Then what is the purpose for us being here?
2007-01-20 07:55:40 · 16 answers · asked by mc 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I am not asking you to tell me what to believe. I have a belief. Please stick to the question. Thanks for all responses.
2007-01-20 08:32:23 · update #1
If we believe that our lives have a purpose, then we must also believe that we were created for a purpose. If we were not created for a purpose and just "appeared" here, then what's the purpose in living? Without being created for a purpose, we have no purpose.
2007-01-20 15:14:08 · answer #1 · answered by nickname 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If so many people believed in Him throughout history, than it would be impossible for Him NOT to exist. Even if He didn't, the belief and souls of those who were created Him. I'm not a fanatic, but as a humanist, I tell you there can be no definite answer to anything, so stop worrying about there being no Creator. If the soul exists, what I just said above could give you a satisfying answer. It's up to you to decide if you believe or not. If you don't, that means you will have no life after death; if you do, you MIGHT just have it. If you ask me, you've got nothing to loose if you believe at least a little, in your "own God". If anything, it will make you feel better, and feel like you have a purpose.
2007-01-20 08:11:00 · answer #2 · answered by lucantropeea 2 · 2⤊ 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.....
2007-01-20 09:37:39 · answer #3 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there is a creator. SOMETHING put everything together in the universe.
If you need to find a purpose and don't believe in a creator, then become a creator yourself. Create away at whatever makes you feel good. Unless that would include making others unhappy or killing others or something else just as ugly.
2007-01-20 08:06:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no purpose, we are here we live we die why does there have to be a purpose. Before we got this notion that we were special because some "god" made us did humans believe that they were usless... NO. There doesn't always have to be something that we as humans are supposed to fufill. The only thing that I can say is the purpose for us being here is to live. You only get one life make the most of it don't throw it away, make a name for yourself so you will be remembered... eternal life=being remembered.
2007-01-20 10:08:24 · answer #5 · answered by Satan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If there is no Creator, then the purpose of our lives is to find some meaning which we can use to make what time we have bearable. If there is no Creator, then all we have are the days we wake in...it is then our obligation, to OURSELVES, to make that day something we will not regret when we look back on it. If there is no Creator, then we have an obligation to the generations that come after us to leave something behind which they can look on to remember that we were...thus, we gain immortality.
2007-01-20 08:58:16 · answer #6 · answered by aidan402 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why ponder this when there is a creator? If you still dont believe, no problem at all, just serve your fellow man. that is enough. Dont worship, just serve mankind, at least then you know when you die that you have done good. Wealth is not good unless it used for a good reason. Dont retire to the forest, fed up with life. Renouncing the material world is good, but you can do much better if you keeps working, and with limits on one's desire, we can accomplish more.
2007-01-20 08:10:04 · answer #7 · answered by Emp Ani 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well this "short" life is the longest thing anyone has ever experienced. So live every day to the fullest and be happy and it will seem longer. And I myself do not believe in a God and therefore also believe that when we die we do actually die and not go on to some other life. So, I will not waste my time in this life, I will treat it as the only life I will ever have and not shy away from what I believe as the truth because living life in fear of your ultimate demise is pointless.
2007-01-20 12:21:09 · answer #8 · answered by Liz 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The problem of the Creator as you put it is a question of morality. What you really want to know is how can there be morality if there is no ultimate authority? Or, in other words still, how can anything have value if there is no ultimate judge over the value of things?
If you seek such an authority and if such an authority is essential for you to find meaning to life, then a type of Judeochristian God will be necessary to you. A God that not only creates, but also judges creation, assigns value to things.
But if you accept to remove yourself from the idea that things must have an ultimate value, your problem dissolves itself. In that case, values are assigned to things. It is not a question of authority, it is a question of believing things can have value simply because one is attached to them and cares to foster them. There might still be a supreme entity, but perhaps His role is not judgment at all, perhaps he's simply there to assure existence.
2007-01-20 08:15:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, it's nothing very special. Uh, try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try to live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations. quote form the Meaning in life from Monty Python.
I'd rather have you read the following link. It should answer your question.
2007-01-20 08:06:01 · answer #10 · answered by Carl 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋