my life is meaningless because it is very likely that 300 years after my death nobody will remember me.?

Question

Criticize it (argue against it) thanx

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Answer 1

Well in my opinion, it depends. If you conform to the society, and just do things people expect you to do like many others in this world, then you most likely will only be a name 300 years later. However, if you do something extraordinary, something that would either leave a beneficial or negative impact on society, then you will be remembered.

Plus, also consider that even half of celebrities won't even be remembered 300 years later, but other prominent people such as philosophers, writers, artists, politicians, activists, etc. who contributed to a change are more remembered in society.

So, if you do something that would actually help the world, and leave an impact in whatever way, then I'm sure you could be remembered.

However, just because you're not remembered 300 years later, doesn't mean your life is meaningless. Just doing what you desire, and being around the people you love makes life so meaningful.

Answer 2

It’s been said that the beginning of maturity is when we accept, emotionally and not just intellectually, that we must die. In the entire history of the human race, the number of people who are remembered centuries after their death is perhaps literally one in a million. Isn’t it presumptuous to think that we somehow have the right to be among them? In any case, ultimately ALL human endeavor is futile. In a few billion years the sun will expand to engulf the earth and the inner planets, wiping out all our art, our histories, our monuments, even our mountains and oceans. A grim prospect? Not if it leads us to appreciate the present ("seize the day") and to understand that what matters is not being remembered but how we live our lives, in accord with our own system of beliefs and values. A good life is no less good because it comes to an end, and that’s the philosophy we should live by.

Answer 3

whats so cool about being remembered? Is that what you think is important about life, having people remember you? Archaeologists dig up bits and pieces of stuff from more than 300 years ago and work it what it is and what sort of people used it - that could happen in 300 years with something you discard and be some amazing discovery but the people who find it may never know who owned it just like archaeologists today.

Also, maybe something you do will influence someone else to do something that WILL be remembered in 300 years time but you may never know what it was you did, like you might give blood and save the life of the mother of the first person to ever make contact with intelligent life from another planet and if you hadn't of given that blood she might have died and that person never been born.

Those are just my thoughts on this - I hope you find them of interest

Answer 4

Watch "It's a Wonderful Life."

Even if people don't remember you, your life is not meaningless. If influences so many people. The world would be different without you, even 300 years after your death.

(I'm glad I just thought of that. I have a few friends who bring this up every now and then...it makes me sad sometimes.)

Answer 5

Jesus died for everyone, who cares if your human life in remembered, some of us are not gonna be! but our souls will live on forever, this is just a stage like learning to walk or being born, death isnot the end, thats what you are not taking into account, in 300 years after you die, your soul will still be hanging out in a way better place...

Answer 6

Why are you concerned about people remembering you 300 years after your death?
Life is complex and can be difficult with all of the challenges we encounter along the way. I am only concerned with making my life (and the lives of my loved ones) as happy and as comfortable as possible without negatively affecting others. After I am gone, I am only concerned with the well being of my loved ones, not name recognition for myself.

Answer 7

Unless you are a Napoleon or a Florence Nightengale it is very likely no one will remember you. But heck, why should you care--- you won't be here to notice that no one is thinking about you.
I would rather be not remembered than to be remembered for some foul deed I committed like Jack the Ripper or even Adolf Hitler.
Think about it.

Answer 8

Wow, you hit the nail on the head! We are but a moment in time, but we do influence the outcomes of the future, though minutely. 300 years from now, only that which you touched with your existence will exist. Our purpose in life is to make a difference, and not to focus on the Me, but on the We.

Answer 9

There's pobably like 15 people alive right now that will be remembered in 300 years. Just make sure that when people DO remember you, nomatter if it's in 10 years or 100, that it's for something good.

Answer 10

loss of existence after loss of existence makes it sluggish right here lots extra significant. It additionally makes homicide a much extra heinous crime. This existence is the only shot we will ever get, so, ppl do no longer take a seat around on your backside, moaning, arise and do some thing significant with it. now and returned i glance at some people, and that i think of, 'existence is so short and precious, and so surprisingly no longer likely, and that's what you have desperate to do with it?'