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http://www.jesussaves.cc/
100% agreed. Life is about bringing glory to the Creator of the universe who wants to have a personal relationship with you. His passion is His glory but He wants you to be able to experience that glory. A second main purpose of life would be helping others to understand the same.
When religion dies, your relationship with God begins.
or....
The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world could actually come to an end. The plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge having in key decisions made by religious people. By irrationalists, by those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken. George Bush prayed a lot about Iraq, but he didn't learn a lot about it. Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction. Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do. Most people would think it's wonderful when someone says, "I'm willing, Lord! I'll do whatever you want me to do!" Except that since there are no gods actually talking to us, that void is filled in by people with their own corruptions and limitations and agendas. And anyone who tells you they know, they just know what happens when you die, I promise you, you don't. How can I be so sure? Because I don't know, and you do not possess mental powers that I do not. The only appropriate attitude for man to have about the big questions is not the arrogant certitude that is the hallmark of religion, but doubt. Doubt is humble, and that's what man needs to be, considering that human history is just a litany of getting shit dead wrong. This is why rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you comes at a horrible price. If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife, for the true devils of extremism that draw their legitimacy from the billions of their fellow travelers. If the world does come to an end here, or wherever, or if it limps into the future, decimated by the effects of religion-inspired nuclear terrorism, let's remember what the real problem was. We learned how to precipitate mass death before we got past the neurological disorder of wishing for it. That's it. Grow up or die - Bill Maher
but yes, as someone has said before...."42"
I am not taking into account the three lines of your message, nor your handle.
Just the subject.
What is the meaning of life?
The meaning of life, is to understand.
We are here to understand as much as we can.
This process is both physically and mentally tiring. So we need to rest and relax to pursue it. It helps to do it with others too.
The meaning of Life is that We are to understand as much as we can.
That's my hunch.
"Fortunately" we have come to live lives of great leisure and are in a constant struggle to improve our standard of living. "Meaning" has been fabricated. The fancy rhetoric gribble leaders and politicians regurgitate day after day has guided us down a path of insignificant purpose. They manufacture issues and conflict to distract us from the true injustices that are rampant in our world today. I can assure you that deciding whether or not people of the same sex can get married is not our purpose. Politics is a source of entertainment created to divert attention, and to create an illusion that everybody has a say.
The meaning of life is survival. So in our convoluted world there is no meaning, just a sinful desire for money and power.
The meaning of life is SEX.
Did you really quote Bill Maher? LOL. A b-list comedian that wants SO BADLY to be John Stewart, but knows deep down that he isn't funny, intelligent or good-looking enough to ever come close.
So he is just bitter.
What's wrong with being selfish? Every other species on the planet is selfish and that's considered instinctive and completely natural. Why is selfishness in man a flaw?
I think therefore I ran
42 is it.
But what is the question....
Selflessness might be conceived as the highest form of selfishness. Should you devote complete love to all others and neglect your own needs, you will die, and you won't be able to help anyone anymore. However, if you had payed some attention to yourself, you would have been able to continue to help others. Moderation is domination...but only be moderate in moderation; kno wha i sayin?
"The Meaning of Life"....
"To live in the NOW, enjoy and accomplish as much as you can while coherent, then once you 'expire', no need to worry--you never existed BEFORE you were born nor will you AFTERWARDS..."unless you can show proof...
Really, think about that statement.
You really mean, "What should I do?"
Welcome to the living hell of endless choice!
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Read "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl, an Auschwitz survivor and clinical psychiatrist.
You may not agree, but he argues purposefully, and without shallowness-- that meaning is there for you to discover.
Dude if you ever want insight into a deep understanding of how your mind interprets life (because that is what you are asking because life can mean a different thing for everyone)
TAKE ACID, GO INTO THE WOODS, BE HAPPY, THINK, COME HOME, THINK, LEARN.....the next day everything in your life will make sense. you might change the way you live your life completely or everything will just make sense. regardless, acid is the answer to the meaning of life.
I believe that Jesus came to tear down the curtain of religion because it doesn't mean anything to Him. He wants His relationship with you and that is truly His passion. In that relationship, you discover the glory of God.
"Men, if you can find meaning in something as absurd as running, then maybe you can find meaning in that other absurd pursuit,.....life." -Bill Bowerman, however, I don't know the quote exactly off the top of my head.
Christmas eve is the perfect time to explain the meaning of life...
#1) We lived with our Father in Heaven before coming to this Earth.
#2) He had this earth created for us, his children.
#3) We came here to first receive a body and second to be tried to see if we could "choose the right".
#4) He sent a Savior, even Jesus Christ, to die for our sins so we could be cleansed if we accept him and repent.
#5) We are here to live the 2 great commandments, Love God and Love thy Neighbor.
#6) We will die someday but, thanks to Jesus, we too will resurect, our bodies will re-join our spirits to be united in a perfect union forever.
#6) If we do these things well, when we die, we can return to live with our Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ. Plus, if we really do things right, we can be with our families and friends forever in a perfect state of happiness. Jesus will judge each of us.
#7) If we don't do things so well here on earth our Father in Heaven has a place prepared for us where we will not be with our families and friends.
Merry Christmas to all and may you all come to understand the "meaning of life" and, most importantly, understand that EVERY action does count and that someone is watching from above. Be careful to "live and let live", it's a very slippery slope...
Peace
Live and let live, says the guy who just played the hell card. Sheesh.
My two cents: nobody really has a very good grasp on why we or the universe are here. Anybody who says they do is probably not very smart or trying to manipulate you. In the face of this massive uncertainty, the only logical course of action is to live a life that makes you happy (because it might be all you get), and to spend some time trying to add to what humanity has figured out so far. We're doing pretty well, all things considered.