2007-09-13 08:57:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
to live.
2007-09-13 09:06:45 · 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.....
2007-09-13 16:22:25 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life has no point. Human beings happen to have very large highly developed brains. These brains are so good at processing information that they invent ideas like "point" in order to better organize and construct new information. Many things have a point and a point is useful with many things. The problem comes when people think that therefore everything must have a point. It does not. Life is one of those things. If you cannot live without a "point" to life, then invent one and call it your own. However, life has no intrinsic "point" that is, it has no point other than one you chose to give it.
2007-09-13 16:04:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A point is something created by a mind, as are meaning and purpose. Thus, it is impossible for life itself to have a point, meaning, or purpose.
Our instincts inspire us to do what will most likely make us and our species survive, and most likely lead to our successful reproduction. This is gained through evolution, because that which does not survive and reproduce stops existing and all that is left to exist is that which successfully survives and reproduces.
We each have to find our own way, and try to achieve what makes us happy.
2007-09-13 16:45:01 · answer #4 · answered by knowalotlearnalot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my life the point is the point, and infinity as well. So it covers from point to infinity.
I noticed your nickname, so in religious terms... the "Great I AM" is both infinity and the point. It's the eternal life Jesus was speaking about.
2007-09-13 16:55:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is not a point of life.
2007-09-13 16:43:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think that there is no exact point i think life is because something got mixed up with other something and boom after sumo millions of years after, humans were created
2007-09-13 16:02:40 · answer #7 · answered by originalquene 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋