2007-09-12 03:17:09 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
to live
2007-09-12 03:22:16 · answer #1 · answered by Jared 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.....
2007-09-13 06:38:28 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life cannot have a meaning it just is.
About 4 billion years ago life evolved from a coming together of a chemical soup and although we cannot yet duplicate that process I am sure, within the next 50 years, we will crack it.
The definition of life is:-
That which is capable of reproducing itself.
2007-09-12 10:29:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
life is a cricket match always think to win, life is a god gifted thing that we are suffer in the earth , we are not living the independent life we always think about life, life is given by the grace of god so let him think and the god will help you
2007-09-12 10:29:28 · answer #4 · answered by 007 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
VERY original question... but
The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42
2007-09-12 10:41:35 · answer #5 · answered by kitty 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really do think being alive is just a waste of time. Who created life? Where did it begin?
2007-09-12 10:25:26 · answer #6 · answered by AB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are the 4th person to ask this question in the past 24hrs!!!
Please reffer to Richard Dawkins!
2007-09-12 10:27:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea. Sometimes it seems pointless and other times very rewarding. I suppose we are here to help each other, though that can be difficult if you don't like someone.
2007-09-12 10:30:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a film by Monty Python.
2007-09-13 03:32:16 · answer #9 · answered by soppy.bollocks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To live ,to love .To have a family and to have children.
2007-09-12 11:39:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋