It's all relative.
For a romantic, to live the life to the fullest.
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It's all relative.
For a romantic, to live the life to the fullest.
It's all relative.
For a romantic, to live the life to the fullest.
For a classicist, to live a good life and make sure nothing happens.
I am very passive about purpose of life, when it comes down to it, just staying alive would be a good 'univesal' answer. If you think about it, much what we do now is to stay alive:
Why do I go to school? Because I want a job, a better education yields better job opportunities, better job opportunities yield a higher earning, a higher earning will provide for the basic survival.
Why do people get rich and get richer then? I don't think to get rich is the purpose of life, the material world ends with subsistence, in my feeble opinion, I believe that a good life(i can't give one single universal answer it is impossible) is a life of a renaissance man, and i have accumulated knowledge according to it, I studied basic arithmtics language, geography, history, but I also is as fascinated by Music as I am fascinated by physics, I think I would die a happy man if my life had been full of activity, I would die a happy man if I was not just a scholar, but an athelete. I would ide a happy man if I was not just an athlete, but a musician.
When I was in 11th grade, one of my friend asks me to sign his year book, I shocked the classroom when I wrote:" the purpose of life is to fornicate with as many partners and as often as possible" was that a serious response? Maybe. The naive me thought that the entire purpose of life can be sum up by three words:
Emulate (Learning/education)
Accumulate (Wealth/knowledge)
Copulate (biological process)
I guess I was wrong...
E.B
The purpose of life is not to be speculated on. It is known, and has been told to us. The purpose of life is to glorify God, to serve him, for that is the only way in which man can achieve true happiness. It is not through sin, nor material goods, nor through busyness that we can be happy, it is through God, and the path of the straight and narrow.
What if I don't have a religion, then is my life meaningless? should I commit suicide because my life has no meaning?
That's exactly what I said, "It's all relative" for someone who worship his god, his life is just that, but for others it's whatever he thinks he should be doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by djtru
This reminds me of one of my previous college professors, who specialized in evolutionary psychology and biology. Having proceeded far ahead of our class schedule, the class debated with her idea that everything humans do, big or small, no pun intended, we do for sex and intimacy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edmond
One student would ask: "then, why do we go to school?" Our professor would answer: "to eventually find a good job, impress others with your education, elope with the most ideal mate, and . . ."
Another student would ask: "why do I brush my teeth every morning?" The professor would answer: "to enhance your appearance, and increase your chances of attracting others."
Though I cannot help but disagree with some of her concepts, we all had a good laugh. :lol:
I agree with your professor, especially after the documentary on feminine desire that was on here in England last night. There was a Dutch sex researcher on (why are these people always Dutch?) explaining how the effect on the brain of orgasm was very very similar to that of heroine or cocaine - and the reason for that was that it was nature giving us an incentive to procreate.Quote:
Originally Posted by mono
<the effect on the brain of orgasm was very very similar to that of heroine or cocaine - and the reason for that was that it was nature giving us an incentive to procreate.>
Yet I don't see hordes of unattached women begging for a fix. Do you?
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Originally Posted by djtru
Was God and his purpose truely known to us the element of faith would be devoid of meaning and God would be another tyrant. Furthermore if the point of God is to give meaning then one could say that all religion is reduced to a comodification of God and those who follow him. Lastly, if the purpose of life was to glorify God, then we have to reach the conclusion that those who are happiest are those who glorify him the best and that all distance from God and the optimum means to glorify Him results from an inability to find purpose and meaning in life. Are all none Christians unhappy? Which is this particular branch of Christianity that results in ultimate happiness? What kind of God creates for his own glorification?
This question, that I have been also asking myself, is a little bit difficult to be answered. It really deppends of the kind of people we are. If you follow a religion, the question is already answerd by your religion. If not, life is meaningless for you. You my warship God, seek pleasur or seclude yourself in an isolated place if that is sutable for you and make a purpose for your life. For some, life is meaningless, for others it is a track leading to another one, others consider it as a weel including death and rebirth in other coditions according to the kind of person you were, and as a test for other kinds of people. It really depends on our believes and cultur. Whether you set a purpose in your life or it is set upon you, by the end you will die. Think deaply about it rather than regrating past mistakes and things that should be done. It's your life it is not mine, so it is up to you to live it the way you see fit.
But to what kind of God do you refer in the first place ? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Plechazunga
- Is it the nature (its Law) like the PC processor ?
- Is it the Gods who uses the Law of Nature who would have created us like we use the PC processor to create 3D world ?
Then we are just stuffs or slaves or sheeps. What the purpose of the sheeps for us ? Just to eat, entertain or work animal :)
- Is it the Ultimate God who created the Gods who created the Gods who created us but then is he even conscious of us since we are not ourselve conscious of each cell of our body ?
The word "God" itself implies there is only one. As to the nature of God, it would depend on who you ask.
One of the most inspiring books I have ever read is Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl. I am a Catholic and for me meaning comes from God. But I liked this book because it is based on true experiences of being in a concentration camp. Frankl is a psychatrist so he is able to annalyze his thoughts and experiences as well as his peers. He claims there are two was to find meaning in one's life which surprisingly aren't directly realated to God or a super natural high power: One is because they love someone and that love makes life worth living or they have a "project" like a novel or a talent that they feel they must complete that no one else but they can. This may sound odd but if u read the book it makes perfect sense. God fits into the love category. It talks about finding meaning in life even when u suffer. If ne one has read it let me know what u think of it.
:) Lauren :banana: <--- this is so random but thats what makes it so funny
Recently I read a book by Thomas Moore called Dark nights of the soul.It discusses about the dark sides of one's life. It also speaks about about one's problems at his lonly hour-long illness or death of a loved one. Twenty years ago Ilost my father and my girlfriend one after another.Sudden demise of a loved one (be it mother,father or friend) leaves one shattered.Suddenly the meaning of life is not known to you.You don't know where to turn?Your mind suddenly becomes blank.Something seems to pushing you deep inside a void.You start asking questions?Whatis life? What is its purpose? Thomas Moore book has a thrapeutic valve in it.
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What is self?-Consciousness is self.
i had a dream about how to get to the meaning of life faster. my friend, in my dream, told me that the meaning of finding life lies in one of the polyatomic ions squared..!!! i know what does this have to do with anything, but i think now about it and it has to do with everything. life is simple yet we make things come out to be soo complicated that we confuse ourselves and miss the POINT. so perhaps then that the meaning of life has always been and is probably right IN FRONT OF US but we just missed it in questioning IT..good luck out there for all those "searchers"..>!
_what is more important finding the MEANING OF LIFE or LIVING LIFE?_
*i think i would like to spend my life LIVING and not dwelling..."LIfe will come to YOU" (-my uncle told me this ^_^)
Life is not simple.