2007-08-12 14:04:55 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Avoiding questions like this one.
2007-08-12 14:12:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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.....
2007-08-13 01:01:18 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The more important question is why does our human nature demand that we have a purpose? It is either something our Creator put into our human nature or, if God doesn't exist, then it is something evolution put there.
If mindless, purposeless evolution put it there, there is no meaning of life for natural processes cannot grant purpose. Does a rock on Mars have a purpose? No, and neither do we if we are solely here through evolution.
But if there is a Creator, then He must have put our need for meaning into our human nature in order to point us to seek Him. Through our knowing and experiencing Him, all other things can have real meaning.
2007-08-13 06:41:56 · answer #3 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To ask what the meaning of life is.
2007-08-12 21:51:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
First of all I agree with the guy who said its not to be found on Y! Answers. Second, what is YOUR answer? Or are you just trying to start a philosophical debate when you have nothing original to offer? Boring.
2007-08-12 21:16:57 · answer #5 · answered by tifenie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
nobody really seems to look.... i mean there are girls like the second poster who are in a trance and just go through life w/o really thinking about it. then again, i've thought about it until my head hurts and only a little farther than when i started...
2007-08-12 21:10:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
the meaning of life lies in the small forgotten good things that we do for others and the things that we teach ourselves as we live through it
2007-08-13 04:22:36 · answer #7 · answered by koool 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Life exists to bridge the expanse between birth and death.
2007-08-13 10:04:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Life is precious to get. If you want to be one among Gabriel Live like Jesus.
2007-08-12 21:39:11 · answer #9 · answered by Muthu S 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Not to be found on Y! Answers, that's for darn sure. The wise one has spoken. Please return to the bottom of the mountain and take a new number.
2007-08-12 21:11:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋