2007-11-01 12:33:12 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.
2007-11-01 15:53:09 · 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.....
2007-11-01 14:18:09 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont waste time thinking about questions that have no definite answers.for example dont think about how we were created or how the universe was created. just think about the present and how we can help each other become happy and usefull to everyone.
2007-11-01 12:41:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
42 and "Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live."
2007-11-02 10:48:20 · answer #4 · answered by the ferrari man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe that we will find out the meaning of our life when we die..its all one big merry go round....
2007-11-01 12:44:59 · answer #5 · answered by George H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To have fun, and enjoy life.
2007-11-01 12:35:47 · answer #6 · answered by Simba<3 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html
2007-11-01 12:35:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
42
FP
2007-11-01 12:35:58 · answer #8 · answered by F. Perdurabo 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋