Imagine for a moment that love does not exist. What, then, would be the purpose of life?
Please don't say, "But love does exist." This is a hypothetical question.
2006-09-26 13:28:21 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
"Will to live" and "Will to power".
Dog eat Dog.
Srvival of the fittest.
Kill or be killed.
Do to others before others do to you.
2006-09-26 18:15:27 · answer #1 · answered by rockphilo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There wouldn't be any. We'd just be here for the simple purpose of life and death, to procreate and die, and this would be the most shallow concept of living, anything lower cannot be achieved. Love exists for the elementary purpose to give life meaning, to give us, as individuals, an intrinsic understanding as to why we're here, why we let ourselves hurt so much with the trivialities and unfairness that life sometimes dumps upon our shoulders with a lot of the time no reason at all. Love exists so when we're on our dying beds we can look back and say that all that pain was worth while, to look back and see the moments that love created in our lives and permanently stamped in our minds, to look back and say 'it was all worth it'. So again the answer is simple, there would be none. In fact it would even be hard to imagine a life without it, it would be impossible, it would be like trying to breath while under water, we'd all eventually drown because it just wasn't MEANT to be.
2006-09-26 14:52:28 · answer #2 · answered by Lexus-Nut 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't know the purpose of life was love. Some people are happy being alone and I think they might answer your question the same way we do now. The purpose of life is and always will be what you make of it.
2006-09-26 16:23:09 · answer #3 · answered by Sketch 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of life is to obtain happiness. There are many ways to be happy without love.
2006-09-26 13:36:55 · answer #4 · answered by Michael M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word what if can be very powerful. Love existed first and the same with hate. The order of chaos. What is love? God is love and love is God.
2006-09-26 13:36:40 · answer #5 · answered by stickinthemud 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you think the bee, ant or termite feel what you call love? In our hubris, should we say that their lives have no purpose?Love is not the purpose of life; it is the effect of life of purpose.
2006-09-26 13:36:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without love, this world wouldn't be a world. We would not care about anything if we didn't love. Love is the root of all things. Yes, even hate. Without love, there is no hate. Without love, there is no care, no guilt, no will, no way, no sympathy, no happiness, no nothing. Without love, nobody would care to love and nobody would care to hate. We would mearly be existing to die and that's about it.
2006-09-26 13:34:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To procreate, love or no? besides, the meaning of life is 42.
2006-09-26 13:34:34 · answer #8 · answered by Sirius Black 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then life itself will cease to exist
2006-09-26 19:22:58 · answer #9 · answered by Brahmanda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we would be like the ants just going about life meeting our basic needs (food water procreation) and we would build huge cities in which to live in to better accomadate the 3 basic listed earlier.
2006-09-26 13:37:35 · answer #10 · answered by gruntman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry,i do not trust in rejecting each and every of the Hadith,plus you adult men reject hadith,that mean you do not trust in Imam Mahdi.did you comprehend that ninety 5% of the small signal end of time hadith has come authentic.What,you want to say that is twist of destiny,like the non believer.we may be able to do our study on hadith and study them incredible it truly is authentic,which isn't.Which were given project and which do no longer.yet rejecting all of them,i do not trust that.hi,enable merely see who's contained in the right course,you who reject each and every of the Hadith or me who settle for Hadith,yet nonetheless do study on them.definitely we are able to come to understand the truth. Allahhuakbar!!!!
2016-12-02 03:23:44 · answer #11 · answered by walley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋