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R2D2 asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 7 years ago

What is the meaning of life?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago
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    In Shakespeare’s’ Macbeth: “It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

    In straight talk: Life is a story told by an idiot; full of noise and emotional disturbance but devoid of meaning.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    It's good.It seems to show a sort of maturity.Life has meaning for sure.Everything around you is proof of God.Everything in nature plays in harmony and works together to form a perfectly sustainable system.There is not a single flaw that exists which would be even remotely detrimental to overall life on earth.Think about this clearly,deeply if you will and things will start to makes sense.How can this be possible ......Just look at yourself for example.How perfect the human form is.With whatever necessary needed to make it the dominant species in the long run.

    [The Human body is the most perfect creation of God.It is not 'perfect' but it s as perfect as possible.As I've said we have whatever it would take to become the dominant species in the long run thereby putting us top of the animal kingdom despite animals having certain advantages over us.So we have the overall/net advantage.]Now just think,suppose a evolution did happen and a micro organism formed by accident.At the immediate second it became alive it had to have the ability to eat,breath,excrete ,reproduce etc. at the very instant it was born. IF even one of the mechanisms did not exist then the organism would die the next second it was born.So how did everything come exactly as life would require it?And that too in a single instant the 'mistake' happened?Let us now consider single aspects at a time- So suppose if the organism was born it would have to have evolved the ability to reproduce.But it had no ancestors to evolve the ability from.So it could not multiply (without considering it would die due inability to breath,inability to eat,missing digestive system for specific food it eats etc.) and therefore no offspring.Therefore no life would be there today.Now suppose an organism was born by accident,it needs a developed system for food and excretion from the very instant it came alive because the food not only has to be captured but it also has to be utilised and the waste removed because the waste would possibly cause harm.The same applies to the other requirements for life.Further more,DNA is like a DVD that requires a computer to be of any use.DNA just floating around does not do anything.It requires a body capable of reading the information and then implementing it.You see ,so the organism 'also' had to have a DNA containing all the information of the body structure (even the the body structure was by accident-so how did it know?) and also a system capable of containing the information and processing it.

    Scientist have created proteins in situations similar to those of a young earth.Guess what.Like DNA,protein does not mean life.It requires an already fully functioning body to be of any use in life processes.

    The ability for an animal or organism to learn from it's surrounding and genetically adapt is within the DNA.So what small modifications we 'do' see are nothing but "adaptive mutation".Without DNA that allows for the specific changes in DNA,evolution could not occur.So yes we are evolving now, but did not evolve into existence.Many who do not believe in God embrace the theory that living things emerged from lifeless chemicals through unknown and mindless processes.

    Supposedly, at some point a bacteria-like, self-replicating organism arose, gradually branching out into all the species that exist today. This would imply that ultimately the mind-bogglingly complex human actually evolved from bacteria.Bacteria!(or something close to it)

    Since evolution is not true in any way the only plausible conclusion is that a Single Creator exists.Even by using one's wisdom one must realise that everything had to come from something that had always existed.This is the only way how our reality of cause-and-effect can operate.If every effect had a cause which is also an effect of another cause and so on ,the universe could not exist. It's like asking who created us ?Who created God?Who created that God and so on....therefore an entity who always existed and with the power of creation is the only way else we would not be here because the effect requires a cause which is itself not an effect.So even from an evolutionary point of view,the blob of matter and energy that exploded at the time of the big bang always existed no matter how far back in time you go.There has to be a starting point which itself did not have a beginning.This applies to God too.He can only have always existed else we would not be here.He is an element of reality just as 2+2 equals 4.And since this magnificent and unimaginably massive created-world exists,the one that created 'must' be unimaginably powerful.He will therefore have a purpose.The only logical purpose one can think of as to why God would create is only to be worshipped because he is self sufficient and has no needs/necessities but has wants/desires.What desire can A God that controls all things want?I think all one has to do is worship the one true God and do good.

  • 7 years ago

    Asking rhetorical questions on yahoo answers.

  • 7 years ago

    Heartache.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    7 years ago

    A sweet journey toward the death.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    7 years ago

    Good question. I don't know, never thought of it.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Death

  • Uuftk
    Lv 4
    7 years ago

    and if there is none?

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