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Colon
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Colon asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 7 years ago

What's the point of trying to learn or accomplish anything when you'll die anyways?

Just to clarify, I don't personally believe that life has no purpose, but ever since I heard about someone asking this, I've been trying to answer it for myself. It really bothers me because I can't come up with a satisfactory explanation. After pondering this question for days, I feel like all my hopes, dreams, and ambitions are being sapped away by doubt--that maybe all the effort I've spent towards achieving my goals is pointless since death is inevitable, and once I die, everything I've learned will vanish, and none of my accomplishments will mean anything to me once I'm dead.

So why do many people, especially pessimists, insist on asking this question to death, when the very act of asking the question uses a tiny bit of effort, which contradicts the assumption that trying to do anything is pointless when death is inevitable?

What are some strong arguments for trying to learn and accomplish something despite inevitable death?

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  • 7 years ago
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    because so we won't waste time explaining to people.

    To make

    sure you know there are continents, countries, languages, science... before you turned 18.

    So you won't be asking "why, why, why?'"

  • 7 years ago

    Well it's about the 70 years between now and then. You could sit around and wait to die, or spend some of that time getting an education and job and some assets and power in the world and do some cool things in the time you have. It's all about now, our time in the waiting room. You can sit in a comfortable chair and engage interesting people, or just sit in a corner and do nothing. But, probably when the wait is over, it's just lights out - nothing in the future, or at least no reason to think there is.

  • Jesere
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    The point in Living on the Physical Plane is to learn

    from adversity, negativity, tragedy and loss to further the Growth of our Soul

    none of which exist on the Spiritual Plane which is our True Home.

    We are Spiritual Beings having a Physical Experience...

    and you will not forget everything you learned once you die

    you will remember all that you had to forget to come to the Physical Plane

    Death is just the shedding of the Physical Body...

    ----------------------------------------------------

    The Afterlife Experiments:

    Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death

    by Ph.D. Gary E. Schwartz Ph.D.

  • 7 years ago

    Death is only inevitable, after you have lived.

    So make the most of life. It can be a lot of fun, and accomplishments are rewarding.

    I have no use for pessimists. They are so worried about being hurt, that they miss all the joy in life.

    Enjoy "anticipation" as it is the greatest joy in life. Yes, you will be disappointed when some of your anticipations fail to materialize, but anticipation is the ride. Enjoy the ride to its fullest.

  • Sara
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    My advice is "Just keep going."

    Keep learning, even when you are old.

    How do we know what lies ahead, anyway? Maybe something you accomplish now will make all the difference later on. Life can be very long.

    Nothing endures physically, except maybe stone monuments, plastics, or ceramics.

    Perhaps the most significant thing you can do is teach your children to be honest and compassionate people, so that they pass on a legacy of honorable people for hundreds of generations.

  • 7 years ago

    You speak as though you are an island unto yourself. All your efforts, achievements and ambitions will affect so many others. Your family, your children, your friends. We will leave pieces of our self behind after we die. It is through our achievements that we leave an indelible mark on this earth. If we achieve nothing, we will have nothing to leave for those who come after us.

    This questions always bugs me. It makes the asker seem like a skid-row bum. "I'm not going to try because I'm going to die anyway." So they lay in the gutter waiting to go, all the while wasting this beautiful life and all that might have been experienced, learned, taught and passed on within our cycle to the next cycle. Singularly we are nothing, but together we are amazing.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    you have to remember that death isn't possible without first being born, and thus, every living thing will eventually die. this being said, i think the point of living, even when death is inevitable, is to embrace that whilst you have been born, death is imminent, and as such to value the short time we have, in the knowledge that you won't be here forever.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    I'm tired of seeing these questions from people who think death cheapens life. No! Death makes life more precious and worth living.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    That is an individual preference and taken on a case by case basis.

    If you are apathetic to the point of nihilism, don't generalize that condition to the rest of the population.

  • 7 years ago

    what i usually thunk about is that okay we are born and then life happens and then we die. but in this life period you have to work your best to accomplish and discover things that will improve the future life of others eg. edison studied and he achieved all of that electrity stuff, which has made our lifes better imagine if we didnt have electricity? see its trying to improve future generations way of life

    Source(s): though of it myself
  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    We are living to die hey and its the cycle of life makes no sense but we are doing it anyway :)

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