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2007-07-29 19:18:31 · 16 answers · asked by I love you too! 6 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

There are so many fantastic answers, I find it hard to choose one best.

2007-07-30 23:45:26 · update #1

16 answers

-both-

owes us and we owes wen we'r born

we owes and they owes when we here.

2007-07-29 19:22:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

Nice question. I would go with the former. Most people never admit that life itself should present something to us. They are afraid that if they ask of life, life will not answer, and remain silent. So what do they do? They make life into something arbitrary. They choose their careers and goals and plans and paint on life as if it's a thoughtless blank canvas. The result? They never know if their lives were meaningful in any way outside of their own arbitrary, self-created constructs.

If we actually stop to ask of Life, what it "owes us," it will not only provide for us, it will unveil the fact that Truth actually comes as a Father.

2007-07-29 20:09:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Life doesn't owe you anything, it's already given what it's going to give to you. It may not be exactly what you would wish for but it is more than some people have.

I would say you owe it to life to make the most out of it, but you also owe it to yourself.

2007-07-29 19:48:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Why does anyone owe anything? We're born to this world and we die. How we choose to live that life is the real question.

I think people who believe the world owes them are extremely spoilt/selfish, and people who believe they owe the world... well they're either very self-sacrificing and become saints or their parents really messed with their heads.

2007-07-29 19:28:25 · answer #4 · answered by Lee 4 · 1 0

Life owes us nothing. But we owe it to ourselves to use life as fully as we can, externally and internally. That is the examined life. It doesn't require scripts. But we make our own. That defines the meaning of our life (what we spend it on), and the purpose (what we aim for). If that is a search for wisdom, we ensure that we will enrich our lives, and the lives around us, as much as possible. Apart from owing that to ourselves, we also owe it to all those who have lived life as best they could, through good times and bad, and in so doing brought life eventually to us. In that way we honor our own lives, too. Similarly we owe to the lives after us, to pass on life as undiminished as possible (though not in ever growing numbers!). We are embedded in our species, and all life, and the Earth that supports us all. All we owe to all of that is recognition, and care.

2007-07-29 19:31:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Whoa, that's deep and lovely. A little of both really:
We owe to life; to be as supportive of the Universe as we can be, because it's all just a recycling of what growth was and is.

Life owes to us: the experiences of knowledge and growth,
and the woes of trial and error and ultimately ~satisfaction~

2007-07-29 19:32:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

A good novel question... thank you!!
In my view, life owes us experience and we owe to learn from those experiences and accordingly to shape up or remodel life. It is an interdependent process.... if life does not give us rich experience, we can not make life better.... if we do not learn from the experience given by life, we can not reshape or remodel life and it can not then in turn provide more meaningful experience.

2007-07-29 19:40:14 · answer #7 · answered by small 7 · 1 0

Personally, I don't like to think in terms of "owes." I certainly don't believe that "life" could possibly owe us anything. As if life were a separate thinking entity that decides it's indebted to us. True? What we give in life, to ourselves, others, the contributions we make to nature & our planet--that's quite different. I don't think of that as "owing." Bottom line, we ARE life.

2007-07-30 14:50:30 · answer #8 · answered by Valac Gypsy 6 · 1 0

first of all hitler did get away with all of his atrocities. he never stood trial. if a person does good only to receive a reward, then what good have they done. each person must find their own meaning in life. the only person who owes me anything is myself. people do not wish to face reality because life is hard. it is easier to blame everything on a single evil being then to admit that we are responsible for all of mans ills. and how can a single evil exist without a single good.

2016-05-17 09:36:55 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

Well you can whine about being owed, but I don't see anyone who can make life pay up.

And once your dead, I can't see how life could collect.

2007-07-29 20:08:01 · answer #10 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 0 0

I think it's both too, initially we were put on earth I think to enjoy it with God, too bad the fall of mankind took away harmony.
What we have to give back, is to preach the gospel to every living creature. (Mark 16:15)

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2007-07-29 19:33:22 · answer #11 · answered by gabuyt 2 · 0 0

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