Are the bodies we are using really ours?

Question

so i was thinking about life and death. we will just die one day and give everything back

should we worry too much about materialistic things even though we lose them all in the end? I mean not too much but just right.

any thoughts?

i wanted to put in philosophy section but can't find :O

Answer 1

Mine's on loan from rent-a-corpse while my real body is at the cleaners

Answer 2

if you just said that, how can you explain yourself as you and use a possessive noun?

you are just part of an enigma designed to defy the exact element of what you think you have: consciousness.

Answer 3

Arts & Humanities > Philosophy  

Answer 4

Wrong.

Answer 5

as long as were alive and using them......think of it as leased........

Answer 6

Yes they are ours, we command them (most of the time). As for materialistic things, the point of them is to make our time alive as satisfying as we can. To be honest, this sounds like one of those "What's the point of life really?" questions. And those annoy.

Answer 7

No.  We are given stewardship, but not ownership, of our bodies.  Humans will have to account to God for how His bodies were used.  We should be like the Virgin Mary and dress purely.

God bless!

Fred

Answer 8

The human life span let's say on average is 80 years. That gives you plenty of time to enjoy your material wealth. Who cares?

Answer 9

What?  I'm just renting this?  Then I want a return it and get another one!

Answer 10

We are no more than a collection of cells with synapses that fire away at 'thinking' we have an ego that thinks it exists.

In the final analysis we are a puff of stardust.

philosophy section = http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/;_ylt=AhEPC...

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Answer 11

Till death do you part.

Answer 12

Well, ultimately we are atoms with ego.  

Our bodies are the only things we do truly own.  But in the end, like you said, we return to the earth.  As we eat food, we are food.  

In my opinion, it is pointless to put much value into material things like money or gadgets.  I have that opinion because those things are not the things I choose to value in my life.  I value love, knowledge and wisdom above all else.  These are the things that make me happy.  

Answer 13

Well, mines on an extended loan, and I can't return it because if the bank sees what I've done to the body they'll sue.

Always buy the lifetime warranty.

A realistic answer; Yep, they are ours, and sometimes we take as much as we can and die with it, specially the high up people (Nobles, Pharaohs, Viking warlords) But for us simple folk we give it away as inheritance.

Things, as long as they're good things, help stabilize future generations, and to that point we should care.