2007-07-02 13:41:08 · 14 answers · asked by lauren 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
to enjoy music.
2007-07-02 13:44:15 · answer #1 · answered by Hgldr 5 · 1⤊ 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.....
2007-07-02 17:10:10 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On the superficial level life is misleading.
On the level of pure spirit all meaning comes on the level of ones own direct experience. And that kind of meaning cannot be expressed in words.
2007-07-02 13:51:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
" The meaning of life is the quest for reason and purpose and the fear of its own ending, and to perpetuate this quest though biology and Ideology." 2 b or not 2 b..............The 3 laws of life:1) Survive 2) propagate 3) diversify*
2007-07-02 13:53:36 · answer #4 · answered by xsesivelyso2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is a form of existence,
we are only microbes sitting on a cell
called planet earth
2007-07-02 15:22:35 · answer #5 · answered by ssphotoshop 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why does there have to be a meaning? The meaning of my life is to actually live, have fun, and write a book.
2007-07-02 13:45:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To make use of your gifts and then do something with them. That is the meaning of MY life. It is up to you to think of your own.
2007-07-02 13:49:56 · answer #7 · answered by The Helper 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the meaning ??its probably different from person to person but to me it would have to mean happiness i mean since youre born thats all you truly want to get to be .so maybe at the end of life the meaning (happiness) finally comes to you i mean thats what i think
2007-07-02 13:46:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The view is fantastic.
2007-07-02 13:45:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
For me, life is about achieving a goal with a happiness....
2007-07-02 17:10:02 · answer #10 · answered by farah_fauzi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe life has no meaning inless you give it one.you have to decide what meaning you want your life to have before it begins to have one.you could sit around all your life doing nothing and your life will have no meaning
2007-07-02 18:50:05 · answer #11 · answered by Beka14 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋