2006-07-04 00:48:20 · 8 answers · asked by Real Love L 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Life can be classed as many things by many different people.
Conscious and thinking.
Breathing and moving.
Sensing and feeling.
Loving and hating.
A gift given to us by God.
A curse imposed upon us.
Organisms evolving and changing and continuing.
As previously mentioned - Life is whatever you want it to be.
2006-07-04 00:54:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is bittersweet for me. I have had a rough life and shed many tears... but what can you do but swallow your pride and move on.
I care about people... and do not want others to share my fate. So maybe that is my calling... I don't know. One thing I do know... life is meaningless unless there is a God. Everything would be vain... for we live a short while and then we are ashes.
2006-07-04 07:58:32 · answer #2 · answered by ddead_alive 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not ice cream. Life is a bowl of cereal - lightly sweetened, but gets soggy if you let it sit too long in milk. Ask Mikey, he'll tell you. ;D
2006-07-04 08:14:42 · answer #3 · answered by DDK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
life is what you make it
2006-07-04 07:51:14 · answer #4 · answered by OZoNE 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You ought to ask a dying person this question, and I think only such a person can give you a 'perfect' answer
2006-07-04 11:45:44 · answer #5 · answered by dark and beautiful 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
life is something given by God to live fully and lovingly, and good,
it doesnt have to be corny
Serve God and you will have a better knowlege
2006-07-04 07:54:45 · answer #6 · answered by 0110010100 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The simple answer is, "Happiness." But there are many different ideas of what happiness is. So first, we have to discover which kind of happiness is the "final goal" for human beings are u can read this story....
Once upon a time, God created a whole bunch of people and sat them down in front of a huge banquet table filled with hamburgers, pizza, and tacos. They were very hungry and tried to eat, but God had neglected to give them elbows. Every time they tried to get the food to their mouths, their hands were too far away. Eventually, they got so frustrated that the table divided into four groupsThe first group of people said, "God must be very stupid, or He is not all-powerful. Because if God were smart, He would have known that we need elbows to eat; and if He were powerful, He would have been able to make them." Depressed at the thought of being stuck with a God who could not help them, they turned to the second group of people for advice.
The second group answered, "Look around at the trees, the mountains, the oceans, the sun, and the whole universe. God must certainly be all-knowing to have thought up all of this. And he must be all-powerful to create it all. The truth must be that God is mean and selfish and filled with anger and revenge. And that is why we have to suffer." At the thought of being stuck with a horrible God, these people became very afraid, and in imitation of their "angry God," they began to turn on one another in violence.
The third group of people cried out: "Stop! You just admitted that God must be all-powerful. But what is the most positive power that exists in the world? Of course, it is love. So if God exists, He must be all-powerful. And if He is all-powerful, He must be all-loving. Therefore, because we are suffering, God must not exist." At the thought of a world without any God at all, the people around the table became very cynical. They saw that life was ugly, brutish, and short. And they sat in protest until they began to starve to death.
Before we get to the fourth group of people, it might do well to discuss the issue of human suffering. The question, "Why do we suffer?" is probably the most important question a person can ask. If we do not understand why we are suffering, we can end up getting depressed, afraid, and even give up in protest. We may blame God, and grow angry and resentful. Or we may end up deciding not to believe in Him at all.
very famous radio talk show host was once arguing that young people today complain about suffering too much. He pointed out that young people have everything: homes, cars, clothing, entertainment, education, health care, credit cards; while in his parents' and grandparents' generation, people truly had something to complain about. They suffered from poverty, hunger, war, and diseases that we don't even hear about anymore.
A young man called in to the program and objected to this argument. He said, "I have been at the bottom of life -- drugs, alcohol, depression, sexual promiscuity, suicide attempts, and God helped me back to my feet. From my viewpoint, I can tell you that young people today suffer much more than they did in your parents' and grandparents' generation. Because back then, people understood what was really important in life, and they had something to suffer and die for. Today, young people don't even know what they're living for, let alone what to die for."
Not being able to understand our suffering is the worst kind of suffering there is. It is far worse than physical pain. And, as the young man pointed out, the reason why we don't understand our suffering, is often because we don't know what we are living for in the first place.
This kind of suffering is frequently what causes people to turn to destructive, and even self-destructive acts like drugs, alcohol, sexual promiscuity, abortion, suicide, and euthanasia (physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill people).
It is nearly impossible to find a woman who wants an abortion because she likes abortion, or to find a terminally ill man who wants his doctor to be allowed to kill him because the man wants to be killed. But it is very easy to find lots of people who want abortions or physician assisted suicide because they are depressed, afraid, alone, in despair, and cannot see any good in their suffering.
It's interesting how abortion is called "pro-choice" and euthanasia is called "freedom of self-determination." And yet the vast majority of people who get abortions or who ask for euthanasia do so because, in their own words, they feel like they have "no choice."
What if we could show people what truly makes life worth living?
What if we could help one another find deeper meaning and purpose in life?
What if we could offer a way to true and lasting happiness?
If we could do this, it would be pretty clear that abortion, euthanasia, and other destructive acts are not solutions at all, but only part of the problem.
So how do we do it?
What it means to be Human
A human being is not just about what we look like or what we can do. If this is how we define human beings, we would all in big trouble, because everyone looks different, and we all have different skills and abilities. What makes us human is our "end" or "goal."
The ancient Greek philosophers noticed that all living creatures are designed to pursue a certain goal. Every species has a different goal. They called this goal "telos" which means "end." They taught us that, if you can discover what something's telos (final goal) is, then you will know what that creature is. For example, the goal of an acorn is "oak tree." It's the goal of "oak tree" which causes the acorn to grow and change the way it does. Acorns already have "oak tree" written within their nature. That's what they are, only in a very young stage. In the same way, if we can discover the "end" or "goal" of the human being, we will know what the human being is.
2006-07-04 07:56:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
life is an ice cream .....Enjoy it ....Before it melts.
2006-07-04 07:59:11 · answer #8 · answered by Kay 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋