what is the point of everything in life?
everything is programmed-
going to school
job
time to go to bed.
a paper is do.
everything.
at the end of your life when you have all this money and are retired from your career, what was the point of it all?
just to earn money?
but whats the happeniess in that.
i know this question is really like crazy and probably hard to understand.
but i tried my best.
2007-09-13 07:45:57 · 6 answers · asked by natalya k 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Sounds like someone's being emo.
2007-09-13 07:52:59 · answer #1 · answered by LOVE is SHABONDAMA 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You've asked a big question! Does life have meaning or doesn't it? Do we as individuals have value or as one of the billions and billions of people who have lived before us and are completely forgotten, are we no more than just a very minor footnote in history? If everything is "programmed" do we really have any freedom?
Of course, there is no single answer. The fact is that for the vast majority of us, outside of the small circle of family and friends, we will have no major impact in the world and when we die it won't be long before it seems like no one even remembers that we existed. This can be a tough pill to swallow.
When we ask what meaning life has I believe that we inevitably reach the conclusion that the only meaning our life has is what we give it. So often we focus on what our legacy will be without realizing that life is meant to be lived in the here and now. We cannot alter what happened in the past and there is very little that we can do to shape the future.
My feeling is that it is good to ask questions about what meaning and value our life has. However, after a while it becomes an exercise in mental gymnastics and we come to realize that in fact there are no concrete answers.
It is my experience that the natural course of this line of thinking turns from "Who am I?" and "Why am I here?" to "What am I doing to make life better for those around me?" and "How can I instill those values and morals that I believe to be important to the next generation so that they live on?"
I would like to suggest, if you have the time, spending some time reading a philosopher named Kierkegaard. He was a Danish philosopher from the 18th century and is considered the father of Existentialism, a school of thought that asks the very questions that you are now.
You might not get the exact answers that you are looking for, but it might help to know that people have been asking these questions for a long time and what conclusions they came to.
2007-09-13 15:19:04 · answer #2 · answered by Stephen C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not even about asking the question "what's the point of life" ... Because there really isn't any point to be made. if you live for you... and 90 years from now you die.. if you are given a chance to look back and say you did everything you wanted to do, you projected yourself to the best of your abilities, and you learned from most of the mistakes you made a long the way... then you did the best you could.. We only have a limited amount of time here, instead of questioning why you have it, do things that enhance it.... and if doing homework and going to sleep early is not part of what you feel life should be about... then do something else. The options are endless.
2007-09-13 15:22:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A few thoughts on this matter…
Chasseing those good feelings, that’s what it all boils down to, now how to release them is the next question and what you’re asking?
“to save the children, and we’re all very serious about that. Because we’re expecting the children to save us all”... is another way to look at it.
Also herd that human kind is on an epic journey to classify quantify and other wise define our environment. This could take awhile. Many, many life times if it can ever really be done. So while we figure it out we should use that knowledge to make life more comfortable.
2007-09-13 15:10:58 · answer #4 · answered by grey_worms 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. That's not a crazy question. It's a smart one. Your average dumb person won't think about stuff like that in a million years. Most people are no different than animals when it comes to living their lives. They have no clue why they do what they do. They just follow. A smart person thinks and ponders. He/she sees beyond the surface.
I always think about this stupid life, the purpose of it. We're born, become adults, go to school, get jobs, get married, again have kids like the idiots before us, get old and die, and burried in the ground like we never even were on this damn planet, so it's like all in vain. We're nothing but dumb robots that are programmed to do something without thinking about it. Pretty dumb to me... That's why I don't want to have any kids.
I do believe however that there is a next life and that is what counts and not this stupid meaningless life.
2007-09-13 15:10:06 · answer #5 · answered by Mr_realist 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its not life its society that is programmed. we live in a fu cked up world that is a continual thing over and over. add me to messanger paintball9902 easyer to talk about it over that if u like
2007-09-13 15:09:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋