I surprised I have never seen this question on here. Perhaps I have not been in the right place.
2007-04-25 22:57:51 · 20 answers · asked by Mark J 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I tought it was collecting stars on YA and no one has given me one for this. Go on give me a star.
2007-04-25 23:36:52 · update #1
The meaning of life is: 2
2007-04-25 23:00:04 · answer #1 · answered by Bobbo 5 · 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.....
2007-04-26 15:42:15 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can anyone really answer this? The meaning of life is what we give it. We need to convince ourselves that what we know, needs to be applied or ignored.
In the whole scheme of things, we ask what is the point of it all?
If we haven't got a spiritual side, there may be no point at all (I am not talking about religion), but if you are religious, your meaning of life is based on your beliefs and are set.
The meaning of life is in each of us and what we put value on.
We don't know if there is a purpose for us being here, so we give life our own purpose, what we put value on, what feeds the soul and makes the spirit soar.
Sorry, poor answer because we can't know....
When someone says, not that question again, they don't realise the wonderful opportunity there is for debate on this subject.
Even philosophers try and avoid it!
2007-04-26 12:43:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be introspective, all knowing, inner-balanced and specifically human. There is no reason for us being here, there are no wrong or right answers - decide upon what you will, but what is definite is that we exist, and we're within a delicately balanced web of organisms. We're founded upon co-existence and self-preservation hand-in-hand. We can only see what exists in our universe, but we can assume whatever we like - we can only assume something exists out of its boundaries, who knows!? But the only life-line we have is that we can continually search for knowledge and improve our quality of life.
2007-04-26 07:10:59 · answer #4 · answered by facelessdefacer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We humans are the embodiment of the divine nature. When it's said that we are created in God's image, it means that we have all the wonderful characteristics of the divine, including love, compassion, intelligence, joy, etc.
This life gives us an opportunity to experience these things fully.
The meaning of life, its purpose, is to fully experience your divine nature, to find the love, joy, and truth within yourself and to know yourself as a spark of the divine fire.
2007-04-26 06:05:53 · answer #5 · answered by Angela Harms 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may not have seen it, because people became bored with it long ago. Why not just do something with your life, then you'll find out whether it has a meaning
2007-04-26 09:09:06 · answer #6 · answered by Canute 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Asking meaningless questions on Y! Answers.
2007-04-26 06:06:35 · answer #7 · answered by >>киσω-ιт-αℓℓ<< 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
this question is on here all the time. the meaning of life is to enjoy it. thats all. there is no set way for one person to enjoy life depends on what you enjoy. if you enjoy drugs go and do them, if you enjoy food go eat it, you enjoy sex go get it. just as long as your happy who cares
2007-04-26 09:59:40 · answer #8 · answered by Lethal-Lizzle 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the mean of life is not specific. i believe like a bar code everyone has their own random meaning of life! so it end up being one big meaning
2007-04-26 06:12:46 · answer #9 · answered by jamie m 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
why do so many people ask this and no one know the answer!?! the meaning of life IS TO LIVE AND LET LIVE. we're just doing a shite job because we're so hooked on things and troubles that we cant live AND we're killing the earth!
2007-04-26 06:08:40 · answer #10 · answered by april9rockstar 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋