why wondering what the meaning of life is,just live your life and die ,right?why should we care for meaning?
2007-07-26 22:51:26 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
then what are you living for? you have to have a meaning....
2007-07-26 23:14:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hi, Johnny!
Since you're in the Philosophy section, your answer will come from that perspective.
Logically speaking, your questions are incoherent. You ask, "Does life need to have meaning?" You obviously intend that question to have meaning else you would not have asked it. If your question has no meaning, then you've in effect said nothing; and if you've said nothing, then there's no point asking the question in the first place.
*Meaning* like *existence* is one of those concepts we cannot rationally deny because we affirm the same in the act of denial. "Meaning" is something we must assume in order to "just live [our] life and die..." because we must define what *LIFE* is in order to assert anything intelligible about it.
If I ask you what LIFE is, what would you say? You would have to attach some sort of MEANING to that word in order to give a rational answer.
As C.S. Lewis pointed out, if life has no meaning, you would never know it. If humans never had eyes, we would not understand the concept of *darkness*. The word 'dark' would be without meaning.
Best wishes,
Scalia
2007-07-27 15:34:40 · answer #2 · answered by ScaliaAlito 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our human nature requires our lives to mean something. Alone in a vast universe living a pointless existence is not something we can truly face. We need some reason to live beyond just taking our next breath. If someone were to say, "I have no reason to live", wouldn't you immediately think that person capable of suicide?
What good is breathing and eating and sleeping and dying if it all means nothing?
2007-07-27 06:00:05 · answer #3 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Without meaning, there is no purpose. Everything for purpose. There is nothing made, even in the fabric of life that has no purpose.
Imagine, if there were no weed, what beauty would exist among the plants!
Imagine if there were no water, would we not be dust?
If there were no sun, how dark it would be?
Even the fly, whose purpose is to remove decay. The bee, who pollinates the trees so that there is abundant fruit.
Everything for purpose. Even to bring attention, or to stir the emotions. There is purpose. otherwise, there is no meaning.
Your sister,
Ginger
2007-07-27 06:02:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, it doesn't. Humans, having been endowed with consciousness, feel the need to create meaning where it doesn't exist. Meaning and meaninglessness are categories that don't occur naturally -in other words, people want to validate the existence of everything in the universe, especially themselves. It is nothing more than simple egotism.
2007-07-27 06:17:28 · answer #5 · answered by St. Nagelkopf 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
meaning/religion gives motivation to most people and reason helps life for the most part. but trying to find the reason and truth is not like 1+1 . i like this quote: Greg Anderson: Quotes on The Meaning of Life
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing -- then we truly live life.
2007-07-27 06:05:25 · answer #6 · answered by trpathway 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Life is need to have meaning it is naturally, of course. Because without meaning life get useless and boring.
2007-07-27 06:05:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because without meaning, we might as well have not lived at all. Our lives have meaning whether we find it out or not.
2007-07-27 06:25:37 · answer #8 · answered by theboman@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is your path; your past, your present and your future.Where you are and where you want to be in the next moment.
Life has meaning Inevitably.
2007-07-27 06:07:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah your so right..
we shouldnt care about any thing
just live life!
like just get over fights and such.
cos life is meaniless
2007-07-27 06:00:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What do you understand by the word "meaning"? Inasmuch as existence is intelligible it has meaning. Whether that meaning is personally significant or emotionally gratifying is another issue all together.
2007-07-27 08:22:49 · answer #11 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋