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Arthur N asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 9 years ago

What is the point of life?

Why is it that, despite everything bad that can and often does occur in a persons life, we still want to live? Is it fear of what comes next, hope that tomorrow will be better, delusions of nobler things, habit formed through years of the same, ... etc?

What is the point of life, why do we continue to choose to live instead of just laying down and dying?

Please explain your answers as completely as possible.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    I don't even know man. Lately I've just been living for everyone else. I feel like everyone deserves true, complete happiness except for me.

    I guess (for most people) there is always someone to live for. Personally, I couldn't give up on life because that would mean giving up on my brother, and my brother means the world to me, I'd do anything for him to be happy and alive.

    Some people are always looking on the bright side. Not me, but so many people,I don't know how they do it, they can always find happiness.

    I guess we're all going to die eventually, so cutting our trip on earth short is a waste. For all we know, anyways, what comes next could be more hellish than this.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Love /hate, Good/evil, pain/suffering, happiness/sorrow, positive/ negative, virtue/sin, soul/ body, heaven /hell.. are the creations of God and through tough times.. sometimes, God test us that How much we trust on HIM, how much we Love Him....in specific situation....

    Certainly.... God always resides deep within our soul and everywhere... in everything. Do you really think.. God feels happiness when we suffer pain? Not at all. But He expect something from us.... that is "Pure love in Pure Soul"..

    Actually, we are spiritual souls but we are in human body.. we are from spiritual world. God has sent us on the earth...only for self realization.. as our souls are not as pure as, they have to be... So God has given us human life where our body feels happiness as well as suffers pain. Therefore, we souls are here... to achieve... the level of purity..... To become pure soul.... we should make an effort to understand the deeper meaning of unconditional love for all living beings.... in every situation.

    Moreover, The Eternal Nature of the Soul is to Love God......as our soul is the Part and Parcel of Supreme Soul "God"..

    Read Bhagavad Gita deeply... for every answer about Human life and Eternal life....

    http://vedabase.com/en/bg

  • ?
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    There is no point. That, itself, is the best news anyone can hear. You can make your life mean whatever you want it to. You can be whoever you want to be.

    We continue living because we have goals. We do not want to have passed on without accomplishing them.

    Time is precious. Do what you need to do.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    The point is we are here to live and enjoy our life. Life is a gift whether is good or bad.

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  • 9 years ago

    Life is beautiful. You learn from struggles. God doesn't give you what you can't handle. We're all here for a reason.

  • Sam
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    To reproduce, have fun, and relex. Life is a journey, so why not enjoy it all the time.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    For you to decide where you going to go after you die

    Source(s): Heaven -or- hell
  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    to live and to love!

  • 9 years ago

    YOLO ;D

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