2007-02-02 15:14:20 · 19 answers · asked by kent z 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Catholics believe the meaning of human life is to know and love God.
With love in Christ.
2007-02-03 17:43:27 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 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.....
2007-02-02 16:22:13 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is an ongoing search for the truth.
2007-02-02 15:17:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
42
2007-02-02 15:20:55 · answer #4 · answered by -skrowzdm- 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To watch America's Next Top Model! Monday's on fox.
2007-02-02 16:18:11 · answer #5 · answered by Martyrtoprincipl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is found in the book of Ecclesiastes (old testament of the Bible)
Life is vanity without a life surrendered to God. Meaningless.
2007-02-02 15:18:45 · answer #6 · answered by Joan H 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Now thats a quite a question. In my opinon Life is to have fun and be happy....because we are all gonna die someday so just enjoy your youth.
2007-02-02 15:24:34 · answer #7 · answered by badmab07 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A cool look at the nature of existence and our purpose in life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0drT_L4G8w8
There are over 50 more along these lines here...
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ARIfilms
Have fun!
2007-02-05 18:27:53 · answer #8 · answered by mmhhhhhmmm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's definitely 42.
2007-02-02 15:23:48 · answer #9 · answered by JEHLERS 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Anyone who answers this will be very rich someday...but to me it is to pass on your knowledge to future generations and improve the human race as a whole.
2007-02-02 15:18:40 · answer #10 · answered by LadyJadra 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋