why are we here?

Answer 1

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.


To be or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is inevitable.....

Answer 2

we are the consequence of the true nature of "god" - we are what there would be if there was a god --- i'm not an atheist, nor am i a theist; i believe that the nature of god is conscious nonexistence --- you might say that we are here because we are the answer to a question; the question itself is irrelevant (answers, as much as the questions that go to them are essentially subjective) the answer being, well... i just don't know; but i think it begins with, "What if..." --- although this begins as a question, it is most likely an answer.
I might be crazy, so what i think probably shouldn't be taken seriously... but maybe there's some flicker of truth in that too.

Answer 3

Once upon a time a cell divided. The rest is history.

Answer 4

I love that commercial for some TV show I don't know the name of but the girl asks the guy "why do we have to die?" and he says "so that life has a meaning".(or something to that effect)
that is so true

Answer 5

To answer questions and get our questions answered or to find what other people think or discovers other opinions.

Answer 6

To Die, basically whats gonna happen

Answer 7

Because....