what is the point of life? Does the Human Race achieve anything within the universal framework?

Answer 1

Hard to say! But if every human being died, what difference would it make? There would be no-one left to pass an opinion. The world would just keep spinning and the universe would carry on just the same. So, when you think about it, whatever we do is irrelevant to everyone in the universe except us.

Answer 2

Within a UNIVERSAL framework?

ROFL. Do try NOT to be so silly!

A human being, looking at the stars, sees stars as they were BILLIONS of years before our PLANET cooled, because they're that far away.

From the time the Earth became a planet (call it midnight) until we humans infested it, has been 23 hours, and 57 minutes.

Within the 'universal framework' we achieve zip, zero, zilch. We are of no importance whatsoever -- except to the extent that we are destroying each other and the only planet we have...

Set your goals a little lower.

Think globally, act locally.

Do not do unto others, as you would wish they would not do to you.

Plant a tree.

Be carbon-neutral.

Hug your kids.

Love life, because you have it.

Practise senseless acts of beauty, and random acts of kindness.

Make someone smile.

Answer 3

The universe, being infinite, cannot have a framework, and the Human Race only achieves something within its own consciousness. In several million years, when the sun has engulfed our planet, there will be no conscious memory nor trace of our existence. In that sense, we achieve nothing. However, within the universe of our own consciousness, while that exists, we have everything to aim for.

Answer 4

1. Modern scepticism says that human life has no point or purpose (the person, above, who interpreted 'point' as 'meaning', and then proceeded to dismiss the question as unintelligible didn't read the question properly).

2. Modern theories of authenticity say that each human life has its own point or purpose - which may or may not be realised - but that human life per se has none. However, this idea is complicated because:

3. There exist, in the modern world, many ideologies/philosophies which claim that human life has a point or purpose.

Marxism: the politics of socialism.
Hegelianism: God's (Geist's) attainment of true self-knowledge.
Nietzscheanism: the creation and consumption of great art.
Nazism: racial struggle and the rise of a master race.
Utilitarianism: Happiness (captured in that incoherent phrase, "the greatest happiness of the greatest number").
Catholic Christianity: the fulfillment of God's Will.

There are others.

Given the existence of many competing ideologies, I believe that if there is an ultimate purpose of human life, we do not know what it is. Furthermore, our personal quests to discover our own ultimate purpose (assuming that we do seek such a purpose - although many do not) are made difficult by the fact that many different ends make claims upon us.

Answer 5

I think the fact we even have knowlage of the vastness of these multiple universes shows we have at least achieved something. We asume because space is so purplexingly big that there must be someone out there of higher intelligence but thats not necessarily true. It could be that we are the most technologically develpoed beings in the universe its not definate but it is possibe so in that respect i think we have achieved alot! - just thought id throw in an optimistic view there ;)

Answer 6

This is an excellent question. When people ask me that I tell them to be Happy. But actually as the first person said, if we all died, the world wouldn't stop. It wouldn't matter. Our relevance is only relevant to us. I think this is why man created this concept of god and the afterlife. To give our lives and our existence meaning. But the truth is, we're just a small portion of the circle of existence. Our lives mean nothing unless you can impress yourself upon someone else. And them on someone else. As long as our impressions last amongst the living so does our existence. But once that's gone, then so is our "importance". Jesus' impression, for example, has lasted for over 2000 years. But once humanity forgets him, his existence will mean nothing.

Answer 7

This is a pathetic question- You may ask what is so wrong with the question? One answer is that it is extremely obscure, if not downright unintelligible. It is unclear what exactly the question is supposed to be asking. Talk of meaning in other contexts does not offer ready analogies for understanding the phrase “the meaning of life.” When we ask the meaning of a word, for example, we want to know what the word stands for, what it represents. But life is not part of a language, or of any other sort of symbolic system. It is not clear how it could “stand for” anything, nor to whom. We sometimes use “meaning” in nonlinguistic contexts: “Those dots mean measles.” “ Those footprints mean that someone was here since it rained.” In these cases, talk of meaning seems to be equivalent to talk of evidence, but the contexts in which such claims are made tend to specify what hypotheses are in question within relatively fixed bounds. To ask what life means without a similarly specified context, leaves us at sea.

Answer 8

Depends if you believe in a guiding force such as god(s).
If not then humans are chemicals reacting to the laws of physics and we are just like a pebble rolling down a hill and bumping into other pebbles.

Answer 9

Well, friend. The point of life is to live, do your best in everything and worship Jesus. I think the greatest thing the human race has ever achieved is the birth of Jesus because He became human for our sakes, and that's not even something that we really achieved...that was all God! The point in life is to find what God's purpose for you is and then to carry it out...Btw: He loves YOU!

Answer 10

this isue is adressed in most religions and philosophies.my personal opinion is that there should be a point of life .I think that we are meant to be here for a reason,just look around you and think of all the privilige we have as humans;we have minds,souls,really good bodies,and all the other things in the universe that maintains our existence,sun,earth,oxygen........etc.
I beleive that humans are really unique creatures,they have many responsibilities ,for example they are responsiple for their actions
more than the rest of both living and non-livig organisms,so I suppose our great achievement is to take graet advantage of our potentials,try to be the best we can and make the world a better place .WE ARE THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, TRY TO BE THE MASTER OF YOUR OWN SELF