and more specifically the meanning of it ? why are we there for ? and why is the why of humanity?
2007-05-23 09:11:12 · 12 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.....
2007-05-23 18:26:58 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For most people its a quest to attain happiness and or contentment. For those who say the purpose is to reproduce, does that mean once you have done so your life has no more meaning.
2007-05-23 16:30:44 · answer #2 · answered by Paul R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose or meaning or the why of humanity is a justification....a rationalization. You start with an assumed premise and with an honesty of that assumed premise your deduce your conclusion for purpose, meaning, or the why of it all, but this all requires an honesty of the assumed belief. It requires honor to be honest. Any meaning, purpose, reason, or justification of life requires Honesty. Thus, the meaning, purpose, reason, or justification for life is to be honorable.
2007-05-23 16:16:56 · answer #3 · answered by ULTIMATEMEANING 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
the purpose of life is to make children
2007-05-23 23:36:21 · answer #4 · answered by Jasmine 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think the purpose of life is to love other people instead of hurting them like many others do.
2007-05-23 17:45:15 · answer #5 · answered by new east 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is God playing hide-and-seek with Itself. We are the means by which God, or Life, experiences Itself in all of Its Infinite Glory.
2007-05-23 16:39:14 · answer #6 · answered by Todd W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are here to fufill God's will, whatever it may be for ourselves personally. He created us and we are to live for him. That may sound boring or selfish (of God), but He is infinitely wise and kind, and He knows far better than us what we are here for and how we will be happy.
2007-05-23 17:39:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ask the same question over and over again and lose points.
2007-05-23 16:27:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm trying to figure that out, but I think that we are here to "figure out why we are here". Maybe God wants us to think. He wants us to understand what real joy in life is and to follow it.
2007-05-23 16:19:31 · answer #9 · answered by Maya A 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
to reproduce and muyiply our numbers. We are animals.
2007-05-23 16:19:42 · answer #10 · answered by melissaw77 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋