...insurance?
2007-09-02 14:46:43 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
to profit on death.
2007-09-02 14:53:04 · answer #1 · answered by whtshdw 2 · 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.....
2007-09-02 22:58:44 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh you tricky Mr. Patrick G!
Life insurance is so you can pay the insurance company lots of money, then when you lose your job or for some other reason can't keep making payments, they cancel your account and keep all the money.
2007-09-02 21:54:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
LOL, what's the meaning of life insurance? Good one!
2007-09-02 21:51:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away know when to run. You don't count your money when your sittin' at the table there'll be time enough for countin when the dealin's done.
2007-09-02 22:41:19 · answer #5 · answered by stowaway 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol, aparantly that guy ^ didnt get the joke...
2007-09-03 06:20:04 · answer #6 · answered by Flan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to make it meaningful!
2007-09-02 21:55:53 · answer #7 · answered by Aura 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋