Do you think it will be found to be perplexingly complex or ridiculously simple? All encompassing or singularily personal?
2007-06-22 16:24:13 · 13 answers · asked by zingis 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It already has been found and it is very simple, I don't think the large/small analogy works because although it is simple when it comes to you it will change everything.
Geez, listen to me, talking about it as if I know this great answer. I don't per se but for some reason I feel I know it is simple. It feels to me like in order for it to be "the meaning of life" it would have to be sublimely simple. Can you imagine the meaning of life being some complex equation that most people couldn't understand? I don't think so. Have you noticed the living who seem to know the meaning? they're animals, and simple people in huts and plants even. So it must be simple, so simple w pass right over it in our struggle to find something we believe is hard to come by.
Okay here are my favorite "Meanings of Life"
1. The meaning of life is to give your life meaning.
2. The answer to the question what is the meaning of life is to stop asking the question and be at peace with not knowing.
3. Lifes meaning can only be found at its conclusion. until then you only know part of the meaning of life.
4. The meaning of life is to not require that it have meaning, when you don't ask anything of life you allow life to reveal its meaning to you.
5. Acceptance, And their is always a greater level of acceptance that can be achieved.
6. If we ask what is the meaning of life, first we have to ask who wants to know, why it is sought, what will you hope to do when it is found, why do you think you are worthy of knowing or capable of understanding. and who's life do you want to know the meaning of.
7. Take the letters in this paragraph and shuffle them until they spell out the meaning of life.
That's what I've got! Have fun!
2007-06-22 17:09:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love this question as it is reoccurring in every of life's moments.
If you're an existentialist, (which I am slowly, unwillingly succumbing to) even if there is a God, all is the same in the end, and hence, nothing matters. Neither do we.
What do I think? I'd LIKE to believe I have a meaning and that those passed are looking over me; I'd like to believe I have a destiny and a soul.
What I do believe for now is that I most likely do have a soul, that all energy in the universe is somehow ultimately connected, but that also, human beings are just a physical phase and an element with basic inborn instincts among zillions of other humanly not understood dimensions of thought and comprehension.
Love philosophy...
2007-06-22 16:33:07 · answer #2 · answered by London 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The smaller it is, the more massive the understanding and relevence to ourselves. Everything is always singularily personal, but, by being such, we expand to strive to encompass that which we hunger to understand for our own selves and at the same time justify our selfishness with our selflessness to others. The simplest things are the hardest to understand and even harder to explain, but the most rewarding if we can share it without bias.
This is appropriate I wrote:
Remember when we...
Were small,
And we had no worries...
At all?
Now that we’re a little...
Bit older,
And a little bit...
Bolder,
We can’t help...
But feel small.
2007-06-22 16:35:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is to make your life have meaning. This could be as simple as wiping a tear off a child's cheek or as complex as developing fusion power and universal free energy for all. For today's meaning of life I aim to have a shower and smell less; then later tonight become master of the universe followed by a kebab on the way home...
Now that you know what it is what will your meaning be?
2007-06-23 06:39:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeahhhh! now were talkin'!
Perhaps the answer is there is no answer and that's the scariest of them all.
I believe that life is both singular and all encompassing where we all think we experience life as a separate entity but we are all just a part of a whole state of being, all things and events happening concurrently yet infinitely.
2007-06-22 16:30:42 · answer #5 · answered by rich e rich 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Someone once told me that the universe can be understood both by looking at it macroscopically or microscopically. I would also venture that the meaning of life could be found in the same way. I believe that meaning is present in both.
2007-06-22 17:39:48 · answer #6 · answered by dasupr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both im sure. the meaning of life will be vast and cover all space and time. But since all of space and time dont matter to one small person. All they will need to understand is there own space and time
2007-06-22 16:39:02 · answer #7 · answered by Quid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is more of an opinion matter. Philosophy is mostly about opinion, isn't it? So the answer will definitely vary with everyone.
2007-06-22 16:44:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I find it to be pointlessly irrelevant or even hopelessly nonexistant.
2007-06-22 16:41:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how you approach it.
2007-06-22 21:12:32 · answer #10 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋