: Make sure we don't do our first job too well. (We've become so much more efficeint that the other animals on earth we threaten the collapse of the entire food chain)

2006-08-17 13:29:22 · answer #9 · answered by DonSoze 5 · 1 0

To create our own purpose.

2006-08-17 13:28:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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