2007-04-04 16:38:34 · 16 answers · asked by steinman1983 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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.....
2007-04-04 18:57:31 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I deduce the meaning of life is to simply enjoy it as we would.
Consider all the things you do in your life, those things which you enjoy and those you don't. When you consider why you do them and then consider the motives for those reasons, I think you might find everything eventually boils down to the enjoyment of life.
I think life is like beauty: It's OK to question why it is, but it's more important to just experience it.
Never saw/read the Hitchhiker's Guide. Heard a little bit about it and realized it wasn't for me!
2007-04-04 17:08:06 · answer #2 · answered by Adashi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BLASPHEMER!!
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe was a great movie based on an incredible movie based on an awesome book!
I think the books bring about the right about one thing. You're not asking the right questions. Consider life's functions before you ask your question. Consider the goings on about you. The answer may just under our very noses and we wouldn't know it, because we're too busy asking questions of the stars.
2007-04-04 17:01:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Each person may have their own ideas but my thoughts would be this:
My meaning of Life is to experience the third dimension and learn from the experience each time I do so. The true meaning on a spiritual slant is that God experiences all of himself (his/her all that is), creation through his creation. We are part of his experience and are as probes or extensions of his awareness of this third dimension expression but only a small part, yet still a significant part. Rev. TomCat
2007-04-04 17:08:27 · answer #4 · answered by Rev. TomCat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps the question is unanswerable because it does not apply. For instance, this question, "What is the marital status of the number 5?" is unanswerable because there is no such thing. Am I saying life has no meaning? No I'm saying maybe it is meaningless to ask it.
For me, LOVE HaPPiness and gOOdness gives my life meaning...
Sorry if I am sappin up the place LoL
2007-04-04 16:50:06 · answer #5 · answered by Sereny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hated that movie and the book.
The meaning of life is to obtain happiness. Different people attempt to obtain happiness in a lot of different ways. Some people use drugs, others go to church, but everyone everywhere is seeking the same thing.
2007-04-04 18:24:03 · answer #6 · answered by Michael M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If anyone on this planet knew the absolute, one hundred percent answer to that question, we wouldn't continue to ask ourselves that question.
I can think of more important questions, more meaningful questions than this...
If you haven't seen Finding Forrester, you should. Focus on asking the soup questions. You'll get closer to a real answer for the meaning of life by asking those.
You can't leap to the moon, you can only baby step to it.
2007-04-04 16:44:32 · answer #7 · answered by Nathan D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time and love. I've found the answer to your question many times. As soon as I do I realize that "Yes, that's it." However, it then occurs to me that now that I know ---and I've lived past that realization, I then have to adjust that concept to whatever new realities present themselves. The one constant throughout this process is the desire, no, the need---for love and hopefully ---understanding. Be honest with yourself and search your true heart. And be easy with yourself. There's only one of you.
2007-04-04 16:51:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is for Living!
2007-04-04 16:43:21 · answer #9 · answered by You are all, weirdos. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This one's asked a couple times a day. Get original, dude! Or else get the Hitchiker's Guide...
2007-04-04 17:29:23 · answer #10 · answered by BuddyL 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋