2006-11-03 21:25:05 · 22 answers · asked by artur b 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Certain questions are wrong because they're loaded-- like asking, "do you still beat your wife?" If you've never beaten your wife there's no correct way to answer it. If you answer "yes" it implies that you once DID beat your wife, and if you answer "no" it implies that you're still doing it.
Such is the case with this perennial question. It keeps coming up, and people think there's an objective answer -- like a solution to a mathematical equation, or a cure to a disease. People keep expecting someone, somewhere to come up with the magic answer, and suddenly we're all going to slap our foreheads and say, "WOW! So THAT'S it!!! Thanks."
Unfortunately, life is not an objective enterprise. It is a subjective enterprise. We may do science objectively, but Nobody (I repeat -- NOBODY) lives life "objectively." We all live it subjectively. And if that is the case, the question "what is the meaning of life" is nonsensical. You're asking for an objective answer to a subjective problem.
Therefore, you have to approach the problem subjectively. The proper question isn't "what is the meaning of life" (in objective terms), but "What is the meaning of MY life" -- asked in subjective terms.
And what is the meaning of YOUR life? Only YOU can answer that. That is the existential choice. It's all on you -- and nobody but you. It's the question each one of us must ultimately confront. You can be reactive and let others choose for you; or you can be proactive, seize the day, and define your own existence. It's up to you.
2006-11-03 21:47:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?" is uniquely personal. There is no single absolute CORRECT answer because it varies by individual. What is correct for you is different than what is correct for him or her or me.
To answer this question you must first think and then DECIDE what is the meaning of YOUR death. It is from this decision that the foundation for answering your question about the meaning of your life can be absolutely answered.
The word "meaning" is synonomous with "interpretation". Interpreting a life is a function of assessing the myriad results of one's life actitivities; both WHAT was achieved and HOW it was achieved.
The scorecard for judging the meaning of life is simple enough. Did the amount of good you produced during your life far outweigh the amount of bad? Did you leave the world a better place for your being in it?
2006-11-04 05:41:24 · answer #2 · answered by angelthe5th 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is what you make it to be. Some people believe that life is about money and they make their life about money or finding money. Some people believe life is about love and they make their life about love or finding love. The answer to your question is really an answer you find in yourself.
2006-11-04 05:28:55 · answer #3 · answered by lwang81 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is _ _ _
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it
Life is a beauty, admire it
Life is a dream, admire it
Life is a challenge, meet it
Life is a duty, complete it
Life is a game, play it
Life is a promise, fulfill it
Life is sorrow, overcome it
Life is a song, sing it
Life is a struggle, accept it
Life is a tragedy, confront it
Life is an adventure, dare it
Life is luck, make it
Life is too precious, do not destroy it
Life is life, fight for it
2006-11-04 06:26:12 · answer #4 · answered by Gold 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no specific meaning. It's not a general term in my opinion, everyone of us has a different definition of life. Just look inside you...
2006-11-04 05:27:16 · answer #5 · answered by Rodiak 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was gonna say a joke answer but I get the impression you're not looking for a joke answer. So here's my serious answer. God is love. In order to be fulfilled, he needed a recipient of his love. So he made man. But he didn't want a bunch of robots, so he gave us a free will and told us to be good in a bad place, and made us with flesh that always tempts us to do bad. For millenniums man failed and God punished him and he failed and he punished him and blah, blah, blah. Finally he saved them himself because man couldn't be good and was always skrewing up. That's why Jesus came. So to answer your question, the meaning of life used to be to try to be a good human being to repay a loving God that gave you life. But now, since Jesus came, it's to make the choice to accept the sacrifice he made for you and walk the rest of your life with him. That's my final answer.
2006-11-04 05:39:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Come out of an atom, then a cell, then two... become a body, eat, drink, think and live, fornicate, multiply, try to understand where we came from and where we are going to, add a small bit to the knowledge heritage of previous individuals,and then die and go back to atoms.From womb to tomb... Hello goodbye
2006-11-04 07:52:51 · answer #7 · answered by Sweet Dragon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life just IS.
2006-11-04 08:54:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life means just exactly and precisely whatever you think it means and what I think doesn't really count at all.
George Burns as God in Oh God!
2006-11-04 07:35:56 · answer #9 · answered by Magic One 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I climbed that mountain of knowledge looking for the "all knowing Guru" to give me the answer. It was his day off, so I never found out. Sorry I can't help.
2006-11-04 05:34:52 · answer #10 · answered by Pat C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋