2007-10-16 16:53:32 · 14 answers · asked by yellow_carded 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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.....
2007-10-16 20:48:00 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-10-17 00:21:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man with his burning soul
Has but an hour of breath
To build a ship of Truth
In which his soul may
Sail on the sea of death
For death takes toll
Of beauty, courage, youth
Of all but Truth.
- John Masefield.
2007-10-19 08:00:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are really, really, really interested there are 2,345,921 versions of this ill-conceived, flaccid question on Yahoo Answers. Why not look back and read some of those instead of boring us with yet another useless rendition?
2007-10-17 05:40:49 · answer #4 · answered by Tyler's Mate 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To achieve the best you can be as a human, being helpful, to love and care of people, of yourself. To teach with the example and learn with your senses, to open your eyes and your mind, to talk with your heart, to leave a path behind you, cause you have done good to this world.
2007-10-17 00:39:27 · answer #5 · answered by Dragonheart 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I answer this the same way, everytime. So, life is what you make of it! 8)
2007-10-17 00:55:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
enjoy life with others, when you can make others enjoy the time spent, it was not a wasted time
2007-10-17 00:33:27 · answer #7 · answered by nunya b 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
why do u ask a question no one knows...first basically you serve god..thats a given..second you gain as much knowledge as possible...of course everyone wants that....third you figure it out because i dont know..you tell me
2007-10-17 00:38:55 · answer #8 · answered by V 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
to experience a physical existence.
2007-10-17 00:03:13 · answer #9 · answered by StealthShadow 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
ugh!! now i know why people get upset over repeat after repeat after repeat questions!!!! use the search tool man! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
2007-10-20 20:31:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋