Why dont we all lay back and enjoy it?
2006-12-13 03:08:00 · 17 answers · asked by pageys 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I think, some of you, should look up the word inevitable.
2006-12-13 03:25:30 · update #1
80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask this question...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 and the inevitable is going to happen.
2. Life has a million meanings, and the inevitable will happen anyway.
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 the inevitable oblivion.
2006-12-13 12:07:32 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Logical IF we know it's inevitable. But most times we don't really know what is and what is NOT inevitable. So why not try to take your fate into your own hands? What do you have to lose?
2006-12-13 11:21:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Then we would be no more than inanimate objects subject to the currents of the sea, rather than navigators on it. The only inevitable is how we ourselves deal with the world and what life throws at us.
2006-12-13 11:19:06 · answer #3 · answered by stephen t 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is the 'inevitable' to which you are referring?
How is it possible to consider something when one does not know what it is?
You question requires some boundaries.
2006-12-13 15:43:05 · answer #4 · answered by interested_party 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rather, lets all sit back and loathe the inevitable.
2006-12-13 11:21:26 · answer #5 · answered by kormiku 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it is still dependant on action to come about. It is the prior action that makes the even enevitable. Unless you agree that we are living in a random world without physical laws
2006-12-13 12:21:12 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that would be wonderful to do... but, the mind tends to worry regardless of logic sometimes; then again, there's always that temptation of "what if there is something that can be done to change our fate?" or ""how much time is left to experience the best of life?" and these are questions that don't let the mind rest easy
2006-12-13 11:17:55 · answer #7 · answered by alias101 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As though life were a spectators sport. Who pays ? This is going no-where fast.
2006-12-13 11:23:47 · answer #8 · answered by Conway 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only sure things in life, are death and taxes. So all we can do is live to pay, til the day were dead and buried.
2006-12-13 11:16:58 · answer #9 · answered by robertosnowager 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps it's inevitable that we don't.
2006-12-13 11:09:44 · answer #10 · answered by fatherf.lotski 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋