2007-11-08 01:42:43 · 9 answers · asked by Fallout 5 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.....
2007-11-08 03:48:48 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life's meaning is to live. There are no great subtleties. It is the constant struggle to continue to exist as a biological entity.
2007-11-12 07:56:42 · answer #2 · answered by Iconoclast 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life does not have a meaning, it has a nature..
Which is to collect energy, to reproduce & to defend itself.
So get a job, find a mate, and be careful.
2007-11-08 09:53:40 · answer #3 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is one big experiment by some whacked out scientist with some bizarre material and an even stranger hypothesis.
2007-11-10 22:35:33 · answer #4 · answered by stowaway 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is what you Do for others & yourself as you move down the path of twists & turns of your existence.
2007-11-12 09:51:02 · answer #5 · answered by simplesimon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What the meaning of that question? I never got it.
2007-11-08 09:50:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LISTEN PEOPLE LIFE HAS NO MEANING. THERE IS A PURPOSE IN LIFE WHICH IS YOUR GOAL IN LIFE BEFORE YOU DIE.
2007-11-08 20:50:36 · answer #7 · answered by Blizzard 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question again, please!
No meaning at all.
2007-11-08 09:48:09 · answer #8 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be happy and to make others happy.
2007-11-08 20:41:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋