Have all of the hard questions been asked?

Question

Have all of the important questions been asked about ourselves?

What is the meaning of life? Who are we? Why are we here? Have all of the questions been asked already and now are only being recycled for the benifit of future generations?

If they have been asked why haven't they been answered yet?

Please explain your answers. Thanks

Answer 1

We just keep asking the hard questions over and over again until we get answer's we like. Why of all worlds does this world exist? How can there be only one universe if the universe is said to have a finite existence? In the same way that the world is made of atoms and is perceived solid by us could not our whole universe be the atom of something more? And why couldn't a single proton hold on it an entire world?

Answer 2

Hardly. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Also the population of Y! A is changing all the time. Someone just joins...rubs his eyes & asks....'What is the meaning of life' not knowing its been asked a 100 times. But the answerers also keep changing so we may get new perspectives too. Its all fun !

Answer 3

I asked the meaning question a few years back and got an interesting answer.

I ask this same question about meaning once in a meditation. The answer came clear as a bell.

It said I have placed you here to learn the true meaning of Love. What ever it was that was answering then told me something that really set me back. It said that I felt the way I did about certain people because I did not understand the true meaning of love. I protested and said that I did my best to love all of the people who were deserving of love.

It replied "yes that is your misunderstanding. You see love as something that you dole out in tiny little portions here and there to people who you have judged to be worthy of it. This is not love at all, it is only judgment". This stopped me dead in my tracks. I suddenly realized that what it was saying to me was true. This realization brought me to tears. It went
on and told me, "You treat love as though there is some shortage of it. It is not something that you can run out of. The more love that you give, the more love that there is in the world. Its that simple. The only way that there can be a shortage of it is if you hoard it and keep it to yourself."

It went on to explain, that "this is what Jesus was trying to tell you when he asked you to turn the other cheek, to judge not and to love your neighbor. He made no exceptions in these things that he requested of you. Why are you making exceptions, and judging some as worthy of love and others as not? Jesus fully intended for you to apply this love that you are to all, in a universal manner without any judgment of any sort". By this time the tears Were flowing freely. I was crying because for the first time in my life I Understood what the message Jesus left for us in the bible actually meant.

This has become my truth. I can't say what yours is for sure, but I have a feeling that it is probably similar.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 4

___The meaning of life ? Life doesn't have a meaning; statements have meanings. Life has an intrinsic purposefulness.
___Who are we? The pronoun "who" doesn't lend itself to questions of this sort. The best answer for a question is for "us" to gicve our names and maybe a little description.
Why are we here? Wittgenstein said, "Not HOW the world is, is the mystical, but THAT it is. Existence doesn't have a "why". Existence is, well, just there.
___The notion of HUMAN existence that is rolled into such questions is a legacy of Sartre, who was very skilled as a celebrity intellectual, but sort of left a smudge on the history of modern philosophy. He began with the ideas of Husserl, who tried to present a scheme of how we make sense of our experience in a way that didn't take the world's existence for granted. But Husserl had no quarrel with the world's existence. He failed in the end to devise a system that included a way for us to convince ourselves that the world was real, and Sartre took this failure as if it reflected the fact of the human circumstance, and prematurely flung himself headlong into ethical problems without doing the necessary preliminaries. At any rate, these questions of human "existence" are derived from the presupposition of subjectivism, the notion that we're cooped up in our little minds and can't get out. And this problem in turn, stems from trying to reason that the world is real, instead of just experiencing it directly. The idea was that we experience our own "existence" first, and deduce that of the world from it. (But if I whack you in the head with a 2x4, I can disable your capacity to doubt the world's existence. The world wins.)
___But dogs and infants don't doubt the world's existence; they experience it as real before having the capacity to think about it. That is, they behave in the world as beings for which the world is real. The existentialist notion of human existence is just a metaphor, in the end, and not a very good one. So don't get tripped up by it. It's more accurate to say that we live than that we exist. Maybe that we occur, or happen, within the material bodies whose flesh exists. The "we", the persons, are profoundly sophisticated behaviors of cognition engaged in by mature higher animals called homo sapiens. But that's a long story.
___But don't think that this means that we're just meat machines. The freedom we attain is real, thanks to quantum indeterminacy and the butterfly effect.
___These questions are the consequences of achieving the freedom that comes with adult consciusness. Freedom is necessary counterpart of power. (If you get power, you get the vertigo of having to decide what to do with it, along with the responsibility for the outcomes.) At any rate, mental freedom allows us to combine concepts in nonsensical ways, and some of the nonsense is not obvious. The first three questions are of this type. And nonsensical questions have no answers. They continue to persist in the culture for the purpose of messin' with the minds of undergrads.
___One reason for some of the confusion today is that quantum physics has been discovered but not presuppositionally digested. On one hand the postmodernists exploit it to justify their absurd skepticisms, and on the other hand physicalists forget that our language and logical presuppositions are still shaped by classical physics. If the physicalists were circumspect, they'd realize that the whole notion of physicality is changed by quantum physics, so the task of reducing mind to physiology isn't what it seems to be.
___I hope this is sufficient explanation.

Answer 5

They have been answered thousands of times. People either don't accept the answers or haven't heard them yet.

Answer 6

The questions have been asked, but the milieu within which they get answered always changes, so they must be revisited.

Answer 7

If they have been asked why haven't they been answered yet?
Because there are no easy answers.

Answer 8

1-because we cant answer them with 100% ACCURACY!
2-50% wont accept w/e answer is given, 50% will accept it
3-no cares
4-IT CANNOT BE ANSWERED

Answer 9

we have all the answers in life... look around you... but we do not have al the questions...