Firstly, I wanted to write about Tim's 1st topic, but then I thought that the post which involves only one word - "No" - won't be that enough to be exciting to read, although, may be, it was easy to understand and to comment it.
So I've chosen Anna's topic, which seemed to be the most interesting. Sometimes we discuss such questions with my friends, although not very often - all of us already know the thoughts of the others towards the topic.
warning: all my thoughts which will be explained here cannot be interpreted as an agression towards religion, I just do state my opinion, and I have a right to do it, don't I?
I do not believe that human's life involves any general sense or meaning, as I do not believe at any gods. However, I understand that in part it is a consiquence of the education that I had, and I do not try to convince somebody. The sense of life can not exist if we take as an axiom the absence of a creator, and, in my opinion, it is impossible to call the biological aspiration for reproduction as a general purport of life for the whole humanity. Despite it, we can produce a general goal of life for ourselves. There is a strange lexical point here which was the reason of a long discussion with some of my acquaintances because of missunderstanding - I believe that we can call "meaning of life" only something general and common for all of us, and, in this sense, it does not exist. But if we take it as the most important goal of life (which, logically, can be changed), it does.
What about me, I do not have any serious goal now. I just keep enjoying the life in my own way (may be I am just an egoistic hedonist). In contrast to some other people's thoughts, I do not think that the common, general meaning of everything we do has to be a part and parcel of our life. You do not have to "get as much new experience as you are able to", "have a family and raise two kids", "just enjoy your life", "be pious and religious", etc. - you DO NOT HAVE to do something. It's all up to you, you do not owe something to any supernatural beings or common morality, as your life belongs to you.
So I've chosen Anna's topic, which seemed to be the most interesting. Sometimes we discuss such questions with my friends, although not very often - all of us already know the thoughts of the others towards the topic.
warning: all my thoughts which will be explained here cannot be interpreted as an agression towards religion, I just do state my opinion, and I have a right to do it, don't I?
I do not believe that human's life involves any general sense or meaning, as I do not believe at any gods. However, I understand that in part it is a consiquence of the education that I had, and I do not try to convince somebody. The sense of life can not exist if we take as an axiom the absence of a creator, and, in my opinion, it is impossible to call the biological aspiration for reproduction as a general purport of life for the whole humanity. Despite it, we can produce a general goal of life for ourselves. There is a strange lexical point here which was the reason of a long discussion with some of my acquaintances because of missunderstanding - I believe that we can call "meaning of life" only something general and common for all of us, and, in this sense, it does not exist. But if we take it as the most important goal of life (which, logically, can be changed), it does.
What about me, I do not have any serious goal now. I just keep enjoying the life in my own way (may be I am just an egoistic hedonist). In contrast to some other people's thoughts, I do not think that the common, general meaning of everything we do has to be a part and parcel of our life. You do not have to "get as much new experience as you are able to", "have a family and raise two kids", "just enjoy your life", "be pious and religious", etc. - you DO NOT HAVE to do something. It's all up to you, you do not owe something to any supernatural beings or common morality, as your life belongs to you.
Wow! I think I have already asked a hundred of people about what they consider to be the meaning of our life but I have never heard of something similar to what you wrote in your post. It never fails to amaze me how many different points of view people have about this difficult question. Thank you for being sincere and stating your own opinion, and, of course, you have a right to do it, even though some people will disagree with you.
ReplyDeleteI think I do believe in God but I’m not sure if all humanity has any general meaning of its life. I usually call the purpose of our life the goals and aims that every person sets for himself (or herself). And, of course, these aims and goals can be changed. I agree with you that we do not HAVE to do something because everyone is master of his own destiny. However, I can’t imagine my life without any serious goal. I should have an aim that I try to achieve in order not to feel that I’m useless, lost and totally confused.
All in all, I’m deeply grateful that you chose my topic because your thoughts are so interesting to read!