Life
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I have long since wondered and never come to a conclusion. Where do we come from? Adam and Eve? Particles from the cosmos? Is there even meaning to our lives? What if it's all a lie? A conspiracy? A joke?
Actually, I think it's really scary to think about such stuff. It makes you question life, the meaning of it, religion etc. Although it might sound dead depressing, if you ever sat down and thought about it, you'd realise that there is some kind of fraud in all this.
Maybe it's constructed reality. We create the meaning in our lives, we go around explaining the inexplicable, making ourselves great, mighty and important. If we take an atheist stance to it, there'd be no God, no faith to provide the fuel to live on. Are we then living life aimlessly, without promise for a better tomorrow?
For all we know, we're in a little glass tank and a superior being is looking down on us, laughing at us as we proudly imagine we're the most intelligent beings.
There are so many stands to take on this. Sure, the fundamentalist Christians will all slam me, as this IS a very controversial topic. But if you are sit back and think about it, use intellectual rigour to test your faith, the result could be intriguing.
This is of no offence to anyone. I just want to hear what others have to say.
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hmmm what a question, The purpose of life, the unversal and cosmic question of the century. My maybe I just give my humble thoughts on it, since I did give it some thought recently actually.
Life? The purpose of it? Before we ask ourself such questions, it would be good to reflect on what mankind has evolve to and become over the eons. Ok that's a bit far, but let just look at a typically life cycle. You are created inside the womb.(let's take out test tudes babies for now) You spent 9 months there, asorbing nutrients from your host(Your mother). After that, your first cry is heard in the world. You again start to grow, and learn in the process, as you gain knowledge, and experience life, you form thoughts, theories are made to become the philosophy of your life, you start to classified other lifeforms into your own little catorgaries. You start to learn about survival, morals, values. These form the foundation of your character. As you grow into adulthood, you learn about others, the understanding of oter people, might cause changes to your thoughts and then again your classification of people, and then of course your character, simply put you evolve. You might get married you might not, let's assume you do, then you learn about truly loving another, you learn to care, to tolerate, about respondsibility, and of course, about carrying on your lifeline. Let's say you have a child, and he will inturn go through the same process while you grow old, learn more, evolve more then you die.
Ok, now, wondered how many times I used the word learn & evolve in the paragraph? Life is about purpose, not without, else, I might just as well, end my life the moment I enter the world, for what would I want to go through it for no value at all?!? the purpose in life is unique, for some it might be major things like bring across world peace and harmony, and to some, smaller like building your family and to contribute your small part to the world in terms of economy, and such. I prefer to look at the universe in a rather abstract term, The universe as a whole consist of a lot of smaller universes, Life. Each life itself is a smaller universe, with their own part in their lifespan to contribute to the bigger universe out there. Does the universe exsist because of us? Or do we exsist because of the universe? Let's put it that we compliment each other. Without life ,the universe is but a empty shell, but without it, life is of no meaning for there is nothing to contribute to.
Let's now break things up even further. Science has proven that each of us is made up of cells, and cells like all is just life, an atom you may compare it to. Cells the microscopic unit of living matter, is the basis of all life, it's mysterious workings make us what we are, the communication between each is incomprehensible and each of thier purpose unique. Their millions make up one life, and thus the reason of our exsistences, thier contributions to our life is definitely significant but unfound. If we are to compare each of us to a cell, and the universe as a life, then does it expalin the formation of our dependability on each other? It is just a hypothesis, but it's something I thought would explain the formation and purpose of life in this universe.
Well, just a small part of my views on life. Will post more if anyone like to hear. -
Life : Living in Fear Everyday
Life : Living in Faith Everytime
Life : Living in Fantasy Ever
Have a good day
yours sincerely,
Prodigal
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"I wish that I could have the love of a woman who could come to my life, lift me from sorrow, depression and loneliness, and push me to higher heights. However, love is not about finding someone to relieve you, but love is about you devoting your heart and soul to love that someone, even if you know that someone do not love you the way you do."
- Prodigal -
Life.... life iz life... errrrr ...well .... life... iz all about life ....donno leh.
Why so tough wit the question????
Life iz ... a bitch!!!!
Yup iz a bitch ... that iz the answer.
Coming from me that iz ..... stoopidcow lor.
Could it be..... Death???? -
haha, argument between a evolutionist and a creationist in poem form. Found it on USENET years ago, might be relevant. The different parts are marked. The indented parts are the original post.
| Please explain to a fool such as I
| If while we are living we're destined to die
| And after we die we'll be living no more
| Then what, pray tell was the in-between for?
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| Why did we come to exist on this earth
| If death is the only answer to birth?
| In the words of the bard, if we're destined to fall
| Doesn't death make a mockery of us all?
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| What's the POINT? I must ask you
| What's the point to this "life"
| What's the point in existing
| If we cannot survive?
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| If I'm destined to die
| then *poof* disappear
| Then "life" has no meaning
| So why are we here?
Life itself is the meaning of life
It's not about your joy or strife
Nature doesn't care about your name or face
You're a replaceable part of the human race.
Our biological purpose: survive and mate
If one person dies, the loss isn't great
But this isn't what you want to hear
You want to feel special, unique and dear.
This feeling, too, is a natural desire
You're more likely to fight or run from a fire
To save your own life, if you feel unique
It's just a natural survival technique.
You want PERSONAL purpose, am I right?
Guess what, you have none! What a delight!
Instead of a common fixed religious destiny
You can define your own personal journey!
| But the Christian says
| life really has no ending
| and that death is really
| just another beginning.
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| yes, they claim that after we die
| There is more
| And an answer to What we are
| livening here for.
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| I would like to believe that the latter is true
| And the science of regeneration's not new
| so our "soul energy" that we had while alive
| becomes free to expand and continue to thrive.
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| In it's new state the soul then would be free of time
| and the laws of it's last state no longer would rime
| then steps in the creator, and measures it's growth
| divides good from evil, then throws away both
What is a "soul"? Where is it located?
What is it made of? Is it automated,
or can you control it? How was it discovered?
Has these questions ever been considered?
How can a thing be free of time, or free
of the laws of reality?
What's wrong with time or the laws you named?
Why escape them, are you depressed or ashamed?
| and asks it one question to which it can't lie
| did I buy you with my life, when I came down and died.
| If the soul knows the truth, and says "Yes, It's true"
| Then the soul gets to enter into some place so new
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| If the soul says "No way, I don't know what you mean"
| Then the soul goes back down To kick and to scream
| And maybe this hell, that we speak of so much
| Is to, quite simply, live without God's caring touch
You said the soul would be free of time,
yet time is implicit in your rhyme.
FIRST the question, THEN the answer to which it can't lie
NEXT comes the judgement by God in the sky.
You said the soul would be free of those laws
Yet those laws are implicit above, like cause
and effect, places where a free soul can't go.
The idea is cute, but not parsing, amigo.
| Maybe hell is just not being able to be
| With a God that offers Eternity.
| Maybe here is where we must go, if we fail
| Maybe life is just a phase into hell.
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| If that's so then I'm reaching for far grander things
| I, for one, want to know ALL of Gods mysteries
| Life's okay, but I'll tell you, as if you might care
| It's okay, but I really wouldn't want to live here.
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| Not forever, at least, since it seems to involve
| allot of sorrow, and not very much love
| If heaven is what the bible says it is
| Well I'll see ya'll later, cause I'm all for this
If, when you were young, your father said:
"If you wash my car, I'll pay you for it"
Would you do it? You might, for money or love
It would be your choice, and not so tough.
But if daddy added: "If you don't wash the car,
I'll catch you and beat you with a crowbar"
Would you call it love? Would you think it fair?
Would you still wash his car, and do it with care?
Why does evil exist? It's my "free will" you say?
I have free will, yet I can't read minds, aye?
I can't breathe underwater, or lift a 10 ton anvil
So why won't I have free will if I can't do evil?
God made evil, or won't/can't remove it
Therefore I would like to posit,
That god is evil, or impotent, or
he doesn't exist, which is what I vote for.
| These are just speculations, not true but not false
| but if you think, either way, they must give you pause
| yes they must make you think, "what if this is true"
| what you do with this thought, I leave up to you.
"What if this is true" is called Pascal's wager
It's nonsense, and if you use it you are in danger
of being laughed at, or insulted, as I will now do
Hahaha, you stupid bloody idiot and **** you. -
Life??
Whenever i'm down, 2 words will flashed across my mind.
"Life Suckz" -
Can anyone tell me with a straight face there is meaning in life?
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Go find an old man/woman, as old as possible, ask her what's life, perhaps you will get a better answer. We are all too young to give you a good answer.
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"Life is about making choices. How good is your life depends on how well you make your choices" --- Belittled. -
To live n not to regret
To fight n never to forsake
To Love n to be love
To be yourself
To know what u really want
And thats life....
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Hmmm... Raelyn, you like to use 'constructed reality' huh?
Well, as long as human beings exist, Faith will exist. It is something that drove Humanity over thousands of years. It made extraordinary feats possible, like the building of monumental cathedrals, the stoic enduring of the Jews, etc. It is a hope of sorts and life is inexplicably intertwined with hope.
What is life? It is what you make of it! Who's there to say that you are wrong? Start making your own view, and sometimes, it can be as delightfully simple and wonderful as you think... `
"Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you will get." -
Don't ask y we r here, ask what we can do with our life.......
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i feel perturbed by the thought that we were an accident. though that is what i am inclined to believe.
i often wonder, what if everything was just a blank. as in not just a dead planet earth, but not even the existence of universe/space. then what? it is difficult to quantify what replaces 'space' or visualise it in terms of a real image/colour say - would everything be just white? black? or even psychedelic... hmmm yummy.
meaning/origin of life in this sense is especially unnerving for me.
but i agree when bluerf says that life is what you make of it. really this obsession with the pursuit of the 'meaning' of life is what causes the dilemna in the first place.
i think in my lower days i'd fuss over the point of anything and everything, and in higher days i'd be content with making my day out to be whatever i please. yes but reality soon pulls me back down to books and study and worries about a career, family etc. society does not posess the 'meaning' that we crave and has simply evolved to be what it is today.
but as long as you dare to make it whatever you want then THAT would hold meaning enough for you. i don't think there is any good reason for us to be here. i could say i'd much prefer the psychedelic canvas in place of the sun or moon or space dust or chillicrab.
ah but then again.. chillicrab... yum yum.
as long as you don't fear your future i think, then you have no need to find the meaning of life. yet our survival instincts means we are predisposed to worry. if you do not fear death then you don't need a meaning for life.
argh i have answered nobody's question but i have simpy made myself hungry dammit. -
I have a story here which might be useful to those who wants to know the purpose of life.
Once upon a time the great King of Heaven decides to send his beloved son on a sacred mission to earth to find and bring back the "Pearl that resides in the sea"
Anxious to take on this sacred mission and prove his loyalty, the prince leaves his father's kingdom with great determination. The moment he arrives in this world, however - that is, the moment he is born - he forgets both his mission and his royal origins. Draw to the world's attractions, the hero becomes accustomed to this alien land and finally comes to believe it is the only home he has ever known.
Time passes. The prince marries, has children, and indulges in the age-old labors and pleasures of human existence, all the while remaining in a state of spiritual forgetfulness.
Decades go by. Then in his fortieth year, a milestone age for spiritual awakening, the King of Heaven sends his son a message: remember, seek, struggle, accomplish and return. But the prince pays no attention. He is too immersed in life.
So the King sends the message again, this time in a different form. Again it is ignored.
Messsage after message is sent down over a period of years. Graudlly the prince begins to comprehend the meaning of these heavenly dispatches and to recognize their urgency. In the end, after much hesitation and many slips and falls, he answers his father's call, finds the Pearl of Great Price-his spiritual nature- and returns home from exile.
Story ends here. What I wanna say is that everyone of us is the prince. We embarked a journey into life to find our Golden Self and then return to the Promised Land.
We questioned our existence when the material world doesn't offer permanent satisfaction anymore. We then start to search for other things that will gives us satisfaction.
Start searching your inner self. Read up books on religion and philosophy. I'm sure this will fill your emptiness that you are filling inside.
I hope that helps. I'm not good in explaining things, I'm sorry about that. By the way, I'm not a Christian.