2007-02-27 05:57:12 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
god
2007-02-27 05:59:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 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.....
2007-03-01 17:33:42 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is creating your own meaning for your own life-- doing something that makes you happy and contributing to society in some way.
We are on this world with others for a reason so I think it would be foolish not to incorporate the role of society in some way.
2007-02-27 06:06:40 · answer #3 · answered by McDiz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is the meaning of Life. Love is the reason and driving force behind everything in our universe. Without Love their is no Life.
2007-02-27 06:03:23 · answer #4 · answered by SOGWAP37 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that we have had the meaning of life all along. We just haven't recognized it yet. Life means different things to different people. For me it's nature and the individual.
2007-02-27 09:36:22 · answer #5 · answered by jimmy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mother Nature
2007-02-27 06:00:01 · answer #6 · answered by MaryBeth 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
42
2007-02-27 06:04:29 · answer #7 · answered by Souris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have the meaning of my life. That's all that matters
2007-02-27 06:10:17 · answer #8 · answered by dtwladyhawk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone one does, but it is up to you to find your meaning of life.
2007-02-27 06:05:26 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the meaning of life is death..."Think About It"....
2007-02-27 06:06:23 · answer #10 · answered by Dr.LOVE 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone. Each meaning unique to that individual.
2007-02-27 06:00:02 · answer #11 · answered by voandginger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋