2006-11-01 12:05:30 · 22 answers · asked by Olly 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
whatever keeps you going...
2006-11-03 06:34:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 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.
2006-11-01 23:34:31 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Obviously, you were born for a reason. God's plan. You are an individual, there is no one else like you. Never pretend to be someone you are not. I don't think that there is a right or wrong answer to your question. The answer changes from one day to the next. For me, today, I live for my children and husband. Tomarrow I will still live for them but the list goes on.
2006-11-01 20:13:53 · answer #3 · answered by armymom863 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We live to experience Life......share it,spread it, teach it,learn it, feel it,breathe it,see it, and then die or pass into another realm of after-body Life that is more full than all the Worldy veiws and vistas that we have ever seen....
consider that maybe this Life here on Earth is only the First step ...the Second Life is as Energy of Light???
2006-11-01 21:57:26 · answer #4 · answered by fxbeto 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To disagree with what someone said before. DO NOT READ "A purpose driven life" by Rick Warren.
What you live for depends what you believe in. For me personally, I live every day trying to bring Glory to God.
2006-11-01 20:47:39 · answer #5 · answered by rmhainlen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light
2006-11-01 22:08:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there's another question that has to be answered before yours: Is there a reason? And I think there's none.
It just happened that way. I mean human race just appeared some time and will be extinguished some other, in the same way that one day we are born and we are gone another.
2006-11-01 20:42:11 · answer #7 · answered by Mer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally i live for Love, Joy, Peace & Happiness!
2006-11-02 01:59:57 · answer #8 · answered by ~Twisted Sister~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We live to become more. We are not born complete....The idea of "I think therefore I am" is weak --it should be "I think therefore I may become."
Finding the perfect compliment of Buffalo wings, beer and calzone comes in at a close second
2006-11-01 20:11:02 · answer #9 · answered by silverback487 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Happiness, according to Aristotle (_Nicomachean Ethics_), or the Good, according to Plato's Socrates (_The Republic_), or God, according to Thomas Aquinas (_Summa Theologiae_). These all seem to be sensible answers.
2006-11-01 22:22:58 · answer #10 · answered by AA 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read "A Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren". This may help answer your question.
2006-11-01 20:09:48 · answer #11 · answered by cantstandrudeness 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋