2006-11-01 06:46:06 · 13 answers · asked by shahram j 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
whatever you make of it
2006-11-01 06:47:48 · answer #1 · answered by flyingdebris1 3 · 1⤊ 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.
2006-11-01 23:36:45 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beats me. Just do the best you can from day to day with whatever you've been given, and don't strive for fulfillment outside of anything other than the basics and some kindness. The excess stuff doesn't matter; and the US is largely a land of excess!
2006-11-01 14:57:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A distant memory of times gone by
2006-11-01 14:55:55 · answer #4 · answered by Cherry Berry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lif is a bucket of crap with the handle on the inside.
You need to reach in and get what you need to move on.
2006-11-01 14:53:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are the only one who can answer that question because I do not think that you do not have the slightest clue what life is, then us we can try to enhance that which you already have.
2006-11-01 15:17:06 · answer #6 · answered by Jerry 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life can be the paradise or hell,
life can be you or me,
life can be your freedom or your own jail,
your happiness or your sadness,
white or black and the diffrerence of all that matters to you!
2006-11-01 16:32:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An all-too-brief respite from darkest oblivion.
2006-11-01 14:53:31 · answer #8 · answered by martino 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is what happens when you're busy paying attention to other things.
2006-11-01 15:01:27 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is what you make of it..whatever path you take..that would be Your life...
2006-11-01 15:12:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a place where we occupy time until God comes back to get his people that love him
2006-11-01 14:48:41 · answer #11 · answered by mario h 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋