2007-02-23 05:54:29 · 14 answers · asked by momba 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Live life to it's fullest, never stay in one place to long, laughter is the best medicine, never expect anything from a friend except their friendship. Travel the world, take long walks down the beach, learn to sail, go Lobster diving in the Florida Keys. Never lie to anyone for any reason, hold the ones you love close and let them know that you Love them. Do not get caught up in the rat race, material possessions weigh you down, they own you, you don't own them. Keep life simple, avoid big city's. Listen to the waves slapping the beach. Never dwell on the past. Keep your mind occupied with pleasant thoughts. Smell and learn the names of flowers. Take a walk on the wild side. Pick your own path. Remember, life is short, and there isn't a hitch on a hearse. When it's over its over, this is not a dress rehearsal. Enjoy yourself=) Waterfalls make me happy. Learn to Captain your own ship.
2007-02-23 06:12:06 · answer #1 · answered by Cheryl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.....
2007-02-23 06:14:48 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I ask this same question 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
2007-02-23 12:45:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There must have been millions of questions "what's the meaning of life" before, so why can't you just check the previous answers?
2007-02-23 06:11:30 · answer #4 · answered by Barbara V 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A movie written, produced, and performed by the six comedic minds that make up Monty Python's Flying Circus.
2007-02-23 06:02:28 · answer #5 · answered by sarge927 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Life is what it is, yours is what you make it.
2007-02-23 07:13:49 · answer #6 · answered by xenomorph** 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the answer I used seven questions ago, 'To have fun and learn enough not to make me answer this question again.'
2007-02-23 06:47:18 · answer #7 · answered by shmux 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being content
2007-02-23 06:00:03 · answer #8 · answered by Golden Smile 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To live and love puppies.
2007-02-23 07:36:28 · answer #9 · answered by lisateric 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To know what will happen after.
2007-02-23 05:58:36 · answer #10 · answered by quiznberry 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋