2007-09-04 09:15:05 · 18 answers · asked by ? 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Everyone finds their own meaning of life.
Some people find meaning in religion, others in their chosen careers, others just never seem to find anything and wander about asking what it is.
The meaning of our life is personal. Just look around at what you can do and contribute and you'll find so many ways your life is full and meaningful.
2007-09-05 04:14:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You mean life in general, including plants and bacteria, etc, or life as in the conscious existence of a human being? If it's the latter...
It can be said that no time in human history was their homogeneous goals of people reletave to mankind as a whole; we've always had some broken warring fragments even from people within any group. Thus your question is probably better pointed at the individual than the world as a whole. Therefore the answer depends entirely on personal philosophy of what is acceptable and unacceptable interactive behavior of human beings.
Some people feel any way they "get over" on another is fair play, while others feel their should be a win, win or no-deal interaction. Thus some aim their life by self-centered behaviors, while others are social-centered.
My personal aim is to at any given moment be making anything I get involved with better and never making anything worse, thus leaving the world a better place before I die.
Furthermore I don't believe life in the abstract has been aimed. Any organized religion will tell you what the aim is, but they have a lot of hand waving to get you to not see how the whole thing falls apart on close scrutiny. Not everything has a reason, contrary to some peoples strong beliefs, and I don't think life had a reason, thus implying no aim.
2007-09-04 09:46:38 · answer #2 · answered by wnymathguy 2 · 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.....
2007-09-04 18:25:22 · answer #3 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The aim of life is survival without suffering. Only by this can an organism reproduce well enough to continue. If suffering is a part of life, the bulk of the time and energy available is spent in trying to alleviate the suffering leaving very little for reproduction.
Look at any garden and see the difference in plants in clear soil and those that have to compete with weeds for a living example of this. Weed-bound plants are less developed and weaker in general unless they can develop a way to combat the effect of competition for space and nutrients.
2007-09-04 21:45:27 · answer #4 · answered by John R 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For people like you to keep asking this very SAME question... the same one someone else asked a day or so ago... and no doubt someone else will ask again in two days time.....
The aim is to work out what the aim is! And if I tell you what it is, I am afraid that I would have to then kill you!
2007-09-04 09:51:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The aim of life is simply to ensure that life continues after individual entities die.
Did you mean to ask about the purpose of life? That's a more mystical question entirely.
2007-09-04 10:55:30 · answer #6 · answered by Cliffe-climber 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To survive and multiply, to mutate and grow. Life is the only force in the universe that is increasing entropy or creating order, so it struggles unceasingly against the universal and increasing disorder of the universe.
My personal aim is to achieve the most in the time I have, what the most actually is depends on my current vision.
2007-09-04 10:21:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
An aim would mean an end. No end so no aim.
2007-09-04 21:56:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The AIM of life is to be rich, famous and to rule the world...
The REALITY of life is to work your butt off and scrape by.
g-day!
2007-09-04 12:35:38 · answer #9 · answered by Kekionga 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well to animals it is to survive and reproduce, to keep their species alive.
But we humans are far more sentimental than animals, and I think for us, the aim of life is to be happy and to be with those who you love.
2007-09-04 23:31:02 · answer #10 · answered by *Kate* 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋