What is the point of living if we are all going to die and all we do is create destruction to this world?

Answer 1

If that was it, then there would be no point. However, there is alot an individual can do to change the world. Each person who makes a difference affects generations moving forward. If you know you are going to die, then you should live each day like it was your last. See the great things the world has to offer. Make an impact on your fellow man.

Answer 2

2 things. Are you speaking about the individual or the species ?
Individually, yes, we are all going to die. But what is a human or even by extension a living being ?
I think we are just vehicle, generating, transporting and transfering information. If we are talking about bacteria, they are mainly vehicle of their genes. Then, when the living beings are getting more complex, they are generating other type of information like behaviour, communication etc...
Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Victor Hugo, Homere, Rubens, Da Vinci are still among us, through their genes and their works. All of us are bringing a small stone to build the house of mankind and more generally of life. We are leaving this stone and we survive to our body.
Ancient people knew this intuitively. In West Africa, some people believed that bodies were just the recipient of soul and that soul were going on earth to achieve something. If that was not done, the soul will keep re-incarnating in another body, the doors of the soul world was the termite nest.
It illustrates poetically how we are surviving to our bodies, not through a naive paradise, hell or whatever they call it but through what we do on this earth. We are the one creating paradise or hell for our own genes.
Mr Richard Dawkins called this the selfish gene. He postulated the natural selection applied to the survival of the fittest genes, not to the individual nor the species. Most time, the survival of the individual and moreover the species coincides with the one of the genes but not always. Similarly, complex livings are generating 'memes' which are to the ideas/behaviour what genes is to life. Memes are 'using' species on a similar way than genes. For example, most religious behaviours are memes. Not eating pork meat for muslims is a meme. It is a behaviour that appears in hot country where pork meat could easily be parasited. However, it survived even now in Europe where pork meat is safe. It is self replicating, surviving the individuals.

So our survival as individual, view from this perspective is doomed. It explains why most species are dying after reproduction. It explains a lot of things. What is important is to leave our genes and our ideas on this earth. To leave our foot step on the sand of this world.

However, human is one of the only animal if not the only one that has the power to destroy himself as a species. It poses here a problem : is this a meme and in that case, how can a meme be suicidal ?

Answer 3

All things die, even the world. If people worried about death, then nothing would get accomplished. The point is to do what you can while you are here. Do what you can to make the world better for you and your fellow man. It can be big, or it can be as simple as volunteering at a women's shelter or cleaning up a highway.

Answer 4

A coupla things: We do NOT die.
We just pass to another dimension.
See www.nderf.org, then click on Current NDEs and you will see what I mean.
Second, you are correct, there is a lot of meanness, deception, and anger in the world, and believe it or not, you have been sent here to bring a sense of peace to all these lost souls. That's what Jesus meant when he said (referring to miracles) "These things shall ye do, and yes even greater." (From a Course in Miracles).

Answer 5

we get to know joy and love and be amazed while we're here..... and the world will go on quite nicely.... living is all we get, so make the most of it!!!

Answer 6

"God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life". - (Jn. 3:16)

"He that believes on me has everlasting life".- Jesus.. (Jn. 6:47)

"This is eternal life; that they may know Thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent:. -- Jesus (Jn. 17:3)