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Position:Home>Philosophy> We are all going to die one day - so why do we bother doing anything?Question: We are all going to die one day - so why do we bother doing anything!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: If you cannot find any meaning in existence, then you have no reason to do anything or to not do anything!. If it doesn't matter whether we live or die, then either choice makes just as much sense!. Calvin once complains about this to Hobbes!. In response to the question about what there is in life that is worth living for, Hobbes says "There's always seafood!." So why not take his example and just live for something you really like!? And if life is too painful, and you have no family or friends to be hurt by it, you could always commit suicide!. I am not trying to be rude by this--I am sincere!. But, it is very unlikely that you have no family or friends, and they would be hurt by that, so just live for pleasure!. Have lots of sex and eat good food!Www@QuestionHome@Com enjoy the rideWww@QuestionHome@Com to make ourselves happyWww@QuestionHome@Com I think we should enjoy life while we have it god gave it to us now use it Suka!Www@QuestionHome@Com So we can enjoy ourselves!!! also to halp others in future generations!.!.!.ie inventing something, discovering and sharing knowledgeWww@QuestionHome@Com Because you'll starve if you don't do anything, and it's going to be unpleasant! And because we're all basically afraid of death, so we're trying to put it off as long as possible!Www@QuestionHome@Com Because humans have the illusion that by working hard you will be happy and successful!. Happiness is an illusion!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Life is full of choices!. Even the decision to stop eating, sit down and let your organs shut down is a choice until the instant that you become too weak to move!. In this instance, the options are 1!. Kill yourself!. 2!. Do nothing and let your body shut down!. 3!. Meander through life!. 4!. Act, take hold of your life!. 1 is just as futile as any other action, and it (as far as I know, I have no idea if there is an afterlife or not) removes all of the other choices!. 2 is similar to 1, but more boring!. 3 is as boring as hell!. That leaves 4!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I think we do so much and with such excess because we are trying to avoid the notion of death, which I believe is after all just an idea that we have woven around something that we perceive as being the ultimate threat to ourselves, and as we, like other animals, are instinctively geared towards survival, this terrifies us!. Because, unlike other animals, we seem to have built up complex 'selves' around our bodies that have attachments in the form of families, relationships, material possessions, ambitions, and so on, and that allow us to use words like "us" and "them" or "you" and "me" and effectively segregate ourselves from everything!. I think that "we are all going to die one day" is just another idea!. If we really inquired into what the thing we call death is, then perhaps we would see things differently!? I don't know!. Maybe I need a hobby! ;)Www@QuestionHome@Com easy, we cant!. its not like you can easily fly forward in time and stop us from dying!. if we keep poulouting theres a BIG! chance we will die sooner, dont poulote, dont die!.!.!.!.!.well you would but not for a wee while =D starredWww@QuestionHome@Com Just because life is finite doesn't make it meaningless!. If anything,it adds value to each day!. If we were all going to live forever,we would probably all be putting off important things for later,life wouldn't be so precious,Www@QuestionHome@Com Because that's what we are ment to do!. Everything has it's place (we are forbidden to understand it or we are too shallow) and things somehow continue on regardless!. Bad days are always followed by good days!. And visa versa!. Every little thing you do or don't do counts!. Even the simple thing as your birth has a perpose all of it's own!. And when you die that too has it's own perpose!. I don't see why you feel the need to question mother nature!. She has never lied to us!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Try doing nothing for somedays,,just imagine what it would be if it was the same with every one on the earth!. And you would get your answer!. or its just this simple---- We know that we are going to die someday so let us do something by which we could leave our impression on the earth and also make life better and easy for are future generations!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The interest is an inspirationWww@QuestionHome@Com I don't know!.Www@QuestionHome@Com your question: If there is an end, why have a start!? The answer: To love, enjoy, take part in everything that comes in between the start and end, It's the only time we have, It's not very long but we have emotions and passions good and bad to drive us through it all!Www@QuestionHome@Com we must not count how many days we are going to live but rather we must count that how many days we lived and never died!.Www@QuestionHome@Com do you want to die without doing any fight or being in a battle!?Www@QuestionHome@Com ok, can you spend your life doing exactly nothing!?!? if yes, then dont bother doing anything!.!. been trying to do nothing, but it doesnt lasts long, so i do do something, now that i am here!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com We bother doing things because we should want to enjoy the time we have here on earth!. If you do nothing, you will be unhappy, poor, etc!. Why not enjoy life as much as you can and do things so that when you die, you will have lived!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Life is precious and death is not!. Even the religious leaders who claim that after death, righteous people will get their reward, are in no hurry to get there!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Assuming Creation is not a theory, we are safe to say that eternity is in our psyche and does not depend on our belief!.!.!.it is because it just is!. If that is the case, the understanding that we are more than the body is innate and though it can be denied it can never be obliterated!. Perhaps we bother partly for physical well-being but strife to do the right thing for eternities sake!.Www@QuestionHome@Com That's just the way you view it!. You can turn the question around and say!.!.!. If life is the only thing we're ever going to do, we might aswell live it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Depends if you believe death is the end I suppose!. And also life is there to be lived!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Because it is the process of dying that gives life it's meaning!Www@QuestionHome@Com true!. it's just that most people refuse to really, truly internalize that they will die!.!.!. people think that, by doing something, they can understand something, and this understanding will bring them fulfillment, an option rather than birth, pointless action, deathWww@QuestionHome@Com Yes, we all will drop the body, but then go forward with the growth we have gained in this life!.Www@QuestionHome@Com For some or other day we will die why these ego and jealousy For some or other day we will die Why to feel this sorrow burning inside For some or other day we will die Why this angry on our loved ones For some or other day we will die why these disappointments make you insane For some or other day we will die Why to feel insecure by crying For some or other day we will die Lets hope for the best and leave the rest For some or other day we will die Lets live happily and drown our problemsWww@QuestionHome@Com sit and do nothing for an hour and you will know why!. it include not thinking or sleeping!. this is not a joke!. its call meditation!. if it don't work, try it everydayWww@QuestionHome@Com so before we die we can say we accomplished something worthwhile!. ? ? ?Www@QuestionHome@Com |