2006-10-29 12:32:41 · 25 answers · asked by haggishunter 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
to learn enough so you can enjoy it rather than suffer through it
2006-10-29 12:40:28 · answer #1 · answered by Mac 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If I ask - who am I? The answer is nothing but myself. Nothing else and no one else will ever be able to describe who I am. I am the answer to myself I am what I am. Even if I accept this even then the question remains - who am I? This is the point, strange, perplexing but true. The question has an exact answer, but the question still remains – it is answered and yet has not been answered. For no sooner an answer is offered than it becomes a part of the question.
The meanings of life could be in the realisation of this fact – that life is in fact a form of a live question, a question that has no answer but an answer in itself. Nothing else can define life but life it self and then the question remains – what is life? Is it a mystery? Is it an endeavour, a struggle? Or is it a gift and blessing? Or may be life is all of these. What life is depends upon who we are.
In my personal view I can give a less generalised meaning of life. The meanings of my life keeping changing day by day: some days life is like torrential rain that fall on my head, and some days it feels like a blessing; sometimes it a bright day and some other day it like a perpetual night; someday life is close, and some other day it is no where to be found, I have to search for it. I never find a definitive and final answer to the question life. And as I keep searching I feel as if I am burning like a candle in a sphere of light – a gradual spreading of light of m awareness all around.
2006-10-30 01:29:11 · answer #2 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
I've come to two conclusions recently:
1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.
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.
2006-10-30 04:55:18 · answer #3 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think this is the most popular question on Yahoo. And I like to anwer it because this is the ultimate question. When all the questions - of science, history, geography, maths, and social studies - all questions have been answered - the ultimate question will be why we are here.
This is the ultimate why?
Well, we are already here, so let's enjoy.
But then why are we here?
Well we are here to enjoy the life. But we cannot enjoy unless we earn to enjoy. So all our lives we will strive for the things we desire and when we achieve it we will enjoy it...
Is that all? Too Shallow.
so, What else?
Well imagine you become the undisputed KING of the Planet and are worshipped by the 6 billion people. And you actually do not have any responsibility to restore your status because - well as I said you are undisputed....
What next ? Just Imagine.
What would you want to do next?
That I think would be the purpose of life.
EnJoy
2006-10-30 01:51:20 · answer #4 · answered by vinod s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what a silly question... why would there be a meaning? what would make you think there is a meaning?i suppose things you do have meanings, so you just think everything should have a meaning. sorry, but meaning can only exist in relation to a consciousness... and your asking for the meaning of all consciousness. doesn't work like that. the only answer you can get are individualized ones.. but they are not THE meaning to life.. they are johns or Susan's etc.. this is not because we don't know the actual reason, it is because there isn't one. unless you think there are gods, in which case I'm wasting my time lol
2006-10-29 20:56:30 · answer #5 · answered by causalitist 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is in helping others. Life will have no meaning until you do. We are all in the same boat, and that is why that answer works, and is correct. But you have to take good care of yourself first, otherwise, you are good to no one.
2006-10-29 12:42:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-29 12:40:42 · answer #7 · answered by disco 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
to discover the meaning of life
2006-10-30 04:59:09 · answer #8 · answered by xxibumbenxx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
live every day as your last,and at the end you will know,what the meaning of life is..
2006-10-29 17:21:54 · answer #9 · answered by john boy -1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well. I sit and waste mine on my computer. The purpose of life must be to stare at a computer screen for as many hours as humanly possible.
2006-10-29 18:08:15 · answer #10 · answered by SR13 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory.
Everything else you say, think, or do is attendant to that function. There is nothing else for your soul to do, and nothing else your soul wants to do.
The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, by a process of creation.
We are here to remember and re-create Who We Really Are.
2006-10-29 12:46:57 · answer #11 · answered by tomleah_06 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋