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my friend is always dull and he always says that is the maening of life and i really want to tell him what it is

2007-10-06 10:56:43 · 21 answers · asked by DRAGON STAR 1 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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The meaning of life is to to find purpose and justification in life, without ever knowing the final answer. You be the best you can with what you have, and always realize that there is only so much you can 'know' (be sure of) at any given time.

Don't get hung up on the final answer. You don't get that until after life is over (if ever!)

Lindsay... what was the question?

2007-10-06 11:06:35 · answer #1 · answered by eine kleine nukedmusik 6 · 1 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.....

2007-10-06 17:57:03 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0 0

4*3=7

2007-10-06 11:21:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

life is what you make it- how you percieve it .... in the constraints of the settings you live in.

This is really relevant to your friend because the way he percieves life is the way he makes it and lives it and is the way he makes himself: dull. In reality his life is probably not inexscapably dull, his perceptions are, unless he doesnt have the resources or lives in a particularily dull area, period of history he could proabably change that. I have a hunch that its your friends personal problem rather than philosophical

2007-10-06 11:11:13 · answer #4 · answered by Aidan 5 · 0 0

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2007-10-06 11:03:47 · answer #5 · answered by Lindsey Ann 3 · 1 0

To respond to this question everytime it is asked on Yahoo Answers which is now about the 29th time since I've been a member.

2007-10-06 11:04:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

the meaning of life is to suffer and die.
there is no meaning outside of that.
yeah you added my old profile another chance, they just sent me an email like 7 minutes ago.
actually allot of people say that the physical meaning of life is to reproduce, but for what?
so there may be another spiritual meaning, well i dont know and since I'm suffering, that's my meaning of life.

2007-10-06 11:20:40 · answer #7 · answered by Dead account 2 · 1 0

Life is the meaning of life.

2007-10-06 16:52:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Each person has to find out the meaning of there lives for themselves, try convincing your friend to go out and try to find out the mining of his life.

2007-10-06 12:28:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

To find the purpose of life by our own efforts - not to listen to others' theories nor speeches nor read all the written 'bull-s*it'.

2007-10-06 11:54:38 · answer #10 · answered by mahen 4 · 0 0

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