2006-12-02 09:41:19 · 24 answers · asked by Litmus180 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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2006-12-02 10:55:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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.
2006-12-02 19:29:32 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure I've heard any really good answeres, but heres mine:
Life wasn't created for us to waste it thinking about what the meaning is when it's staring us right in the face. We shouldn't waste our time here trying to disect everything that has ever happened to us, instead we should live every moment to it's fullest and be happy and try to make others feel the same and make an impact in whatever way.
And I guarentee you will not find the answer you are looking for here, you will find it when you finally realize that you are truely happy and stop worrying about if you're living life the correct way.
2006-12-02 19:06:06 · answer #3 · answered by Liz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is the overall impression you have of your own existence just before you die. Until then, the meaning can change a million times (or more). Oh, and the exact conclusion is different for each person - so no one but you will know "your" answer.
2006-12-02 18:20:55 · answer #4 · answered by Daniel J 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The question "what is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "What is the nature of life (and of the universe in which we live)?", "What is the significance of life?", "What is valuable in life?", "What is the purpose of, or in, (one's) life?", and "Why does one live?". These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and arguments, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations.
2006-12-02 18:32:22 · answer #5 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a meaningless question.If life itself has no meaning what is the meaning of question?Thanks for 2 points
2006-12-05 04:46:46 · answer #6 · answered by leowin1948 7 · 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.
2006-12-02 18:56:32 · answer #7 · answered by b_steeley 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To become a child in the family of God. Otherwise life has no purpose.
2006-12-02 22:09:43 · answer #8 · answered by John D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
42
For Buttercup & Racheybab regarding FUGAZI's answer
42 was the answer given by the computer in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2006-12-02 18:04:53 · answer #9 · answered by Jules 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The meaning to life is whatever gives meaning to your life at that particular moment.
2006-12-02 17:54:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋