2006-12-15 15:02:35 · 18 answers · asked by Maria 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
well i dont know what is the meaning of life, but
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2006-12-15 15:30:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 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.
2006-12-16 18:37:53 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my intro to phil class, I wrote a paper on the same topic. My conclusion - to be happy.
We debated it in class, and I was the only one with such an answer. Everyone else's answers either pertained to service - God and people and society - or reproduction and participation in the circle of life.
But, I got an A+ on my paper for its originality and for being well-researched. (I used my personal opinion about honesty being essential to happiness and researched what philosophers described as truth. That was a few years ago and now I'm not so sure about the whole honesty being essential for happiness thing. And really the whole paper started on the day the paper was due. I hadn't even chosen a topic yet and when I told the professor this he asked why I couldn't have told him the printers were down which happened all the time in the school and resources around campus were nil for printing. My paper was the answer to his question.)
That's probably more than you wanted to know, but I think it's slightly relative and definitely an interesting turn of events.
2006-12-15 23:10:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To understand the meaning of life one life is not good enough. Can you come back and ask me in the next life?
2006-12-15 23:33:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the meaning of life is to find a meaning.
2006-12-15 23:13:12 · answer #5 · answered by Gemini Girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This isn't a question that anybody can really answer. The meaning of life can be so many things. In order to find the answer you have to look inside yourself.
2006-12-15 23:13:00 · answer #6 · answered by cat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
life means to live
2006-12-15 23:09:22 · answer #7 · answered by fuufingf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-12-15 23:08:56 · answer #8 · answered by Joe Schmo from Kokomo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-15 23:10:59 · answer #9 · answered by scottr9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life – it has a meaning and loving purpose - you just have to find your purpose and live it.
I believe every person is here for a definite purpose. Each person is special and valuable; that refers to me, you, your family, friends, in fact everybody! There is a loving plan for each of our lives here on earth and there is no such thing as coincidence. I don't believe that anything in life happens by chance and that every aspect of our lives points to something deeper.
You need to decide now to live for God rather than for yourself. You spend your life on Earth preparing yourself (as best you can) for death. I don't see death as a scary, negative experience, but birth into a bliss filled eternal life with God. I believe that this is something you have to consciously choose or not during your life on earth.
The meaning of life is for us to discover that we are true children of an infinitely loving and merciful God, to find out what our responsibilities are to our Creator, and to fulfill those responsibilities. Each of us is called to affirm, accept and develop the talents God has given us. -
2006-12-15 23:41:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋