2007-08-05 18:47:58 · 19 answers · asked by Ebayer 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
To give me ten points by voting me best answer.
2007-08-05 18:57:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 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.....
2007-08-06 01:59:57 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love
2007-08-06 02:10:24 · answer #3 · answered by newyorkafterdarkness 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love
2007-08-06 02:01:45 · answer #4 · answered by Nib 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive...
LOL
Someone said this once, but I dont remember who did...
be happy!!!!
that's the meaning of life, when you feel death close to you, you'll realize that...
2007-08-06 02:09:05 · answer #5 · answered by Abbey Road 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your life pleases some 1 in dis world n they love u very much open a Bible and u will fined anwers out
2007-08-06 02:17:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was a Christian, I used to think that we were put here to spread the words of god.
When I was a Satanist, I think we were here to make this world a better place.
Now I'm wiser, I've stopped thinking about it.
2007-08-06 01:53:53 · answer #7 · answered by floozy_niki 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Survive, reproduce/destroy, die. Repeat.
Tip: Make up an invisible, ubiquitous surveillance system in the sky to feel comforted.
2007-08-06 01:51:07 · answer #8 · answered by acrumble05 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To live for our real purpose gives real meaning. Our real purpose is to seek our Creator and thereby let Him find us. God reveals Himself through our love for our neighbors; where love is, there God is also.
2007-08-06 05:48:40 · answer #9 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What it means to you. That's what it means to have free will !
Now if you want to tithe 10% of your income, join an evangelical church.
2007-08-06 02:02:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋