Do you know the answer. I do. It's simple. If anyone can tell me, you'll gain a little respect from "Fluffy"
2007-08-01 18:16:53 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
To find happiness within oneself- & gratefull enough to spead that happiness around..
2007-08-01 18:25:42 · answer #1 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 0⤊ 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.....
2007-08-02 02:43:09 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what your definition of the meaning of life is, but I know my definition. It is simply to live it. I had a dream one night where I met my guardian angel (spirit guide). I asked him if he could tell me the meaning of life, why are we here. He nodded and ... I woke up from the alarm clock. At first I thought what a twisted thing to do. Then a friend reminded me that he did answer my question. I needed to wake up and live it.
2007-08-02 01:55:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well Fluffy, its quite simple really.
2007-08-02 01:50:51 · answer #4 · answered by Mayonaise 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no meaning, and about 5 more of these are right under you in the philosophy section, along with thousands from the past.
2007-08-02 01:23:45 · answer #5 · answered by shmux 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is knowledge it gets you everywhere i mean you have the knowledge to overcome obstacles and you have the knowledge to know whats good and not but some people use it less and that's why they make stupid choices in life
2007-08-02 01:20:29 · answer #6 · answered by Sam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only YOU know the meaning of your life.
2007-08-02 01:20:17 · answer #7 · answered by Yam King 7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer, of course, is 42.
2007-08-02 01:29:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is beautiful :)
2007-08-02 01:27:57 · answer #9 · answered by ~ ANGEL ~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmmmmmmm! to be able to breath!
2007-08-02 02:10:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋