why do we live?to work?cook?clean?then sleep?what kind of life is that?or just go clubbing and drinking?so your killing yourself any way then we die??????????????
2006-09-20 09:24:52 · 16 answers · asked by sweetsexylucia 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
OK, bottom line/quick answer is: to worship God and keep his commandments.
The LONG answer is go read the bibles description of when King Solomon decided to answer this quesiton and all the stuff he did to answer to PROVE that's the right answer.
2006-09-20 09:28:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
This is a more profound question than you might think. I recommend reading Albert Camus on the meaning of life. An annotated version of The Stranger by Camus will give you some ideas.
I will give you the existentialist answer that I subscribe to. Life has no meaning beyond the life itself. You live the life you find yourself in, and try to maximize the pleasures of life. You have very few choices anyway. You cook and clean simply to extend your life so you can enjoy the pleasures tomorrow. Not because of any profound reason. Those who do things for other reasons are often being manipulated by others. And you can see who is manipulating them, if you look carefully at who is benefitting from their actions.
Now here is the tough question. What would you do differently, if the society didn't punish you for misbehaving? Or if you knew you had a terminal ilness, and you had 3 months to live, and you couldn't really be punished in a meaningful way by the society, what would you do to increase your pleasure now?
2006-09-20 09:39:08 · answer #2 · answered by professortvz 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think I'll point you in the direction of a man who, long ago, realised that one thing all life has in common is that it ends.
Two men, actually. One in the East, who renounced his rank as Prince to sit under a tree, and one in the West, who became a Roman Emperor but is better known as a philosopher.
In both cases, they came to a conclusion that, while life may seem long, each of us has only the one life to live. It is therefore how we behave to one another while we live that matters, in the end, to the kind of life we all wish to live.
Once death comes, that's it; our duties as part of the human species are over. For better or worse, what matters is how we live, how much we can enrich the species as a whole by our presence in their lives, and how well we accept our deaths.
As for yourself, both teachers gently remind us that we should look upon prosperity with indifference and distrust, and always be happy to let it go in its time, because of all the dreams and delusions that plague us, the acquisition of wealth and status is probably the most dangerous and illusory. It leads to people forgetting that they are a part of a greater organism, namely the human species and the planet, and sooner or later, the planet is what reclaims us all, returns us into the dirt we came from, and then turns us into something else, on and on, forever.
And in this day and age, that is a lesson we cannot afford to forget.
2006-09-20 09:48:10 · answer #3 · answered by fiat_knox 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can't speak for everybody, but my life is a search for happiness. I do all those other things- work, cook, clean, etc. because I have to, but the true reason in living for me is to have days when I feel nothing but joy.
Life gives you the opportunity to experience emotions. Not all of them are good, but some of them are Great.
2006-09-20 09:33:01 · answer #4 · answered by Ghostman 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-20 10:04:58 · answer #5 · answered by albert_rossie 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The whole point of life is having the courage of your convictions to live it and enjoy it, do all the things you want to do and enjoy each day as if it were your last.
2006-09-20 10:19:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
my thoughts exactly... im existing in this miserable depressing life, not really achieving much only to eventually die. Don't see what the point in all this is .... I should just cut out the middle man!
2006-09-20 09:35:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no point. We are alive because we survive. It is our intelligence as humans which makes us ask such questions. Whatever, our modern lifestyles are not satisfying. Send me off to a desert island anyday!
2006-09-20 09:35:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
as the saying goes "life is but a dream but when you die you truly wake up"
2006-09-20 09:36:41 · answer #9 · answered by dempsey 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the whole point of life is that YOU decide what the whole point of life is.
2006-09-20 09:30:44 · answer #10 · answered by Trin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋