2007-07-08 10:16:37 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It's a secret.
2007-07-08 10:20:29 · answer #1 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 11⤊ 1⤋
What is a point to start with? Doesn't it mean "Meaning"? And too, does the human race truly exist? Are we that much different than Primates?
Monkeys exist to make more monkeys. Also known as "traditional family values". Are we born with a meaning? Or do we have to decide on one, our own or some group's? Perhaps the point of primate existence is to evolve into human existence. I will say this. To question ones own meaning, or point, is more than any monkey can do. Maybe the point is to think about a point?
2007-07-08 18:00:19 · answer #2 · answered by phil8656 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It begs the question to assume that human existance has a point without proving it in the first place.
I never thought human existance had any sort of point or reason.
2007-07-08 17:20:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To help make each other happy. When you die, you don't get to take anything material you have acquired with you, so all that is left is the meaning you have taken from your life. If money was your meaning, then you will die a very poor person. If your meaning was found in releasing the suffering of others, and bringing happiness, and you have done it earnestly, you will die very wealthy, with the positive effects of your acts still effecting people (cause-effect-cause-effect...).
It is only what exists between people that matters. It is not you, and it is not me, it is the continued process that is "us". That is why selfish people are so afraid to die, everything they have worked for their whole life dies with them, all that money, all that planning, everything for naught. Selfless people die happy because the meaning they have worked towards and found will continue long after their passing.
2007-07-08 17:28:14 · answer #4 · answered by neuralzen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see this question a lot on YA! And this time you got a lot of answers. But I'll tell you what I think anyway.
Life is like one of those games where the object of the game is to find the object of the game. You have free will and so it's up to you to determine the meaning of your own life. Think of it as a great privilege because every other form of life that we know of it doesn't even think about the meaning of life, because they don't have free will.
If you pick a goal and work towards it, then your life has meaning. And you got to choose it yourself! Isn't that great?
2007-07-08 17:27:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At times it does seem pretty pointless. We're born, we grow up, and then we die. We can't take any of the things we've worked our whole lives for with us. We can't take any of the people with whom we formed relationships with.
I think, to a certain extent, there is a big point to life that most of us have yet to figure out. Until we do, we keep living it over and over.
2007-07-08 17:20:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So we can help the next generation to help the next generation, to help the next generation, and so on. If you ask me, there is no point because we aren't really advancing anywhere. But then other times I figure this is like a test to see who makes it into heaven, and who doesn't, based on how we acted on earth.
2007-07-08 17:20:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You create your own point to your own existence
2007-07-08 17:19:39 · answer #8 · answered by Randolph 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
To eat the chickens who were taking over the world.
2007-07-08 17:19:16 · answer #9 · answered by Pommy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why does it have to have a point?
2007-07-08 20:22:23 · answer #10 · answered by naniannie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to determine if we belong in the greater universal order of things or if we need to start over AGAIN!
2007-07-08 17:19:19 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋