What is the meaning of human existence?
“. We will examine in detail the structure of the Summa, as a proposal for an ultimate understanding of the meaning of the existence of human persons. The first part of the Summa discusses the problematic of God and creation, in particular man’s ontic structure. It forms a great answer to the question of “man as being cast without his consent into the world”. What sort of world are we talking about? What sort of “being-cast”? How is man understood here? The world as the setting for human life appears immediately to us as a being which is rational in its essence, for the being of what we call the world is legible; the world awakes in man an understanding of being that extends right to the existence of God himself. At the beginning of the Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas analyzes the problem of our ability to know God through the study of really existing being. In his writing, he establishes human cognition in the field of the intelligibility of being, and it is the intelligibility of be
What are the doorways to understanding the human condition in the light of our understanding of the divine, revealed or acquired? Does our understanding of the divine throw any light on our understanding of our sexual being.” The challenge facing the church, says Fr. Harvey, is to move beyond merely saying to constituents, “Don’t commit sexual immorality,” but to create a vision of sexual relating. “Our sexuality in its being and expression is multifaceted and ambiguous. Anyone who goes deep enough experiences that ambiguity. It arises when you experience a powerful sexual energy in yourselves even as your body begins to show its wear and tear. It arises in the orgasmic moment when you want to give all and receive all only to know that you will never be all.” “Young people today know that ambiguity from very early in life. The Sexual Revolution somehow does not bring happiness so they look for something deeper, positively so. They either opt out of the sexual journey, substituting for
Don’t know! Don’t really care! It’s learning life’s lessons and finding meaning to my own life that is important, to me. I don’t believe we are just here by some random chance and survival of the fittest as the Evolutionists say as that doesn’t explain why we have powers of reasoning greater than other creatures! I also see no reason for evolving a brain 90% bigger than we use! If there is a reason or meaning to existence I think it will be answered when I leave this life. After all I spent years at school learning subjects without knowing why I should and seeing no reason I’d need them after I left school.
Not to be terse, But, If it had meaning you wouldn’t need to ask. It’s our uniqueness in the Solar System that gives us the right to ask. Religion aside, we may never have an answer. But, a few things are curious about our being on the single habitable planet, that we are sure of, out of all the heavens. It will take our own doing to despoil the earth. Then Our sun is perfect, sunburns aside, and will provide its benefits long after we’re gone. The closest I can come to a meaning is that the Cosmos, which is likewise unexplainable (and this is lame) this clumsy unorganized mindless collossus (the Cosmos) can actually spit out fragile beings to admire its handiwork. And, as mindless as it is, it will be around when we’re wisps of stardust and less. Yeah, that’s the meaning: Cosmos spit us out to applaud his handiwork. We have pet dogs. Cosmos has pet ‘us’.
