Why or why not?
2006-10-20 08:25:25 · 26 answers · asked by mutterhals 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, life is beautiful.
2006-10-20 08:26:40 · answer #1 · answered by Manny 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you have done with it. Life is what you make it. If you choose to go through life with a bad attitude, then it very well may be absurd and devoid of meaning. But if you search for that which is good, then it may just be a little nicer of a place than one might have guessed.
2006-10-20 08:28:16 · answer #2 · answered by AT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good questions today Sugarbear!
I intended to actually get some work done today, but you've gotten me sidetracked.
Devoid of meaning? Ya pretty much...
Solomon sez:
Ecc 1
2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!"
says the Teacher.
"Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless."
3 What does man gain from all his labor
at which he toils under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
"Look! This is something new"?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 There is no remembrance of men of old,
and even those who are yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow.
BUT later in his philosophizing (a word?) he says:
9 What does the worker gain from his toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. 13 That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.
2006-10-23 05:57:48 · answer #3 · answered by Salami and Orange Juice 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People are absurd and devoid of meaning, not life. God causes life to exist through his love and God's love is neither absurd nor devoid of meaning.
2006-10-20 08:29:57 · answer #4 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absurd yes, whether it has meaning depends on how each persone feels about it.
There is no one answer for that question. There's meaning in my life even though in the large scheme of things my life is meaningless to the vast majority. Only an infinitesimal percentage of humankind will know I existed and an even smaller number from that will actually have had any effect in their lives because of my life. That's where the absurdity of it comes in.
But I'm existing and I'm going to enjoy it while I'm here
2006-10-20 08:34:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are absurd elements to life, but I wouldn't say that life is entirely absurd. As for meaning, I believe life doesn't come with guarantees or a preset meaning. Some people are content to simply float along, merely existing until they stop, while most invest their lives with special meaning and pursue a course which they feel takes them closest to the goal or goals they have set for themselves.
Life is precious. Make the most of it.
2006-10-20 08:33:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If life were absurd then why live it?
If life is devoid of meaning then why suffer through it?
There is a reason for life, we are experiencing for God, we are here to help one another the very meaning of it and come to our own truth of it, and to let it be a glory unto Him that created all things.
Think of the world as a school for perfecting your soul.
2006-10-20 08:30:17 · answer #7 · answered by Neptune2bsure 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I would say Religion is absurd and devoid of meaning.
2006-10-20 09:09:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Eh. Life contains meaning to those that look for it, but not in a spiritual sense. Life is absurd.
2006-10-20 08:29:14 · answer #9 · answered by reverenceofme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes I agree it is absolutely absurd. BUt it is through the absurdness we find meaning. The moment's of devastation that gives us peace and clarity to allow us to dig for a meaningful existance.
I wish you well.
2006-10-20 08:32:09 · answer #10 · answered by fryedaddy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Life is absurd but it is very meaningful. I suppose I feel this way because I have had a hard life and yet I am still here and still hopeful.
2006-10-20 08:28:30 · answer #11 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋