I’m beginning to believe that life is meaningless. I’m not talking about hopelessness, as in depression, but a Nihilism-like definition of meaningless. And I’m feeling like dying, because I, we, have no purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value.
Example: Why put in the effort in finding a wife or true love, or whatever word you wanna use, when other people already had her, and probably got her easier and faster thin me. And I’ll think I found someone special because she played hared to get with me.
And I just wanna let go of life: suicide.
Do you think I have a problem, or do you think I’m way too intellectual?
And please don’t your decisions based on my examples, just the first part.
2007-08-04 07:07:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What's the meaning of life...
2007-08-04 07:11:31 · update #1
yes you do have purpose! i know what you mean...i understand that its not hopelessnes or depression but you just think whats the point...but there is one! pray about it! we all have a purpose here.
the devil is confusing you!
i always wanted to to get married and have a family but not everyone is called to do that and i dont think thats what the Lord has planned for me...but if not then i know theres something better he has planned eventhough i couldnt imagine anything better :)
please believe and trust in the Lord! life does have meaning! YOUR life has meaning! if not then it wouldnt be God's will for you to exist...
2007-08-04 07:22:40 · answer #1 · answered by holly B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think you are talking about real meaning and not just some feelings of meaning.
Real meaning comes from living for a real purpose and real purpose can only come from a Creator/God. This quote is from the famous atheist, Bertram Russell:
“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell
Honest intellectual thought will always take the atheist to nihilism. This is why Camus (another famous philosopher) said, "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide".
If we insist on rejecting God, then we need to give up honesty and look to illusion. We can create the illusion of meaning and several answerers have indicated some techniques. For example, "It is the purpose you give to yourself!". This invites you to do something like volunteer in a homeless shelter, then give yourself praise and imagine the praise of others. This will make you feel good and then you can imagine that working in a homeless shelter is the reason why you were put on earth. It uses the good feeling of self esteem to create the illusion of purpose.
But I'd rather seek God and real purpose and meaning even though I'm not sure God even exists.
2007-08-04 23:33:24 · answer #2 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I personally have found joy from striving to get a better understanding of myself as a human being. I have mental, emotional, behavioural, physical and spiritual dimensions to myself and the more Ive come to understand them the happier I seem to become. This is one of the benefits to becoming self aware. Try stepping out of the Nihilism box and consider other perspectives for a while. Personally I believe in the idea of evolution and believe that I am an active participant in my own evolution and therefore an active participant in evolution as a whole. That idea gives meaning to my life.
2007-08-04 07:31:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is meaningful if we know our duty before God.
Acts 20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
2007-08-04 07:15:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
"For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment. Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest."
Ecclesiastes 9:4-10
2007-08-04 07:36:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Life has no "meaning", but you can still enjoy the simple pleasures of life like drinking booze, smoking weed and eating good food, until you die...but please don't commit suicide because that will bum out your parents and friends who will blame themselves for not "helping" you more...if they in fact give a hoot.
2007-08-04 07:14:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a purpose. It may not be a divinely inspired one, but there is purpose. It is the purpose you give to yourself!
What do you want to see? What do you want to experience? What do you want to accomplish? These are questions to which only you have the answers.
2007-08-04 07:13:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Life's meaning is real simple. We are either going to heaven or hell when we die.
2007-08-04 07:12:48 · answer #8 · answered by dog_skyhigh 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋