What's the meaning of life anymore if everybody's so selfish?

Question

I don't know... I just came to a realization a few days ago, and it's all I can think about now. How it's human nature to only take what YOU need, and everything you do benefits yourself in some way or another. I'm really sick of life right now, and am starting to hate people in general, myself included. So why should you keep living for everybody else?

Answer 1

I know. I think it sucks too. Unfortunately, it has really become a dog eat dog world and you have to be selfish and fend for yourself to survive. Nobody is going to do it for you. I live for no one but myself and my family. I know a lot of people that think I'm a ***** but I learned not to care b/c if I back down people will walk all over me. You have to be strong and do for yourself.

Answer 2

so the meaning of life and why ppl are such selfish fu**s to each other. well if that's the way you look at it them maybe instead of bitching about it you could get out there and help those who need your help and make a change. Let see you get out of life What you put into it, I try to help all those who come into contact with me. I raise money for support programs, i do victim services for those who have suffered lose in there lives, i donate my time for nonprofit groups and i serve the community through committees and my work. You know i don't do it just to help them it helps me as well, i meet so many ppl who are great, some who are down on there luck others who are there helping just like you. So the real way to look at this is not what the hell is the meaning of life? It should be what the hell have you done to give your life or even someone else meaning?

Answer 3

This is where a little *Faith* comes in...Faith in *Someone* greater than ourselves.
I have no fear of life, no fear of death.
No loss of identity, but to be loved by *Someone* that I fully know I do not deserve His love

When life gets you down, and the only way is *Up*, focus your eyes upon God, and He will give you Hope, Purpose and Peace. All it takes is picking up the Holy Bible, closing your eyes, say a prayer, and open it up. Where you eyes fall upon the page, read ! And God will reach out to you and give you Great Comfort!

If you are missing these things in your life:
Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self control...........
Then hear now the verse that speaks of such:

"But the Fruit of the Spirit (of God) is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self control. Against such things, there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh (our self-pride) with its passions and desires (self-centeredness). If we live by the Spirit (live the ways of these attitudes), we must also follow the Spirit (God's ways)" Galations 5: 22-24

For now, those words may seem foreign, but the Holy Spirit will open your heart, soul and mind to understand such things if you only ASK. Just ASK. He's waiting to hear from you!

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Answer 4

There is something in our human nature that demands that our life be worth living. This is serious business. See what the philosopher Albert Camus said about it:

"There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide. Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy. All other questions follow from that."

When we were children, we had worth simply by the relationship of love to our parents. As we grow older, we start to seek our worth in the eyes of others. When we do that, we start to live for the praise of others. When we truly realize what we're doing, we're heartsick because living for the praise of other is not a life worth living.

Worth comes from living for a real purpose for only those things that have a purpose have worth.

Christians believe that we have worth simply because we are sons and daughters of the God who created us and loves us. Our purpose is to seek God and let Him reveal Himself to us and for us to find our joy in Him.

Answer 5

The philosophical question "What is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "What is the nature of life (and of the universe in which we live)?", "What is the significance of life?", "What is valuable in life?", and "What is the purpose of, or in, (one's) life?". These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and arguments, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations.

These questions are separate from the scientific issue of the boundary between things with life and inanimate objects.
Popular beliefs
"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives, most in the context "What is the purpose of life?" Here are some of the many potential answers to this perplexing question. The responses are shown to overlap in many ways but may be grouped into the following categories:

Survival and temporal success
...to live every day like it is your last and to do your best at everything that comes before you
...to be always satisfied
...to live, go to school, work, and die
...to participate in natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future of intelligent life
...to compete or co-operate with others
...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
...to gain and exercise power
...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
...to eat
...to prepare for death
...to spend life in the pursuit of happiness, maybe not to obtain it, but to pursue it relentlessly.
...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction (alike to participating in evolution)
...to protect and preserve one's kin, clan, or tribe (akin to participating in evolution)
...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
...to observe the ultimate fate of humanity to the furthest possible extent
...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means
...to attempt to have many sexual conquests (as in Arthur Schopenhauer's will to procreate)
...to find and take over all free space in this "game" called life
...to seek and find beauty
...to kill or be killed
...No point. Since having a point is a condition of living human consciousness. Animals do not need a point to live or exist. It is more of an affliction of consciousness that there are such things as points, a negative side to evolutionary development for lack of better words.

Wisdom and knowledge
...to master and know everything
...to be without questions, or to keep asking questions
...to expand one's perception of the world
...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes
...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
...to understand and be mindful of creation or the cosmos
...to lead the world towards a desired situation
...to satisfy the natural curiosity felt by humans about life

Ethical
...to express compassion
...to follow the "Golden Rule"
...to give and receive love
...to work for justice and freedom
...to live in peace with yourself and each other, and in harmony with our natural environment
...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
...to serve others, or do good deeds

Religious and spiritual
...to find perfect love and a complete expression of one's humanness in a relationship with God
...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
...to become like God, or divine
...to glorify God
...to experience personal justice (i.e. to be rewarded for goodness)
...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. to seek objectivity)
...to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment, and atonement
...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
...to discover who you are
...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced

Philosophical
...to give life meaning
...to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
...to know the meaning of life
...to achieve self-actualisation
...all possible meanings have some validity
...life in itself has no meaning, for its purpose is an opportunity to create that meaning, therefore:
...to die
...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
...nature taking its course (the wheel of time keeps on turning)
...whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception"
...there is no purpose or meaning whatsoever
...life may actually not exist, or may be illusory )
...to contemplate "the meaning of the end of life"

Other
...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general
...to participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe
...to make conformists' lives miserable
...to make life as difficult as possible for others (i.e. to compete