2006-12-01 16:46:19 · 15 answers · asked by Noel N 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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2006-12-01 16:52:26 · answer #1 · answered by cowwithkiwi 2 · 2⤊ 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 19:35:00 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first thing you would need is to understand what you mean by "meaning". Life is full of things that have meaning and things that just are what they are (does a tree have meaning)? So what more meaning could life have than what it already contains?
Check it out.
2006-12-01 17:14:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientists, writers, religious leaders and people in general are trying to answer this question for ever. They did not find the answer yet. May be, searching for the answer to this question IS the meaning of life.
2006-12-01 18:36:31 · answer #4 · answered by paloma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-02 00:28:12 · answer #5 · answered by janegalt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is love, by the time you understand it,experience it, enjoy it life is over.
2006-12-01 17:03:13 · answer #6 · answered by Gary M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Accept this so-called "jesus", get a job, and become a good little sheep like you're supposed to. Didn't you read the pamphlet?
2006-12-01 18:09:28 · answer #7 · answered by brian-upstairs 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To eat, sleep, and procreate... until you die. Keep recycling that free energy at the surface of the earth baby.
2006-12-01 17:00:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just Obey your creator and i know which is the best religion and you need to find out for yourself whats the best .
However there`s only one single religion which God wants u to follow because God wont expect u to follow two different things
God`s message is one,,just one
find it out
2006-12-01 16:53:21 · answer #9 · answered by halo 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Life was, is, and will be.
2006-12-01 16:49:37 · answer #10 · answered by eagleperch 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋