2007-11-29 10:32:58 · 5 answers · asked by Joe S 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Without God, the meaning of life degenerates into a search for a psychological crutch that gets us past suicide. Crutches that generally are used: keep us too busy to think; focused on happy thoughts; and substitute building self esteem for accomplishing real purpose.
2007-12-02 23:00:07 · answer #1 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't the objective and eternal basis by which people assume in order to derive the supposed meaning of their own lives fail to satisfy anything other than the urge to find that meaning? How is the idea that you only exist to serve and grovel before your Creator at all an acceptable answer to the meaning of life? How does it explain, given an afterlife, the significance of this life that we know exists?
2007-11-29 10:46:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only in the mind of the person with the lack of an objective or eternal basis. In reality, the meaning of life remain the same no matter our beliefs.
2007-11-29 10:37:16 · answer #3 · answered by Even Haazer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the other said...your life is a blank tablet...write upon it your own meanings and words. Your question is why the God (assuming there is one) concept still exists. Science and philosophy can only offer cursory answers to your question "What is the meaning of life". So into that vacum enters religion which purports to answer...Trust me it doesn't...Only you know and can establish meaning for your life. PEACE!
2007-11-29 10:44:31 · answer #4 · answered by thebigm57 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it makes it a tabula rasa, a blank template on which to write the history of your life.......
Live, or else others will live your life....
2007-11-29 10:36:20 · answer #5 · answered by Lex Fok B.M.F. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋