Do people really want answers to life's questions? Or do we just want the pursuit of answers? Isn't it true that every answer we receive closes our minds to the opposite potential answer? For instance, when a Christian "discovers" than Jesus is the only way to salvation, their minds are closed to all other options. When someone "discovers" that evolution is true, their mind is closed to the other options. It would seem that the only way to remain open-minded is to be agnostic...always searching but never coming to a real answer.
So do people really want answers and want to close their minds? Or would you rather remain open-minded at the risk of never knowing anything for certain?
Blessings in the Light of Christ!
~Embracing my Pangelism
2007-03-29 10:03:21 · 8 answers · asked by Guvo 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There are no answers. All of the questions about life are really attempts to find meaning. There is no meaning other than what we decide is meaningful to us. Mostly people try to trick themselves in to believing this or that is inherently meaningful, but all they're really doing is assigning meaning in such a way that makes it seem that it comes from something external, something other than themselves. Whatever meaning you find is meaning you yourself are creating.
2007-03-29 10:15:58 · answer #1 · answered by RabidBunyip 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why act like we really know in the first place? To live in the here and now is to experience life at a different realm - the ultimate enlightenment.
Live by the golden rule. Live for the here and now. To be agnostic is to be free.
2007-03-29 10:11:04 · answer #2 · answered by Virgo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The thing that people value most is feeling valuable. Whether yu r rich or poor or smart or dumb, or healthy or sick...yu want others to value yu, what yu do and say and think... Read that in a great book called the Cowbell Principle
2014-12-12 21:19:23 · answer #3 · answered by Kelly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give me a break!
You're a wanna be philosopher and you fall way short.
I would suggest that you give up the drugs, and
come on down from the clouds.
When someone encounters excrement and "Discovers" that it "Smells really bad", they know for "Certain" to walk around it so as not to step in it!!
Duh!!
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You really know nothing about the light of Christ!
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2007-03-30 03:36:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To have fun with a minimal amount of damage.
2007-03-29 10:07:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
People want, basically, to be HAPPY. We all do whatever it takes to be happy... check out the ole' Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs... that'll illustrate what people want.
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2007-03-29 10:06:50 · answer #6 · answered by vinslave 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
love happiness respect and money
time to travel
why waste time on lies when we have truth already?
2007-03-29 10:07:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
come on. this is obvious.
people want
Chinese food.
2007-03-29 10:07:36 · answer #8 · answered by philosophizer 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋