2006-12-01 03:36:50 · 14 answers · asked by riggs s 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
life is beautiful, isn't it??
2006-12-01 03:40:16 · answer #1 · answered by ~ ANGEL ~ 5 · 1⤊ 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.
2006-12-01 13:42:25 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To paraphrase a line from the movie "Waking Life" "In life you get a box of crayons. Now you may get the 8 pack, or heck even the 16 pack. It doesn't matter what pack you get, it's the picture you make with what you have."
Life is about directing the life you want by asking "how would like to see it", and doing it. It's about learning to love and loving to learn about anything and everything. The earth is one big schoolhouse, and we all have various lessons to learn on those themes.
2006-12-01 11:46:47 · answer #3 · answered by Tinalera 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guy in a bar: Who are you?
Buk: Ah the eternal question. The eternal answer: I don't know. -- From Barfly, the screenplay, by the great American unwashed Charles Bukowski.
A far more satisfactory answer to your question, in our view, comes from the attractive, intelligent and unfortunately deceased Joseph Campbell, who spent his days in the realm of myth and in the company of women at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where he taught philosophy and mythology for many years. In one of his great lectures, he cites an eastern philospher who was approached with the same question by one of his pupils to which he responded by holding up a flower. One of the students gathered to hear the reply got it and applauded. The teacher smiled his acknowledgement. The lesson: There is no meaning but what you the liver of life give it by the many relationships you entertain along your path. There is also the notion of awaking to the realization of one's inner Buddha, the only Buddha, and that life is here and now despite the human reality of memory and anticipation. Stop waiting for instant karma in the afterlife, in other words.
2006-12-01 11:56:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
is a life of meaning.
2006-12-01 12:26:49 · answer #5 · answered by diogene_cinico 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is to treat people the way you would want to be treated. Help others if you can, don't be afraid to ask for help when you need. The game of life is the hardest game to play it takes all kinds, and it sucks when people don't play by the rules!!
2006-12-01 11:52:24 · answer #6 · answered by Jodi e 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no meaning of life. We are here merely to keep our species going for another generation. However, we can make life meaningful by setting goals and knowing people.
2006-12-01 12:12:00 · answer #7 · answered by T Delfino 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is...42.
2006-12-01 11:45:38 · answer #8 · answered by STEO 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is a wonderful gift from the creator of all that exists. It is our opportunity to experience love but also hate, joy but also sorrow, kindness but also selfishness, mercy but also injustice. You have important work to do during life and important choices to make concerning all of these experiences. Hopefully, you fulfill in your own way the flowering of your own spirit in your own unique way so that you may return to God as a spiritual being that is a wiser, kinder, more loving and in all other ways a closer representation of God who made us in his/her image.
2006-12-01 13:14:13 · answer #9 · answered by b_steeley 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is whatever you think it is. Nobody actually knows.
A question that can not be answered is the greatest question of them all.
2006-12-01 12:02:06 · answer #10 · answered by agnostic thinker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
life is what you think it is.if you think life is a challenge,then you will take it seriously.if you think its a game then you will enjoy it and try to play and win it.anyway life is short man,best enjoy it.dont waste it.you may not get a chance again to enjoy life.its all about living your life in the best way you can
2006-12-01 11:51:38 · answer #11 · answered by sooraj k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋