2007-03-01 06:37:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Dude...spend your life wondering that and you've wasted it...YOU decide what the meaning of your life is....there is not just one meaning....
Stop wondering and instead get out and LIVE it up!!
2007-03-01 06:41:20 · 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.....
2007-03-02 00:12:33 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life would have to apply to all life, past, present and future. It must apply to all life, great and small. It must apply to all life, plant and animal. It must apply to all life, developed and underdeveloped. It would then effect every aspect of life. After applying this criteria I've come up with this answer. Communicate and become the best communicator you can be.
2007-03-01 19:13:55 · answer #3 · answered by tot 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Other than some subjective "meaning", why does life HAVE to have a meaning?
Do you ever think, that just maybe, there is no objective meaning?
2007-03-01 14:53:55 · answer #4 · answered by Tine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
life means you have the potential to become a "living " creature sperm and egg cells have life but they cannot live because they don,t have the systems to live.( respiratory, circulatory, digestive and so on). once these systems are fully developed and functioning then we are capable of living ,or extracting the things from nature that we need to sustain ourselves. In a nutshell, life is animate existence and living is sustained animate existence. (sustained through our own efforts)
2007-03-01 14:52:13 · answer #5 · answered by george h 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the best answers I've seen is in Rick Warren's book, The Purpose-Driven Life. (Link below.)
2007-03-01 14:42:28 · answer #6 · answered by Investor 2006 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love gives meaning to our lives – as do friendship or art or faith in God. These are factors of true happiness, of inner peace, of feelings of harmony, allowing meaning to our existence.
2007-03-01 14:43:08 · answer #7 · answered by Inquirer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its unveiling who you really are, so that the eyes of humanity can lift your nature on to a divine revelation.
2007-03-01 14:43:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The one who dies with the most toys wins.
2007-03-01 14:47:34 · answer #9 · answered by Micheal A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To love God
2007-03-01 14:40:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋