Humanity??? Please help!?

Question

13 is such a small number! I've only been alive for 13 years. I'm in the 8th grade...I've got 4 years until I graduate high school, about 9 until I graduate college depending on what degree I end up going for...then I'm on my own. I have to do my own grocery shopping, buy my own stuff...fend for myself. I we piss someone off we get shot! I don't just get threatened to get my butt whooped. no one gets it! I'm still a kid, but at the same time...I'm not. Its time to grow up, no messing around like I used to.
1 year...365 days, 8760 hours 525600 minutes...31536000 seconds? Those are such small numbers!!... do you ever think about the meaning of life??? Do you ever wonder if there really is a purpose for living, what's the meaning of life? How did human kind start? The Big Bang? God? It couldn't have started by itself!! If God did it then how does God even exist. I don't want criticism, I just want help...sooo help! OMGsh =[
Ahhh please help peoples!!!!!

Answer 1

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.....

Answer 2

Hello:

Well lets start here: Stop worrying about all that stuff and see if life is any different...you will notice that it is not. This does not meant we cannot affect the world, however moment to moment what we think and how we feel does not do anything to it as a whole.

Why are we here and how did it start...well people have been asking these two for as long as we can remember and no answer for sure yet...now as special and smart as I think I am, i do not think my mind the greatest to ever live...so I am likely never to know the answer to these two.

Really one way or another everything you worry about will be either true or not...God exists or does not, however these are questions we will not know the answer to...this does not take away from what life is.

Close your eyes for 30 seconds then open them. take a deep breath...what do you hear? what do you smell? This is what life is and thats what it is all about. How you spend the moments of your life is what gives the things you do meaning. Helping people can be important because that is what you choose to use your life for...or sleeping all day and partying all night can mean something to you if that is what you spend your time doing.

Time is pretty subjective so you will see the next years fly by and you will be on your own before you can blink twice. Enjoy it while you can and enjoy where you are while you can...there is no going back to 13 once its past.

Don't worry about it so much though...tomorrow is going to get here in its own time one way or another.

I hope this helps

Rev Phil

Answer 3

Sounds like you are very mature for your age. If you are ready to grow up then do it. Let go of childish things and take that step. Just remember that you are bound to the rules of other people right now. You won't always be able to have it your way. You have to pursue your goals within the framework provided by your parents and by society. But you don't have to let that stop you. It just means that you may have to be a little creative to get what you are after.

1 year...365 days, 8760 hours 525600 minutes...31536000 seconds. Small numbers? Yes and no. One year can be a long time if you use it wisely, or a short time if you squander it. I think about the meaning of life quite often. I think the reason we are here is personal growth.

Relax, you have a lot of time to answer these questions for yourself. I know it feels like life is fleeting but 13 isn't so old. You still have a lot of life ahead of you.

Answer 4

Hi Rachel

It does look like a big scary world from 13 doesn't it?

I remember. The trick is not worrying about it so much.

The simple truth is, things will work out fine for you. At first it will be a little scary but soon you will figure out that everyone else is just as confused as you are. This helps believe it or not. You will do just fine. Just don't think so hard about it that you get your self all scared and worried.

Remember, there will always be people who love you that you can turn to when you need help.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 5

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative. The Will its self should supply you with all the positives you need to have purpose in your life and the Judgment should supply your purpose for others. You need to satisfy your needs in proper order.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow

From Abraham Maslow: 'Maslow postulated that needs are arranged in a hierarchy in terms of their potency. Although all needs are instinctive, some are more powerful than others. The lower the need is in the pyramid, the more powerful it is. The higher the need is in the pyramid, the weaker and more distinctly human it is. The lower, or basic, needs on the pyramid are similar to those possessed by non-human animals, but only humans possess the higher needs.

The first four layers of the pyramid are what Maslow called "deficiency needs" or "D-needs:" the individual does not feel anything if they are met, but feels anxious if they are not met..... Needs beyond the D-needs are "growth needs," "being values," or "B-needs." When fulfilled, they do not go away; rather, they motivate further.

The base of the pyramid is formed by the physiological needs, including the biological requirements for food, water, air, and sleep.

Once the physiological needs are met, an individual can concentrate on the second level, the need for safety and security. Included here are the needs for structure, order, security, and predictability.

The third level is the need for love and belonging. Included here are the needs for friends and companions, a supportive family, identification with a group, and an intimate relationship.

The fourth level is the esteem needs. This group of needs requires both recognition from other people that results in feelings of prestige, acceptance, and status, and self-esteem that results in feelings of adequacy, competence, and confidence. Lack of satisfaction of the esteem needs results in discouragement and feelings of inferiority.

Finally, self-actualization sits at the apex of the original pyramid.'

'Maslow also proposed that people who have reached self-actualization will sometimes experience a state he referred to as "transcendence," in which they become aware of not only their own fullest potential, but the fullest potential of human beings at large. He described this transcendence and its characteristics in an essay in the posthumously published The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. (see flow).

In the essay, he describes this experience as not always being transitory, but that certain individuals might have ready access to it, and spend more time in this state. He makes a point that these individuals experience not only ecstatic joy, but also profound "cosmic-sadness" (Maslow, 1971) at the ability of humans to foil chances of transcendence in their own lives and in the world at large.'

Answer 6

These are big questions. As long as there have been philosophers, people have been trying to answer them. At some point in their lives, everyone asks these questions. There are no concrete answers or we'd have heard of them by now.
Most likely your are feeling overwhelmed by it all. To me it really is simple...the meaning of life is in the living of it. What you do and the decisions you make are what give your life meaning. How you feel and what you think gives your life meaning. Accept your existence; it's useless to question why you exist and live your life the best you can.
Not everyone will want to shoot you if you piss them off, but it is best to try not to piss off too many people.

Answer 7

I don't think that anyone can really answer these questions for you. Everyone has been brought up in a different way, has had a different life and had different experiences and all of these will change the way in which they answer these questions. At the risk of ebing corny, i'm going to say that the bestthing to do is to look inside yourself for answers to these questions. Maybe you want discuss them with your friends but it's you who has to come up with the final answers.

Answer 8

I don't get the "question" but here is the basics:
God made the world and sent Jesus to save all peoples who repent and ask for forgiveness.

Check the Bible and speak to a preacher about your feelings.

Answer 9

If your up for an adventure, and interested in results, instead of just happy, go-lucky thoughts, peruse my posts in my profile....and of those others, i chose to Journey, with, Hopefully somewhere between tragedy and growth lies your solution. But good luck, however you decide!

The blue or red pill you decide....

Answer 10

The thing that can help you the most is to just RELAX!
It's all going to happen eventually regardless of how much or how little you worry.