2006-12-19 03:32:52 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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.
2006-12-19 10:46:56 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
U mean the meaning of life?
I'll tell u theres alwayz a meaning of life but its different 4 every person coz everyone has got a meaning of life and finds that out during his life, some do find earlier than other but there is a meaning 4 living 4 everybody. so its a question which has got many answers and opinions.
tc bye-shamanta
2006-12-19 03:44:48 · answer #2 · answered by shamanta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The faculty of capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive or ratiocinative faculty.
The state that precedes death and follows birth or conception.
The reason for life is to have something going on between your birth and your death.
2006-12-19 03:37:25 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sigh.
For many Life has no reason. For many others Life "IS" the Reason.
Steven Wolf
2006-12-19 03:36:14 · answer #4 · answered by DIY Doc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason or the purpose of our life is to serve the god's cause. He sends us here to do his work. Or have his work done through us.
2006-12-19 03:36:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can say there is really no reason. Its just bunch of chemical reactions. Reason is a result of these chemical reaction in the brain. But thats just one objective view.
2006-12-19 04:31:35 · answer #6 · answered by visualmaximus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no reason. It's just free energy at the surface of the earth recycling itself.
2006-12-19 03:59:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is to live. That is all.
Think about it.
2006-12-19 03:49:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life exists for one and only one reason:
To glorify God, life's creator.
Man exists for one and only one reason:
To glorify God, by enjoying Him forever.
2006-12-19 05:27:54 · answer #9 · answered by onenameym 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
whats the reason for animals? all they do is eat, or try to eat
2006-12-19 03:35:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋