Lunar Jesty wrote:
Sorry I took so long to get back to you here. I have a rather cynical view of things: people don't care what happens to them after they die. People like to feel as if they've made a difference, that's why teachers, social workers, etc. exist. You say it's not for the feeling, and I agree. It's for the suprise and contentment of placing a bit of you in someone else. Human beings are strange things: for some reason, they always want themselfves to stay around for a long time. From the first primitive man who hammered a rough carcature of himself on a rock wall, that's what he wanted to do. Maybe that's the meaning of life: to achive superficial immortality.
As for religion: I've been cynical here too. I've always believed the reasons people look for religion is to find something to welcome them in. Their being will welcome them in, but so will the community around you. I never really understood the quest for truth: what use is truth? Will you feel content once you recieve the truth? Or is it more of knowing how to fufil your destiny in life? Learn how to achive your superficial immortality? My philosophy here is something I'd like to change: I can't do anything except be an agnostic if I keep thinking like this.
I doubt that life is about leaving an impression on the world since, no matter what you do, you will eventually be forgotten, seeing as everyone else will die too.
There are many who turn to their religion for comfort and welcoming, but often they seek only that and nothing more meaningful. Usually such people have been brought up or conditioned to believe certain things by traditions and whatnot. Rarely do people 'seek' religion, but rather they seek the truth, and find it in religion.
The use of truth is very hard to express. Like PianoMan said, truth gives us (technological, mental, etc.) power. Though that may not mean enough to pursue it for some. Thinking about it, the only other word that comes to mind is 'purpose'. Finding the truth gives us a purpose in life – and it likely is the purpose for our short stay here on earth.
There is a degree of satisfaction that comes with finding the truth, but it doesn't perfect our lives; I personally am far from satisfied with the world around me or myself. (Sorry if I sound so snobbish, acting as if I'm all enlightened and whatnot, but I truly do think I've found the truth; though I'm only at the very surface of it and have much much farther to delve into it.) While my life is still filled with pain and discontentment, I find that I have purpose, which gives me a foundation, a rock, if you will, to stand on. Which, in its own way, is very comforting.
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