some1 plz enlighten me!!!
2007-10-01 11:06:49 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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2007-10-01 11:10:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
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.....
2007-10-01 12:45:23 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why ask? No one has ever actually found a true answer. Ever.
If we did, our brains would be liquid.
The mind can form a personal reality, and if you believe in something enough, it becomes "real" to you. Others will think you are nuts, but it is still your mind and opinion. The meaning of life is how you define, which is mostly based on how you define success. That's my view on it.
What do I think the meaning of life is?
The fact I'm living it. Not dying. I like life. Life means I get to do things. I don't know what happens in death because I, along with many other people, fear the unknown.
2007-10-01 11:16:17 · answer #3 · answered by Sage G 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative is so uncomplicated. It can be expressed in single words, not complete sentences.
It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
The meaning of your life will be decided by you when you have completed your Journey though life. The meaning for all life...is simply to survive as long as possible...
2007-10-01 11:21:30 · answer #4 · answered by deucesteve 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See: Man's Search for Meaning, by Victor E. Frankl.
It's a brief but excellent book which I think you will find entertaining, fascinating and enlightening. Any library will have it, guaranteed. (It was, in its time, an international bestseller.)
In short, though, it is precisely what you want it to be. Everyone's life has a different meaning, and once you find what your life's meaning is, you will be a happier person for it. I hope you do!
2007-10-01 11:19:46 · answer #5 · answered by 53428950234 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Meaning and worth and purpose are all connected. Meaning and worth, I think, are basically the same thing.
Our lives are worth living when we live for a real purpose. Real purpose requires God:
“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell (Nobel Laureate)
If we reject God, we also reject purpose and our lives are meaningless and worthless. We can't tolerate the thought of our lives being worthless so we invent our own method for determining our worth. We pretend that if people praise us for some good deed, then we must have worth. So praise becomes our pretend purpose. "I want to leave the world a better place" is a phrase that gains us imagined praise and therefore imagined worth. Under our invented system of worth, we always have to do something to earn our worth.
When we were children, we found our worth through the love of our parents. We didn't have to earn it. Christians believe that we have worth simply because we are children of God.
2007-10-01 23:37:13 · answer #6 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if science is right, then we are no more than matter on this earth in this universe and we are no more relevant than the bacteria on the chopping board. If Religion is right, then we are here to live our lives as God wanted us to (therefore no free will so to speak).
Therefore, the meaning of life is something man made and it is therefore whatever the person who seeks it to be.
2007-10-01 11:14:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whatever the individual decides it to be.
There is no absolute meaning to life.
2007-10-01 11:10:26 · answer #8 · answered by Clint 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To make it short: to make yourself the best person you can be.
2007-10-01 11:15:09 · answer #9 · answered by len b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
three things are the meaning of life FOOD DRINK and SEX thats all there is to life babe
2007-10-01 11:14:02 · answer #10 · answered by Mollie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋