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2007-02-16 07:53:44 · 12 answers · asked by carol a 1 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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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.....

2007-02-16 12:01:27 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0 0

You are asking an age-old question! Why are people still asking? Because there is no set answer to the question. One cannot take a sentence with the definition of the meaning of life and have it fit with all the diversity in the universe. The American Indian Tribes' meaning of life would be so different than my hillbilly - two-seat er outhouse meaning. If there is an answer out there you wouldn't need to ask, now would you? The question is MOOT! sorry to have to be the one to tell you!

2007-02-20 06:58:17 · answer #2 · answered by missellie 7 · 0 0

The meaning of life is to find the meaning of life. You can only do this by transcending your mind, so start now! You're on this Earth for a reason, so learn something deeper from your experiences here and you'll be on your way to finding the meaning of life!

2007-02-16 09:25:52 · answer #3 · answered by theJUMPoff 2 · 0 0

Life? life
life is like cooking some fish in a particular utensil that can make a delicious cook it is also a kind of thing that everyone can not avoid ..life can be bad and good ....bad because most of the time we use to do things that are bad happily rather than doing good things...sometimes being good can get you to some bad things like being rub by someone or being hold up and sometimes kill you because of helping someon....,.if you think life changes by God...life ends without a exact reasons..life get dumb by others and think its not important and try to commit suicides,,,like jumping above billboards, being hit by a train, and commit gun shot on the head...life can be a quesionable thing because everyone of us has his or her fear in what will hppen when you are in the middle of the road, alone and think that some one is following you

Life is not enough to be explain in this particular topic because of Life is a general topic that can be a research proposal thats all

2007-02-16 09:56:44 · answer #4 · answered by Klash Ink 1 · 0 0

The meaning of life is different for everyone. Some people its money, some its having children, its just different.

2007-02-20 06:08:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I didn't realize life had a meaning.

2007-02-16 07:59:42 · answer #6 · answered by Neb 2 · 0 0

the meaning TO BE OR NOT TO BE?

2007-02-16 08:07:53 · answer #7 · answered by Feras S 1 · 0 0

It means get it together 'cause for sure one o'
these days you're gonna die.

2007-02-16 07:57:06 · answer #8 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0 0

God says "this has been asked so many times"
get over it

2007-02-16 08:03:11 · answer #9 · answered by go4itgirl 3 · 0 0

life is a ocean..dip into the ocean..and find your desire.

2007-02-16 09:50:31 · answer #10 · answered by sneha 2 · 0 0

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