2007-04-25 07:47:36 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It's too short, we take it for granted, and sometimes we waste it.
2007-04-25 08:12:17 · answer #1 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 3⤊ 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.....
2007-04-25 08:31:05 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the wrong question. The right question is "Why are we alive and here today?"
The answer to that question is "Because we asked to be here, now."
That's right. It's volunteer work. We WANTED to be here. We WANTED to experience this.
So relax and live life to it's fullest.
2007-04-25 08:20:25 · answer #3 · answered by MrKnowItAll 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whatever you want. You were put on this earth for a short while, so make the best of it
2007-04-29 01:59:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has no meaning of its own, only the meaning you bestow upon it.
2007-04-25 08:59:35 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To realize, persue, and acheive your desires. This is given that Spinoza said, I believe, that man is a creature of desire, not need. (Please correct me if I am wrong. I've been studying and contemplating desire, lately, and have a blur of names attached to the topic.)
2007-04-25 08:11:28 · answer #6 · answered by sjsosullivan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Living it or to live it.
2007-04-25 08:47:32 · answer #7 · answered by Izen G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
42.
2007-04-25 07:55:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The immediate precedence to death.
2007-04-25 10:01:45 · answer #9 · answered by krneel128 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
life is what you are living silly! you didnt even know? how old are you?
2007-04-25 07:56:02 · answer #10 · answered by x 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋