2007-12-19 10:17:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
42.
2007-12-19 10:25:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous Voice 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
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.....
2007-12-20 20:01:21 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is life. You get on with it. The question is more what is the meaning of YOUR life. Take all you've got and run with it.
:-)
2007-12-19 18:30:10 · answer #3 · answered by Tom 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is to fulfill our full potential for developing, experiencing and providing love, joy, peace, kindness and wisdom as our contribution to the human experience. We do this in imitation of those same gifts freely given to us by God.
2007-12-19 18:39:31 · answer #4 · answered by b_steeley 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
1 STOP ASKING THIS BLOODY QUESTION!
it has been asked over 70,000 times already!
2 STOP SAYING 42! you fools are KILLING a great joke!
3. NO ONE KNOWS! if they did, they would most likely be making bank off it.
4. i personally believe that THERE ARE DIFFERENT MEANINGS FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL. if there was one simple meaning for all of us, it would be TO FIND THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS, & again, i think that secret is different to each person!
2007-12-20 00:39:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anarchist Skywalker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
to ask questions.
2007-12-20 03:56:06 · answer #6 · answered by wildbill_52280 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋