Why do you think you live? What purpose do you think you are living for? What will you do when your purpose is fullfilled? Heck, what is your purpose? To kill someone? To do something? Th achieve a certain something? To become something? Well this is a 2-part question and this is the 2nd part. Why? Why do you work hard for it? Why do you do something when you know later on you are just going to die? if you are not the president or an important official it won't matter anyways. Is it because you want to achieve happiness by doing so? Is it revenge? Why?
2006-12-03 15:02:21 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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2006-12-03 15:09:41 · answer #1 · answered by Thanks for the Yahoo Jacket 7 · 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.
2006-12-03 23:14:36 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure how to explain it to you, but I do know it has NOTHING to do with anything as petty and cruel as killing someone. Try this: come up with a list of things you know to be true but can't prove to anyone - things you just know because you know. Go from there.
Your second part: why do you think that only what an "important" person, with power over others, does, matters? Every person's actions matter because they're part of the world forever. Anyway ... we do it because the alternative is suicide, and because we are alive it is our nature to try to go on living if we can manage to, and to seek to get our material and emotional needs met, day to day. Revenge is just spite - a way for the fearful to avoid feeling the pain of their wounds, by pouring salt in them.
2006-12-03 23:48:54 · answer #3 · answered by zilmag 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really think if everyone found what they really loved and did it, they could be happy. I live for writing. It's what makes me feel most complete, at peace with myself. I don't know my purpose for living except, maybe, to change something. Because what else would I live for? Life is life. Your in it. No choice. You just gotta find something to live for and do it. Hopefully it's right and you fulfill your dreams, hopes, ambitions, do what you love. I personally believe everyone matters and effects everyone else in some way or another. None of us really know the meaning to life or fully understand it.. all we really have is what is given to us. It's our job to figure that out.
2006-12-03 23:35:41 · answer #4 · answered by amor fati 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, life is a gift. It's what you make out of it and your whole attitude towards it. Sometimes, we might not have been given the greatest gift, but we can always make something great out of it. Life is mysterious in many ways that we can't always explain what it's all about. We just have to make the most of it!
2006-12-03 23:15:45 · answer #5 · answered by MaTriX 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This one question "meaning of Life" is the most asked question on the Internet. Why?
Every Human Being wants to know and understand the Philosophy behind the meaning of Life! Why are we here... what is the purpose of our living on Mother Earth... what is the real meaning of Life? The queries are numerous... there has got to be a justification for our living. What is the basis of existence of Life on planet Earth?
Before we indulge into knowing "the meaning of Life" we need to understand Life itself. How do we differentiate between a mortal (living being) and an immobile material (having no Life within)? For this we need to start from the beginning of the Cosmos itself... The time of the big bang!
At the time of the big bang when God, the Almighty Creator which is but the size of half a thumb explodes itself... all Atmans (Souls) get scattered all over the cosmos and in doing this they lose their pristine purity and as a ball coated with honey gathers dust while rolling... these Atmans (Souls) also get impregnated with impurities. This is the fundamental cause of Life... if these Atmans (Souls) had remained pure all the time... the need for Life in whole of the cosmos would not have arisen.
These Atmans (Souls) in their cosmic journey now need a body so that they can purify themselves and come back to their original pristine form. These Atmans (Souls) do not have the power to purify themselves without the aid of any external body. They need a body to work out its Karma and in the process the dross within the Atman soul shall get removed.
Let me explain this further but before that I need to explain the definition of God.
At the time of pralaya as we call it in Hinduism (the time of complete dissolution of the cosmos)... the total cosmos which consists of many universes dissolves back into its original pristine form... this is the form we know as God, the Almighty Creator! The size of the whole cosmos at this moment of time is half the size of a thumb, which is nothing else, but the collection of all purified Atmans (Souls) in the cosmos.
For purifying themselves why do the Atmans (Souls) need a body? This feature can be explained further by the example of mining.
If I need to extract one KG of pure gold (say an individual purified Atman in its pristine pure form) from a lump of hundred KG of gold ore then I need to pass the lump of hundred KG of gold ore through the requisite mining process. It is absolutely clear that this one KG of pure gold can not on its own separate itself out from the hundred KG of gold ore without the help of an external medium... it needs requisite machinery to remove the 99 KG of dross within the ore.
Similarly, the unpurified Atman the soul within cannot on its own remove the dross within... it needs an external medium... a body in order to come back to its original pristine form. And in the process... this so-called impure Atman is required to manifest a body, which consists of a long chain of manifestations... a total of 8.4 Million manifestations and a Life cycle of 96.4 Million earthly years... a long journey indeed! More on meaning of life here- http://www.godrealized.org/what_is_the_meaning_of_life.html
2006-12-07 04:52:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is to Live, the purpose is to perpetuate Life.
2006-12-03 23:23:21 · answer #7 · answered by bumppo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The buck stops here.
2006-12-03 23:05:38 · answer #8 · answered by -.- 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To experience it fully and for as long as possible.
2006-12-03 23:21:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
46.....hitch hiker's guide to the universe says so.
2006-12-03 23:06:13 · answer #10 · answered by creativechild 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋