2006-11-11 15:53:02 · 9 answers · asked by Matthew R 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
A house is just brick and tar.
What defines it as a home is the family that lives inside.
The same could be said of the universe.
It is the people on earth that gives it meaning.
2006-11-12 01:13:29 · answer #1 · answered by Saffren 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like tool's answer, i wish i had said that. Just to follow up, the diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy is 100,000 light years, exceeds ordinary human comprehension...right? a time interval vastly greater than all of human history.
Another thousand times farther takes us to distant cluster of galaxies, but even then, that would be less than one ten-thousandths of a percent of the observable Universe. We are mere specks in an abyss of time and space.
From the perspective of the Universe, we do not exist....just a mere grain of salt on all the beaches of the world. So does that make our lives meaningless....yes and no.
Yes because our lives and that of the earth is temporary, no....for the short term. We live to decrease pain and increase pleasure...all else is lost to oblivion.
2006-11-11 16:48:38 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that you ask about what the universe means to human beings. Perhaps humans aren't the paragon of anything, they're just another life form in a huge cosmos. Perhaps other life forms, in a distant galaxy far, far away, are more relevant to the meaning of the universe than us humans. My point is, the universe could have meaning with or without us.
2006-11-11 15:57:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
humans represent something like 4% of life on this planet-the rest is in the animal kingdom. only we have the ability to think of "meaning." so why is meaning such a meaningful thing in this existence? it isn't-at least to most life. creation is an idea of beginnings and ends. time is not real. so maybe the universe has just been. only the few lifeforms that randomly pop up have the luxory and fun to feel a sense of meaning
2006-11-11 16:05:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the universe was "randomly" created when little floating hydrogenes decided to turn into something (how they got there and how they decided dont ask me)- the big bang, earth was then "randomly" created, and randomly some one celled amiaba decided to evolve into animals from a planet that had been literally thousands of degrees hot since a big meator hit it millions of years ago, scientist say the amiaba came from another planet from that meteor and that explains life, (even tho they KNOW it couldnt have survived??) ('sides how did it get on the meteor? and before that? and before that?) whatever, then the amoeba decided to become a monkey then it magically got 2% random new genes and it became human, than after randomly evolving for a few thousand years; humans precede to do nothing random, but plan out their actions logically. hmm weird huh.
2006-11-11 18:54:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question... Sorry I don't have the answer, but i know the universe was not an accident and that God made it, and yes that sounds like the sunday school answer but it is true.
2006-11-11 15:58:00 · answer #6 · answered by reddamsredneck 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People extrapolate the worth of what they carry inside themselves on the world around them.
I am Rational Spirituality, available on the Dhaxem website.
2006-11-11 19:04:40 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A big void.
2006-11-11 15:54:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why does it have to be meaningful?
2006-11-11 15:57:54 · answer #9 · answered by chanljkk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋