it's almost impossible to comprehend the mystery and the infinity of life... no matter how much we try.. we cant comprehend life totally and rationally... at best our perceptions are just an assumption.. so is it possible to live our lives completely even when we fail to define the absolute meanings of life and its purpose?
2007-03-26 21:35:22 · 15 answers · asked by x 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Absolute understanding of life cannot be relative to a person. For such understanding to occur, one must become detached from self-identification, otherwise no 'absolute' definition can arise.
If we are to identify ourselves within our mortality, our lives can never be complete, but what shapes the ascendant man participating in the world is a progression from ideal to wider ideal, where completion would be entropy.
2007-03-26 21:48:30 · answer #1 · answered by Sorrowful W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes lives still be complete. There is no reason you need a complete understanding of life to be complete. No one in the past has ever had a complete understanding of life and a good number of these people lead complete lives.
Understanding everything about the Universe and life will not make a person a better person. In fact it could make this person more annoying.
2007-03-27 04:46:46 · answer #2 · answered by Carl P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes! we don't need to understand anything about astronomy to appreciate the wonder and beauty of the night sky sprinkled with countless stars....does having knowledge of why the sky turns so many beautiful shades of color during a sunset help us in admiring it's beauty?
A flower blooming and spreading it's fragrance doesn't have any meaning....hanging out with friends and laughing doesn't have any meaning....so many things don't have any intrinsic meaning but yet these things can give a life much meaning.
Maybe life doesn't have a meaning or purpose....or maybe we have to give it a meaning or purpose of our choosing....as for understanding the absolutes of life, maybe it's meant to be a mystery...I don't think an understanding of these mysteries are necessary to live our life completely...or to feel complete. Maybe our only incompleteness comes from not knowing Self.
"Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved."
2007-03-27 19:22:19 · answer #3 · answered by .. 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes we can. We dont understand the meaning of life because we are so into it. We always create our own big goal and sometimes too high standard of living as well. Be thankful for what you are and for what you have got. Bear in mind that we should be aware of surrounding. Only this way we can fully realize that we are living in real world with all its happiness and pain which can make appreciate life more
2007-03-27 04:45:49 · answer #4 · answered by Melanie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we can because I am living everyday without knowing what the next second might bring for me.I am still living without Knowing Who actually Gave this world life.I am still living without knowing who first called life 'life'.I live completely even when I fail to define the absolute meaning of life.
This is what I call life!!!
2007-03-28 11:10:56 · answer #5 · answered by ♥The ≈ μŊđīş¢¤vέřệÞ ≈ Me♥ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think we can, it depends on what you think a complete life is! Do you think that a life in which you don't need ask yourself anything is a complete life? Searching for answers is part of our nature and by cutting that off we would certainly not be complete!! Pico Della Mirandola( an italian philosopher) says that men are made greater than angels becouse men can evolve, angels cannot, they remain the way they were created!! So my answer is that our life is completed by our thirst of knowledge and that it gets higher everytime we find an answer!!
2007-03-27 04:46:39 · answer #6 · answered by zanazorilor 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
what is a complete life anyway?...again it's just a perception... 'complete' can mean different things to different people...some may find going through life without even trying to rationalise it or understand it fulfilling...others may think it's a complete waste...
does life even have a purpose...some grand, unknown design...or is it just meant to be lived, just being happy (or trying to be), and making others so...
...actually, you will find that people who don't try to understand the mysteries and purpose of life, who are not concerned with the why's and what for's of life are generally happier than others...all they know is that they are born, they have to live, and one day thay will die...they go through each phase of life without questioning...the established process...
is that a complete life....i say.. yes!!...
2007-03-28 05:57:41 · answer #7 · answered by S 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
uh, none of us ever live our lives completely, none of us ever reach our full potential, or do everything we should or could do to live the best possible lives and to best enrich the lives of others.
but
It is certainly possible to live a very rewarding and productive life without ever having a clue as to what is really going, because, as you pointed out...
none of us really knows what is going on. You can count and count and count, but you'll never get to infinity...
2007-03-27 04:55:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If we have a complete unsterstanding of life, what would be the point. It's the little, unexpected things that pop up, that really make our lives complete, and fun.
2007-03-27 04:46:45 · answer #9 · answered by Mummabear 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We weren't meant to know all....It takes a lifetime to completely know ourselves and sometimes we never make it. Mostly, we just have to decide what kind of person we want to be and want we most enjoy and be satisfied with the journey. Easier said than done I know.
2007-03-27 04:42:21 · answer #10 · answered by NeNe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋