2007-05-25 10:03:30 · 7 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.....
2007-05-26 04:56:11 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A cold glass of coca cola, a hamburger pizza, the Astros on TV and the dog at my feet. That is the meaning of life. Sorry, I am not that deep anymore.
2007-05-25 17:10:54 · answer #2 · answered by Oldvet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is faulty because it posits a supreme being or consciousness that has "created" the possibility of a meaning for you. There's no reason to presume such a thing. These are the sorts of questions Richard Dawkins is always deriding.
2007-05-25 18:29:23 · answer #3 · answered by Shinigami 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-05-25 18:36:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
To live to die. Wake up day after day doing almost the same thing. Either to go to work, school or possibly do nothing all day then go to sleep and repeat it. Maybe do something diffrent that day but you get what I'm say? Live is just going in circles only you age is whats diffrent.
2007-05-25 17:58:16 · answer #5 · answered by SorrySara 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life just is. It has no intrinsic, or built in meaning of it's own.
All the meaning that life will ever have is the meaning that you give to it.
Looks like its up to you.
Love and blessings Don
2007-05-26 08:20:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That nature is capable of producing such items.
2007-05-25 17:06:50 · answer #7 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋