2007-04-18 13:04:23 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous 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.....
2007-04-18 13:28:48 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no "meaning of life" but each life has it's own meaning.
2007-04-18 21:25:05 · answer #2 · answered by Walt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to find the meaning of life
2007-04-18 20:21:35 · answer #3 · answered by aridan_wyrmtooth 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eggs
2007-04-18 20:14:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unconditional love. your purpose in life is to awaken to your unity with God in unconditional love within your own heart. Your duty is to express that to the best of your ability.
2007-04-18 21:31:43 · answer #5 · answered by Weldon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being happy. Enjoy everything around you and be kind to yourself as well as everyone else. Remember, what matters is what happens between now and when you die, so live.
2007-04-18 20:14:37 · answer #6 · answered by Colin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to balance losing your five points by re-asking a tired question verses my gain of two points for typing a sarcastic reply
2007-04-18 20:09:55 · answer #7 · answered by BANANA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/life
:-)
2007-04-18 20:34:03 · answer #8 · answered by night_train_to_memphis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to love one another
2007-04-18 20:09:42 · answer #9 · answered by MST 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋