A philosopher went into a closet for ten years to contemplate the question, What is life? When he came out, he went into the street and met an old colleague, who asked him where in heaven's name he had been all those years.
"In a closet," he repied. "I wanted to know what life really is."
"And have you found an answer?"
"Yes," he replied. "I think it can best be expressed by saying that life is like a bridge."
"That's all well and good," replied the colleage, "but can you be a little more explicit? Can you tell me how life is like a bridge?"
"Oh," replied the philosopher after some thought, "maybe you're right; perhaps life is not like a bridge."
2006-10-01 03:10:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
What you have said is this:
1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.
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 life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.
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 other kinds of things.
2006-10-01 07:18:57 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We observe in the physical universe that energy must pass through an engine to change. To make a laser, we put visible light through a ruby, which is the engine. To move across distance, we change chemical energy into mechanical energy with a complicated combustion engine.
Life is the engine through which the energy of the spirit is being passed in order to change it. Of course, this isn't an energy that can be measured in the physical universe, because the physical is an illusion, and the spirit is real. We all escape the physical via death, and so may eventually understand the truth of this. Until then, we are in the engine of life.
2006-10-01 11:45:07 · answer #2 · answered by water boy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer cannot be found in a closet. And, as each individual has a different life, one answer will not cover all. To find your answer one must go out and experience it.
2006-10-01 10:18:01 · answer #3 · answered by sparkletina 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life in the personal is the sum of the experiences you have had and will have. Life in general is the experiences others will have had and the new ones that will follow.
2006-10-01 12:05:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why did he go in a closet to find what life was? he should have gone out and seen for himself - lived life to the full, bungee jumped, fell in love, became a star!
2006-10-01 10:59:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey, mate ! That was really cute and thank you for sharing it with us, here!
" The biggest problems contain the biggest lies ! " (LRH).
Ciao.......John-John.
2006-10-02 16:51:53 · answer #6 · answered by John-John 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THAT'S BECAUSE ONE COULDN'T DESCRIBE THE MEANING OF LIFE.IT IS TO BE EXPERIENCED
2006-10-01 10:13:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋