Well, Mr. Brendan, you are asking a question everybody has but know not the universal answer, means an answer which is agreed by all of the people. We keep on on our own answer, always. And by that individual answer, we are practicing it, derive ever aspects of our acts and thinking and emotions. But still, no one can give an answer everybody agree upon. For me, Life is a waiting phase, but a dynamic one, before I arrived at Death. I do it all alone, alone I came into this world, and alone will I leave this world.
2007-04-25 01:15:21
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answer #1
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answered by An I 1
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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.....
2007-04-25 07:04:18
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answered by Its not me Its u 7
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Do you want to know the truth? Are you willing to know it? Can you handle the truth? (Please pardon the reference to "A few Good Men")
We ask these things at times in our lives when we may not be ready yet to know them. All the same, we feel a deep desire to know. We have to know. We can't indefinitely remain in that darkness of ignorance. We stagnate there.
Maybe someone knows the real answer. Maybe the dead know. Maybe God knows. In fact, if anyone knows, it is God himself. Maybe King Solomon knew- he was the wisest man whom ever lived. There is a staggeringly small chance that some philosopher, probably deep in the mountains somewhere in the world, knows the answer. It may have been brought to him in a stark revelation or a profound vision.
We gaze at the sky with a sense of awe and wonder. We are grateful to be here. We don't intend any disrespect, but we have this deep need to ask the hard hitting questions. Perhaps God is disturbed by it- but so long as we remain respectful of Mother Nature and the universe, I see no harm in daring to ask. Clouds crawl across the sky. Wolves cry in the wilderness. The tides persevere forever. Change is the only thing constant in the cosmos. We are made from the dust of the earth, and we grow old, then pass away into memory. A solitary stone is left to mark the solemn but brief affair of our past lives. Aside from that: dust.
My friend, it's a great mystery. No one knows why we are here. I hope that we can keep asking these questions, though, because just simply embarking upon the journeys themselves creates a dignity and a significance all its own.
2007-04-24 23:55:08
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answered by Anonymous
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The meaning of life is to experience.
We are put here to experience life from various different perspectives. All this experience is filtered through the individual unconscious and eventually settles into the collective unconscious.
The collective unconscious plays a heavy part in defining our instincts as a species over time. But, more importantly than that, it is also a tome of humanity. And, by experiencing, and learning of self, we answer the one question God cannot address.. "Who am I?"
God is absolute, we are relative. An absolute being cannot define himself as "I", because there is nothing to be relative to "I" (if God is absolute, no thing could be Not God). We are the relative reflection of God, and the more we learn of ourself, the more God learns of himself by inference. And how do we learn of self?? By experiencing. thats it, thats the meaning of life..
To experience in a relative state so that an absolute being may have a better understanding of his own identity.
2007-04-24 22:50:59
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answered by The Big Lebowski 3
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"Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a compound of needs and necessities hard to satisfy; and that even when they are satisfied, all he obtains is a state of painlessness, where nothing remains to him but abandonment to boredom. This is direct proof that existence has no real value in itself; for what is boredom but the feeling of the emptiness of life?"
Schopenhauer
2007-04-25 04:19:28
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answered by progressive scan 3
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2007-04-24 22:43:40
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answered by planetmatt 5
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To find reasons not to die, as death is as much a choice among other more life embracing ones, such as exploring your limits while eating good food, seeking out quality and developing an attitude of excellence.
2007-04-24 23:11:46
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answered by Anonymous
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life has different meaning to everyone in a different way.
"when you die on your tomb stone will be written your name and your date of birth a little dash and your date of death, the two dates will be unimportant to most people, but the more important thing will be the dash in between the dates" (someone said it once)
if you lived your life to make people happy that's the meaning of your life
if you made other people's life a misery then your life had no meaning
2007-04-24 22:43:45
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answered by black_dahlia 5
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I know that I am getting so many points for answering this same question - 42 Check the Guide
2007-04-25 04:36:30
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answered by David 5
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Life isn't meaningful without creativity, adventure, learning, laughter, and joy. Is the deepest realities and inspires toward highest possibilities. Life is finding your fulfillment and happiness in oneself.
2007-04-25 05:29:04
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answered by Sabine 6
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