lose oneself
2007-04-12 04:21:07 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The meaning of life is a continuous search for answers of who, what, where and how. It consist of finding acceptance and searching for happiness in a hostile environment. Rather my own opinion is accepted or not will determine the state of mind of the individual who reads it.
2007-04-12 04:54:48 · answer #1 · answered by Savage 7 · 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.....
2007-04-12 12:07:16 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To keep answering this question.... apparently.
Never a day goes by when another idiot doesn't pop the question here and get the same damned answer from me: THERE IS NO MEANING OF LIFE.
Give it up.
The Universe doesn't deal in purpose, beginnings nor ends... It certainly doesn't have any train of conscious thought nor any notion of intent. It does what it does and that is all there is to it. There is no why. There is no meaning.
2007-04-12 04:31:56 · answer #3 · answered by Nihilist Templar 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-04-12 04:25:20 · answer #4 · answered by Pumken 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
there is no meaning to life
the sooner you come to grips with that and just live it the better off you will be i mean come on are we any better then any other living thing just cause we can think about B>S stuff like this? do what makes you happy as long as your not hurting others
2007-04-12 04:36:59 · answer #5 · answered by chipzeke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you even mean by the phrase "meaning of life"? Do you mean purpose of Life in general? Purpose of your life? Or do you mean "What is the definition of Life?" a very tricky question indeed.
There is no such thing as Life and it has no meaning.
2007-04-12 06:05:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life has one certainty Death from this world.
Life is what you make it though
2007-04-12 04:24:27 · answer #7 · answered by Fadwa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im pretty sure its to sit down in front of a computer, log onto yahoo answers and ask "what is the meaning of this?"
2007-04-12 06:07:47 · answer #8 · answered by jesuschristenstein 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the great lessons is to take life for what it is and enjoy.
2007-04-12 05:10:43 · answer #9 · answered by square_dotzz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh I answered this question a couple of days ago. Not another one!
2007-04-12 04:25:49 · answer #10 · answered by emaf1uk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋