We are just floating on a speck in an infinite universe. Nothing to do but do what we do. Waiting to be swallowed up again. Do you really find that to be depressing? It is quite freeing to me. If I could just keep that in mind throughout the whole day I think all my fears and dread would be gone. Life really is too short to waste arguing with people who do not wish to know. We're not doing anything here. True wisdom rings true. There is nothing that rings true on here. Not even my words stand up to the criticisms, but that should not keep me from learning and trying to know. So the purpose I have prescribed myself is knowledge. I am done here. I will go make something of the hours remaining of today and the days remaining of my life. I shall find contentment in considering this strange meaningless life.
2006-12-04 11:51:05 · 16 answers · asked by Hateful Atheist 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-12-04 11:58:12 · answer #1 · answered by DRAGON LADY 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry that you feel that way.
I go through many a days wondering "what have I done today?"
answering: absolutely nothing.
Does that mean that I am not here for a specific reason?
Not at all.
I think of all the times that if I were nothing, and there wasn't a purpose for me, what would have happened.
I think of just today, when I found a child out on the street, no Mother in sight.
What If: I hadn't been there?
Would that child have been found by someone else?
Would that child have been hit by a car and killed?
I think.....no..Know that my life is more than a meaningless existance.
You need to find something to make your life worthwhile, or you are, as you say........worthless.
2006-12-04 20:02:03 · answer #2 · answered by lil' angel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are lying to yourself if you find "contentment" in the thought that your life is meaningless.
What is truly freeing is discovering the real meaning for your life through Christ Jesus. We all have a purpose. We all have a responsibility to find and fulfill that purpose.
There are many "specks" who have blazed quite a trail and made a name for themselves in the world and are now long gone. Abraham Lincoln & Martin Luther King Jr. are just a couple of examples. Why do we remember them and celebrate them? Because they found their purpose and had the courage to fulfill it and made a difference in this world.
Their earthly bodies may have been absorbed back into the earth but their souls live on as well as the legacy they left behind.
2006-12-04 19:59:02 · answer #3 · answered by Pamela 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I know what you mean. I find it interesting how most people are uncomfortable with the idea that there might not be some "grand purpose" in life that we're all destined to fulfill. What if we really ARE just some billion-to-one longshot that will be here one minute and gone the next? Does that somehow make life less meaningful? Does that somehow hinder one's ability to enjoy all the things out there to enjoy? Even if our actions here don't amount to anything in some grand cosmic sense... so what? Our actions might not be meaningful in the broad scope of things, but they're meaningful to us, and they're meaningful right now... and at the moment that's all that matters.
2006-12-04 20:00:28 · answer #4 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can learn something from all things if you are wise. I have learned a lot about why and how people think here. But there's always something to learn even if it's a negative wisdom. I would like to know how you will be swallowed up again. Are you speaking in terms of Zen Buddhism who I believe think you just become part of nature's cycle again?
2006-12-04 20:02:40 · answer #5 · answered by neptune 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Often do I ponder upon that thought. It always present a challenge and that challenge leads me to gain knowledge so that I may understand life better. I found many circles here, the heart of man is a mystery.
2006-12-04 20:01:54 · answer #6 · answered by guidedlight 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have I ever considered that maybe there is no purpose to my life? Yep. Does it really matter whether my life has purpose or not? Nope. I am going to have a life, whether it is meaningless or meaningful, so I might as well conduct it as if it had meaning. And wouldn't that actually GIVE meaning to it? What if merely conducting your life as if it had meaning actually gives meaning to it?
2006-12-04 19:54:42 · answer #7 · answered by sbt3pephd 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually yes I have. But in fact, no one knows if there is meaning to life or not. I think there is, because what's the points then? We shouldn't even be here. But even if there's meaning to life, no one knows it. I live to achieve my goals, if I can't then my life to me would have no purpose.
2006-12-04 19:54:46 · answer #8 · answered by Alterna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOD IS LOVE AND HE LOVES YOU wether you believe in HIM or not HE believes in you, i don't think life is depressing, it can be hard at times but we have a GOD.... meaningless life?? what are u saying? that statement makes u sound like u are crazy or just really depressed. every knee shall bow and know that I AM GOD saith the LORD!! TURN FROM your doubt and believe GOD the maker of heaven and earth!
2006-12-04 20:02:14 · answer #9 · answered by hazel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Meaning of Life is the answer to this question:
God, what is Your purpose of Existence?
For God's purpose of Existence itself defines the purpose of all that exists.
I asked God that question...
God answered, "My purpose of Existence is To give life. Since you are made in My image after My likeness, then YOUR purpose of existence is to give life."
Everything that exists is an expression of God's thinking; thus, everything reflects God's thinking.
God gives life by His unique existence, and receives life when He gives life. All of existence gives life by its unique existence to that which receives life from its unique existence. This is Nature - the union of all living (eternal) things.
You are here to give life by your unique existence to that which receives life from your unique existence. So do what you love that nourishes those who love what you love.
This is your purpose.
To give life.
2006-12-04 19:56:44 · answer #10 · answered by Q 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋