2007-01-23 13:56:58 · 17 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.
To be or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is inevitable.....
2007-01-23 17:54:01 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Settle down with a cool girl and live life to the fullest. Thats what i think the meaning of life is. I could alwasy be wrong.
2007-01-23 22:02:01 · answer #2 · answered by Tabby H 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-01-23 22:03:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life – it has a meaning and loving purpose - you just have to find your purpose and live it.
I believe every person is here for a definite purpose. Each person is special and valuable; that refers to me, you, your family, friends, in fact everybody! There is a loving plan for each of our lives here on earth and there is no such thing as coincidence. I don't believe that anything in life happens by chance and that every aspect of our lives points to something deeper.
You need to decide now to live for God rather than for yourself. You spend your life on Earth preparing yourself (as best you can) for death. I don't see death as a scary, negative experience, but birth into a bliss filled eternal life with God. I believe that this is something you have to consciously choose or not during your life on earth.
The meaning of life is for us to discover that we are true children of an infinitely loving and merciful God, to find out what our responsibilities are to our Creator, and to fulfill those responsibilities. Each of us is called to affirm, accept and develop the talents God has given us. -
2007-01-23 23:32:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created the world, which means He owns it, which means He makes the rules. and you better find out what He wants. God put you on this planet so you could live a good life, and have a good influence on others. you should try to achieve that. your goal in life should be to serve God.
"the best way to spend your life is to do something that outlasts it."
2007-01-23 22:01:37 · answer #5 · answered by sportzgurl 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For a start, yours! A heart that pounds per second.
Second, mine! And you pound for the answer I gave.
Third, theirs! That listens and can't do anything about my answer but to comment.
Fourth,... what is it that makes one punder?
Fifth, ... knowing that girl in your picture which I presume is you.
Sixth, ... life is as it is. And you can't do anything about it but decide if you could give me 10 points in this answers of mine, which I dear hold as the very life as is, as now.
Seventh, ... life continues and goes on and on... 20 points.
Eight, .... your beautiful with your eyes and mustach and your beards and a your... list continues... 30 points.
Ninth, ... thanks for the 2 points that the Yahoo! Answer.
Tenth, ... thank you anyway for the question as it goes as it should as I could not do anything about it. Peace.
2007-01-23 22:28:43 · answer #6 · answered by wacky_racer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many meanings of life. Each person has more than one and each are different for each person.
2007-01-24 04:57:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOVE is your purpose...you might want to go on a lifelong quest discovering what it is! And don't forget to love people in the mean time! Only unconditional love can come from God...he drew you out of loving kindness...that is why you need it so bad and need to give it out....and only Jesus can show you the path so listen to Him and He will love you.
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us." (1John 4:7-12 NIV)
2007-01-23 22:16:19 · answer #8 · answered by lovel art 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you will get on your knees and ask the spirit of God into you and then ask of it and listen and do what is told to you them that's your meaning for YOUR life, not mine, Yours. Peace.By the way it seems simple, It is,with faith, you must have faith.
2007-01-23 22:08:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when we are truly trying to love others and when we are thinking of them rather than ourselves,then we are far from questioning the meaning of life.and something we have to aim at in order to get ,while other things comes us when we aim at something else.
2007-01-24 01:32:06 · answer #10 · answered by learn and accept 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋