Life is here now in this moment
2006-08-24 07:44:38 · 12 answers · asked by Awareness 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you believe that -- well, then you believe something and your premise is gone.
So, I guess we need to believe something -- even if it is Food-->Good or Sex-->Good -- or even the opposite.
2006-08-24 07:47:56 · answer #1 · answered by Ranto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't. Any belief system is a way of focusing on the past and the future there by ignoring the present.
Just be a kind and compassionate person now and everything else will take care of its self.
Any God that would want you to spend so much time judging things that had already happened would be missing the point of life grandly anyway.
You are here to live your life and respond to the situations that confront you Lovingly. You can't do this if you are focused on a bunch of conflicting nonsense rules. All that is necessary is that you love your neighbor like Jesus asked us to do. The only way that you can do this is if you are firmly planted in the time called now.
Love and blessings
don
2006-08-24 14:59:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And if it is so good then we feel that there is something more to it.
Most religions acknowledge that there is something in the present moment that is so valuable that we need to say thankyou.
And if the present moment is so good then why shouldnt it continue forever?
Sin is the opposite. We focus on the selfish rewards here and now and dont care what will happen in the future.
2006-08-24 14:49:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Essentially we don't.
I guess we could just go on our daily business and it wouldn't hurt anyone as long as we were being nice to ourselves and to everyone else around us.
However, I saw an advert for a TV programme in the UK that said that our brains are actually programmed so we would believe in SOMETHING whatever that may be. Hope this helps.
2006-08-24 14:48:51 · answer #4 · answered by lotusgirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Belief is how we are, not a need. What you wrote, about life being the moment...that's what you BELIEVE.
2006-08-24 14:49:35 · answer #5 · answered by Ciera 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't need to believe in anything. It is just as easy (or hard) to lead a spiritually, emotionally and philosophically fulfilling life as an athiest as it is as a religious individual.
2006-08-24 14:53:12 · answer #6 · answered by Emily I 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes but eventually the moment will pass...as will you...belief help people to have hope that they will continue beyond the moment.
2006-08-24 14:46:38 · answer #7 · answered by Rance D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you alredy do, if a person tells you: On the other side of the border is Mexico.
i think you'll believe there is a country named Mexico.
If the person seems trustworthy and you had never been there.
2006-08-24 14:55:56 · answer #8 · answered by zorro 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To fully experience the now we should focus on this life and not be distracted by possible future lives.
2006-08-24 14:47:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a good question. I guess people thousands of years ago thought that the sunrise was so weird that something had to make it happen.
2006-08-24 14:47:09 · answer #10 · answered by Rachel the Atheist 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋