2007-05-31 13:09:07 · 10 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.....
2007-06-01 07:59:49 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-05-31 20:17:48 · answer #2 · answered by cornflake#1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The meaning of life is to go forward to learn and explore new things from generation to genertation you can see how far we have gone man on the moon what's coming on the next fifthy years more discoveries will be made.I think that's what life is about
2007-05-31 20:24:07 · answer #3 · answered by maryann 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
meaning of life? thats for you to find out as you live your life each and everyday. learning to live, live to learn, learn to love, and maybe find the meaning of life in love. its a journey you're taking,and maybe not soon, but youll answer your own question. as will the rest of the world. [;
2007-05-31 21:44:30 · answer #4 · answered by Riley 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
life's is all about asking questions, not about knowing answers. it's wanting to see what's over the hill that keeps us all going, we have to keep asking questions, wanting to understand, even when we know we'll never find the answers, we have to keep on asking the questions :)
i answer that before just post :D
2007-05-31 21:01:08 · answer #5 · answered by cheesecake 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The meaning of life is to understand life. You will begin to live life whene you undertand it. And you will understand life whene you live it.
2007-05-31 20:12:49 · answer #6 · answered by Mr.comp 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Part of it is learning how to spell.
2007-05-31 20:17:21 · answer #7 · answered by Jim J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to bring God glory. he made us for relationship, for love and to bring him glory. and that's not him being conceited. he's so loving, so merciful, so self-less that he deserves it. it's mind blowing. get to know him and you won't be asking that question anymore....i promise =)
2007-05-31 21:44:07 · answer #8 · answered by Achilles 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is none. Stop asking.
2007-05-31 20:13:45 · answer #9 · answered by shmux 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
consider the options.
2007-05-31 20:11:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋