Why should we be concerned about things in life when the end of earth is certain?

Question

In due time, the Earth will be scorched and swallowed up by the Sun. Why should humans be concerned about things when none of it will really matter in due time?

Answer 1

You can live in a shell thinking any day might be your last. But life goes on. If the end happens in your lifetime, you lose. But, if it doesn't with your attitude, it might as well. Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we may die.  

Answer 2

Because you only get one life, you either live it to the fullest until your dead, or you worry about things that don't matter. Of course the world will end, but the world ending in your life is the same thing as your life ending in the world.  

Answer 3

An assumption, not a scientific fact. Or a spiritual reality.

If the only view of life is a material one it would be a helpless existence for sure.

If one would like to expand their mind it maybe helpful to consider a spiritual understanding as with materialism reduces man to a soulless automaton and constitutes him merely an arithmetical symbol finding a helpless place in the mathematical formula of an unromantic and mechanistic universe. But whence comes all this vast universe of mathematics without a Master Mathematician? Science may expatiate on the conservation of matter, but religion validates the conservation of men's souls--it concerns their experience with spiritual realities and eternal values.

Answer 4

be concerned with your personal well being and your relationship(s)

or extensions in your life.

no need be concerned with earth in a billion years

alfred e. newman said "what me worry?"

the serenity prayer~

grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change

give me the courage to change what i can

and allow me the wisdom to know the difference.

do not worry~

it does not serve your well being..

Answer 5

no worries mate.we will all get some marsh mellows

Answer 6

Interesting question. I'm not the kind of person who likes to answer a question with another question but I feel it's only fitting to ask this: If that is so, then what would be the point of waking up at all when everything and everyone in Earth will be scorched and swallowed up by the Sun .. in due time?

One may argue using religious or spiritual beliefs but the way I look at it, one still has a purpose to complete while he / she still has breath to breathe. We might as well make the best of it while we still have that privilege to breathe so when the end of our days finally arrive, we can say that we lived a full and happy life with no regrets.

What's the point? Well, that's whatever you decide it to be.

Answer 7

Well you still have to eat, drink, s**+..., fu.. and sleep till then, that's why.

Answer 8

A nihilistic view of life shouldn't get you down as long as you can fulfill Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Shame about future generations though.

Answer 9

Think of it like a house, you know your gonna get evicted (say in about 2 months time) so you don't clean the house or nothing. The house would be a mess and you couldn't find anything so you would be living in something like a storage room packed with stuff. You would rather make the house at least a little clean so you could walk around and find stuff and not run out of supplies. Its like the Earth

Answer 10

who cares about the end of time.  I dont even care what happens in the next hour.

Answer 11

Who says we should be concerned?

We can only enjoy things right now...

... And if we really enjoy, we love them...

... And if we love, we feel concerned!

Answer 12

Because it will not happen in your lifetime, nor your children's lifetime, nor their children's descendants. So why don't take your life and help those in need, and not worry about things you can not control or change. The future, no one really knows, the past can not be changed, and the present..that's why they call it "a present.

Answer 13

Because it all matters in their time.  No one wants a S****y life.

Answer 14

Well its a bit far away...4 to 10 billion years

Answer 15

Things do matter right now. Things matter everyday and to everyone.

It sounds as though you are very pessimistic at the moment.

We should be concerned about things in life even though death is imminent because death IS imminent and you can make change, and make things happen NOW when they DO matter.

There is no saying when the world will end. There is no real saying how either. But forget the world because you or I, or anyone's "world" could end any day and IT WILL matter to those around us.

I understand that your standpoint may prefer 'carefree' as opposed to 'concern', but if one is not ever concerned then they are not curious and they are ignorant and awfully self centered.

By all means enjoy everything you can in life! And try not to concern yourself too much, but take these thoughts into consideration.

Answer 16

Thinking that far ahead in time totally defeats the purpose of living a life in the present, and if you're that selfless that you think that far ahead and not of yourself you should develop a hobby =). Everyone wants joy for themselves to some degree, it's impossible that you or anyone else doesn't want it because of something that's going to happen on a date so far away I can't even think of it.

Answer 17

Should we just give up and all drink poisoned kool aid?

What if it does not come in your lifetime?  Think of the life you could have had, but didn't---- because some chicken ran around squawking, "The sky is falling, the sky Is falling!"