2006-11-26 01:56:59 · 13 answers · asked by Appu s 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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.
2006-11-27 13:06:08 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is to live, enough to find the answer of the question. The human is a living being who makes questions, other living beings of the earth give us answers. So, we can look them to learn.
2006-11-26 11:46:36 · answer #2 · answered by pocholine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, the notorious philosophy question.
The meaning of life if to simply survive whatever is thrown at us. We need to pass on our DNA to keep our species alive on the planet. As for intellegence, we have happened to evolve in, and it helps us to communicate, learn, love, etc. in life.
2006-11-26 10:37:51 · answer #3 · answered by Greek 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is to change. The meaning of death is to stop change. When you are dead, you become infinite again. Life means change, it means being finite.
2006-11-26 11:43:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To keep an open mind & defend one's own sense of beauty, given that we all come from different places and circumstances and can't always have smily faces.
2006-11-26 10:48:53 · answer #5 · answered by de_gallaco 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To see the love in my childrens eyes
2006-11-26 10:04:44 · answer #6 · answered by murphy51024 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everyone's life has a different meaning gave by themselves. so stop asking and find your oun.
2006-11-26 10:25:18 · answer #7 · answered by Cristina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To do what you please in this life time?
We only have one life in this moment ?
But the secret is? Like our famous sport quote?
Just do it!
2006-11-26 10:17:31 · answer #8 · answered by sergio 29 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it ends so live
2006-11-26 11:26:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven and hell exist on earth. They are your conscience. You decide what is what.
2006-11-26 10:05:09 · answer #10 · answered by Totally Blunt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋