2006-09-29 13:15:35 · 17 answers · asked by Subconsciousless 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It makes this life MORE meaningful, because this is all the time we get.
2006-09-29 13:18:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not. Life has a meaning on its own. Don't you spend days on end working to prepare a party, even though you know there is going to be a day after that party? You work for something which does have an end. And yet it is meaningful, right? Well, life is about that. There are lots of little great "parties" to live for, and to live through. Once a "party" is over, there's going to be another one. And that's what you live for. Your task in life is to make sure there is always a "party" in the foreseeable future.
BTW, by "party" I mean anything you can enjoy, not just REAL parties.
"There is a life BEFORE death".
2006-09-29 20:19:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
If this life is all there is wouldn't it be more meaningful?
You have one chance for happiness. Most people who fight wars believe that if they die they go to heaven.
They have a saying, "There are no atheists in fox holes."
You have a terrible time to get a man to risk his life in war is this life is all he has. So the governments use religion to preach boys into war and tell them to go kill gets them straight into heaven. Maybe not 70 virgins but I guess a suicide bomber it takes a little more coaxing.
2006-09-29 20:23:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
all the more meaningful. if there were an afterlife that's eternal then this life would just a fleeting moment in comparsion, and only an audition for same.
2006-09-29 20:24:08 · answer #4 · answered by answer faerie, V.T., A. M. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If there is no afterlife, that makes this life MORE meaningful! Think of all the things you MUST do today because you can't live forever!
You better apologize to everybody you owe one to.
You better thank everybody who does something nice for you.
You better pay everybody you owe because this is your only chance.
You better take your risks NOW because there will never be another time.
You better love, give, find, grow, eat, sleep, play, work and even grieve as hard and as hot as you can, because this is IT, baby.
2006-09-29 20:20:46 · answer #5 · answered by nora22000 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
On the other hand, let's say you are a good person for 72 years. Why should you get an eternity of blissful afterlife for that? Wouldn't it be fairer for you to get 72 years of bliss and then snuffed out?
2006-09-29 20:21:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Spooky is 100% correct.
The fact that there is no magic candy land after death should prompt people to live life as if it's worth living.
But they don't. They think that since they get a key to the Hilton in heaven, they can ignore the world while they're alive.
Poor deluded morons that they are...
2006-09-29 20:23:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No not at all. If you have a lot going on in this life, plenty of people you value, and help humanity how you can, and end up long remembered by those that care...that's got a lot of meaning to it.
2006-09-29 20:37:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is an afterlife. This life is meaningful. We are here to learn for God who knows about negativity, but doesn't experience it. We are here for him to experience it. That is why we need to do good and help everyone. If you do awful things then you will have to come back and try it again, so you mine as well do the right thing.
2006-09-29 20:20:31 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 5⤋
This is a very interesting question
Actually God informs us about this in Quran in the following sence.
- There are some of us seek only life(not after life pro), and so they are to be rewarded according to their achievement only in this life.
- There are some of us seek after life and so they are to be rewarded according to their life achievments in after life.
- and there are who seek both and they deserve both rewards.
So I think that after life makes the rewards more appealing knowing the fact it will ever last.
2006-09-29 20:26:00 · answer #10 · answered by egyptian_youth 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋