why? what is our true destination? is there a destination?
2007-10-21 18:27:05 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
We might have something of a destination. Life ultimately ends at some point. Where it ends is usually anyone's guess. Yet what physically constitutes a human body doesn't end. It decomposes and the particles are dispersed. Where those particles ultimately end up is, I think, on a cosmic scale, equal to the fate of our universe. In other words, I don't know.
As to why we are alive in the first place, again I have no definitive answer. But I'll give 'er a go.
We are alive...to live. It is the experience that matters. Forget the destination. Forget the meaning of things. Feel what you feel. Taste, enjoy, cry, laugh and scream to your hearts content. Screw religion. Screw atheists and people telling you about truths and facts. Just live.
2007-10-21 18:49:03 · answer #1 · answered by Starmark 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most of us are alive because our parents had the bright idea to have sex one night. Some of us are the result of a biochemistry experiment gone horribly wrong.
Our true destination is to reach the end of our lives and almost all of us do exactly that. Others, refuse to cooperate and the end of their lives are brought to them on a toasted french roll.
In all fairness, your question is, at best, ambiguous and vague. However it has merit. Philosophically speaking, our lives are a culmination of the circumstances and experiences that we accumulate during its course. In most cases, the destination is the logical conclusion of these factors. I don't think that there is any other outcome to a persons life than the 'true' destination. It is true simply it is the conclusion that unfolds. One cannot, by definition, live their life and have it result in an 'untrue' outcome. What happens is what happens and that defines the truthfulness of it..
2007-10-21 19:29:01 · answer #2 · answered by Gee Whizdom™ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because we simply choose to be alive.... we been created to live in this world...to be a productive individual for the betterment of all, God gave us the best gift of all, and that is the free will to choose.... we're alive because its simply our choice... and yes there is a destination, everything has a destination, its only a matter of choice... our true destination depends on our selves...on every choices we made in our life. Every little choice we made in our life became a little stones that forms the path that will lead us to our true destination.
2007-10-21 19:17:11 · answer #3 · answered by emontesone 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A true destination is the fulfillment of a true purpose. That requires God.
Without God there is no destination and no purpose. We cannot accept that because things that have no purpose have no worth and our human nature demands that our lives be worth living.
Without God, we invent activities that give us the illusion of having purpose. "Live life to the fullest" and "life is what you make it" and "live forever or die trying", and "change the world" are examples of illusionary purpose.
2007-10-22 00:12:58 · answer #4 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We are alive because of science and mother-nature. Our life/adventure leads us to our different destinations. I like to think of our destination in the same way as the story Lion King explains it: the circle of life. When an animal dies their body breaks down and feeds the earth, which feeds the living, who die and feed the earth...............
2007-10-21 22:28:07 · answer #5 · answered by anybody 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amazingly enough Metal Gear Solid knows the answer!
Genes exist to pass down our hopes and dreams for the future through our children. Living is a link to the future. That's how all life works. Loving each other, teaching each other... that's how we can change the world. I finally realized it. The true meaning of life... Thank you, Snake.
2007-10-21 20:06:46 · answer #6 · answered by Brian W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're alive because you haven't, as yet, died.
As far as a 'destination' goes........ It's only what you make it.
Doug
2007-10-21 18:44:35 · answer #7 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The sifting of DNA occured billions of years ago, and has since lived and instigated you to successfully question the evolutionary path of your descent and cession and if verticle roads offer solace for the sorrows of the sorcery.
2007-10-21 22:30:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are embodied to learn to master ourselves and ascend in the Light of God as have Enoch, Elijah, Jesus, and other "Saints robed in white."
Along with the Holy Bible, some modern yet I believe valid and reliable teachings include:
"Climb the HIghest Mountain," Mark L. Prophet;
"Watch Your Dreams," Ann Ree Colton;
"Man, Master of His Destiny," Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov;
"The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock http://www.divinecosmos.com
"The Unstruck Bell," Eknath Easwaran, Ph.D.;
"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck;
"Extraordinary Knowing," Dr. Elizabeth Mayer;
"The Great Divorce," a novella by C. S. Lewis;
"Sunyata: The Life and Sayings of a Rare-born Mystic," Camhi and Isenberg;
"Autobiography of a Yogi," Paramahansa Yogananda http://www.yogananda-srf.org
"The Field," Lynne McTaggart;
"Tortured for Christ," Reverend Richard Wurmbrand;
"Stay Alive, My Son," Pin Yathay;
"Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer," Yvonne von Fettweis;
"Talks with Great Composers," Arthur Abell, M.D.'
"Entering the Circle" and "The Master of Lucid Dreams," psychiatrist Olga Kharitidi.
"When Invisible Children Sing," Huang.
"Psychoenergetic Science," Dr. William Tiller http://www.tiller.org
Http://www.coasttocoastam.com radio has guests who talk about this as well.
best regards,
j.
2007-10-21 19:39:48 · answer #9 · answered by j153e 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
there is no "why". All life is basically an accident.
We are no different from the wildebeest or even a flea. There is no destination. You are here to recycle the free energy at the surface of the earth.
2007-10-21 18:32:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋