Why do you care about gaining knowledge, wouldn't it all go to waste anyway when you die. Why do you care about mankind or the world if it has no meaning?
(I'm just interested in seeing your point of view on this one)
2006-09-07 10:49:32 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Make small analogies of it. If you went to six flags and knew you had to leave in 6 hours, why would you ride any of the rides? If you knew your clothes would go out of style after the winter, why would you buy the latest treand?
Life is a ride that is worth enjoying no matter where you end up. You might as well make the most out of it. Knowledge can make your life happier and better, and it can make it better for those around you. I care about those around me because we are all we have, eachother. I care about those around me because there is no point in having someone suffer during their only period of existance. And the list goes on and on, but you catch my drift, I hope.
2006-09-07 11:15:26 · answer #1 · answered by Alucard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've earned four degrees, so far, and it has reflected directly in my income. I was back home visiting with a high school friend who didn't go onto college. His income is less that a sixth of mine. So I live well, travel freely, give half my income away to charities and deserving causes and people, can take care of my family well, have access to good health care. So there are good reasons to gain knowledge for the sake of gain in this life. But I am also terribly curious about everything. Always have been, and I don't find sitting around watching reality TV very entertaining. It's also got to do with my parenting, i.e. I've been taught that intellectual laziness is a disgrace and unaddressed ignorance is deplorable and vile. Beyond that, I have children, people I mentor, all of whom I can benefit by passing on what I have learned. Their well being and success is important to me.
Frankly, I find your question very strange. You seem to believe that your death invalidates your life. We all live on in the lives we touch, the children we raise, the people we raise up, or perhaps that we tear down. It's a very egocentric question and seems to assume we are the only ones affected by what we do. Maybe you need to get out in the world and get involved?
2006-09-07 11:01:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think it's important to make the world a better place for ourselves and our children. Biologically I think we want to. It seems we are naturally programmed to want to live and make our world the best it can possibly be. I think (mentally healthy) humans are naturally good and want to do what they can to help others. You're right though, when we die we will loose all the knowledge we built up over our lives, but hopefully we enjoyed ourselves and helped advance the well-being of the world in one area or another. On a cosmic scale though, nothing really matters. Unless we are able to relocate to a distant planet in the next few billion years, it will all be over when the sun explodes; nothing will have mattered.
2006-09-07 10:58:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it isn't wasted if we share the knowledge gained during our lifetimes with those we leave behind. those who have gone before me cared enough about mankind to make my life worth living and i would like to do the same for others if i can.
2006-09-07 11:03:16 · answer #4 · answered by jbslass 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every decade, human beings have a longer life expectancy
than the decade before. I think it's a good idea to have some
knowledge of things & of the human body, to pass on to the
next generation, who may live to be 200.
The more knowledge you have, the longer you may live,
as immortality might be a futuristic goal.
2006-09-07 10:59:04 · answer #5 · answered by Calee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does have meaning and 70-80-90 years is quite a long time to do and stuff and enjoy life, death is mandatory for all ...we all die so get used to it.
2006-09-07 11:02:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it makes life so much more enjoyable than just going though it as a dumbass. The meaning of life is to enjoy it and try to help the people around you to enjoy it. I don't understand your question really. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
2006-09-07 10:56:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is short, but it would be short and meaningless without the never ending search for knowledge.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.-Voltaire
2006-09-07 10:57:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without knowledge, life would be kind of boring.
Plus, it's not as if knowledge isn't a transient property- ever heard of books?
2006-09-07 10:55:54 · answer #9 · answered by onemillioninchange 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge that is passed on will last forever as long as it keeps getting passed on....Example, even if there is not a life after death, Einstein will live forever.
2006-09-07 11:56:58 · answer #10 · answered by Denise W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋