I have a rough idea...
2007-10-08 11:21:53 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
/me pulls idiot face
MAYBE I HAVE READ HITCHHIKERS BACKWARDS?!?!?
MAYBE THATS WHY I ASKED THE QUESTION?!?!?!
2007-10-08 11:28:14 · update #1
Ooooo, the google calculator knows the answer! i'll send you the link lol
2007-10-08 11:24:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 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.....
2007-10-08 12:46:54 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As mere humans, we can't possibly know that much about the universe in our cramped little world. So, for now, just stick with 42/24 until some smarter being answers your question.
2007-10-08 11:50:40 · answer #3 · answered by Kim K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
life - to live
living - to live life in the progressive tense
universe - a big foreverness that is forever
everything - all things neither the universe nor life.
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hitchhiker's answer backwords. i guess would be 24... lol XD
2007-10-08 11:29:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you begin typing your question, other similar questions pop up under yours. Read them, read the answers, and don't ask the same question asked 150 times in the last 2 weeks.
2007-10-08 12:49:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
42...and this question gets asked over and over and over on Y!A.
Go read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
2007-10-08 11:25:29 · answer #6 · answered by backwardsinheels 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's a numbers test- you have to get as much money as possible before the end, and if you get on the leaderboard, you get to have coke and porn parties with the almighty.
2007-10-08 14:02:23 · answer #7 · answered by miserable old git 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the meaning is that no one knows
and that people go threw there life searchign for it
not realizing that they found it
cause its exactly what there doing
then they waste all there time looking for something they already had
2007-10-08 12:30:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only meaning it has is the one you give it
or
Life's purpose or 'meaning' is to create more life to evolve, or to ascend... a never ending process of pure potential creating more Life....beyond that- unknown
2007-10-08 11:32:09 · answer #9 · answered by zentrinity 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no meaning to anything, life or otherwise. That's what makes life worthwhile.
2007-10-08 11:28:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋