| Wii_R2_Hardcore said: One thing is the meaning of life and something different is the objective of life. Your answer is perfectly reasonable if the question would have been what is the objective of life. But I understand something different by its meaning. What about people with family, normal social life and enough money to enjoy a modern life going to the psychiatric because they find no meaning in their lives? How is that possible? Most of the claims of people with suicidal tendencies are that they find their life meaningless. And how come countries with such high economical standards have so many suicides? |
The meaning of life and what people want out of life aren't necessarily the same things.
People can become depressed if they aren't getting what they want out of life, so perhaps the desires of people in developed countries is different than the desires of people in third world countries. There is comfort in ignorance, so a group of people in a third world country who are struggling to get by may take a lot of comfort in their religion, while a group in a first world country is better off but they no longer find as much comfort in religion and look elsewhere for comfort.
In general, the more educated and wealthy you are the less religious you are, so that may have something to do with it. By the way, I'm not arguing for religion, I'm athiest myself.
