2006-12-19 05:26:03 · 10 answers · asked by *danny* 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The meaning of life is finding the answer to your question.
2006-12-19 05:48:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 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.
2006-12-19 10:41:19 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You live to be there for others and to have fun!
Don't think about the meaning of life! Nobody knows! Useless! Just have fun!
2006-12-19 05:34:57 · answer #3 · answered by RandomGrl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sadly, I think there is no meaning, but we stubbornly think there is one because else, what are we doing here?.
But since we humans are born nonconformists and need an excuse to live, you can make up whatever meaning it suits you, which is fact what makes us different from animals and defines each one of us. You build your own meaning.
My meaning of life could be living its fullest, yours to be helping others and so on...
2006-12-19 06:06:50 · answer #4 · answered by la_cangrejita 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is what ever you want it to be...The Power of Attraction
2006-12-19 05:47:53 · answer #5 · answered by ohiobuckndoe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To live life to the fullest and not try not to take anything for granted. Live happily but aware of your surrondings, learn from your mistakes and learn from others and just have fun because you only have one chance to live you dont get another chance.
2006-12-19 05:40:49 · answer #6 · answered by Journalism Geek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Awareness
2006-12-19 05:33:09 · answer #7 · answered by Answerer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To gain knowledge and wisdom and pass that wisdom on to others to better the lives of others.
2006-12-19 05:28:34 · answer #8 · answered by weebles 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life means you get to pay taxes, then die. Then your survivors get to pay taxes you accrued by dieing.
2006-12-19 05:39:20 · answer #9 · answered by bumppo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
42- predicted by the great deep-thought.
2006-12-19 05:35:25 · answer #10 · answered by Conor2007 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋