2006-11-25 09:34:09 · 9 answers · asked by spoongentry 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I'll pray that you find the answer to these very wise questions.
2006-11-25 16:55:02 · answer #1 · answered by Lonelyplanet 4 · 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.
So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.
2006-11-26 16:48:00 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is to use the gift of God (which is the spirit, or breath of life) with wise choices or decisions. When you die, you go into the earth, or get cremated. You go nowhere. That's what dead means. You know nothing.
2006-11-25 18:09:24 · answer #3 · answered by istthomasjr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Existence" can not become "non-existence." It can change into some other type of existence.
People who cease to have a physical existence continue to live but in another dimension unknown to us.
This may sound too esoterical but it is simple. An example will clarify it.
When we were in the womb of our mother we were in another world. We were living in a physiological world. It was completely different from this physical world.
When we abandoned the womb world (died to the womb world) and were born into the physical world, we didn't "go" to any other place. We stayed in the same place. We came into a new dimension, the physical world.
Similarly the next world is not a "place" where we will be going to. It is here. But in another dimension unknown to us, just as the physical world is unknown to the fetus.
2006-11-25 21:21:03 · answer #4 · answered by apicole 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
our spirits go into a wormhole or portal to another earth like place and live again.thats why theres so many magnetic fields here.we go to a place that starts with the letter A ,im kinda psychic and thats what someone told me in a dream.i heard its beautiful i asked if it was heaven but it wasnt,much beautifuler than how people think of heaven.
2006-11-25 20:08:52 · answer #5 · answered by d4rkprincess84 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is found in Jesus the Christ, it doesn`t have to be so complex, God`s home is Heaven, but there is a jail called hell for those who love evil.
2006-11-25 17:41:56 · answer #6 · answered by sword 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are here to help others. However, I'm not sure what the others are here for.
And don't worry about where we go when we die... it really doesn't matter until that moment comes.
2006-11-25 17:41:29 · answer #7 · answered by mJc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning is to propagate. You go nowhere when you die.
2006-11-25 17:37:56 · answer #8 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's up to you. People need something to believe in. So, I say believe in whatever gets you up in the morning.
2006-11-25 17:42:43 · answer #9 · answered by on broken wings 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋