How is eternal bliss meaningful? How is it any more meaningful than trippin' on heroin? The only purpose of being happy is to survive another day, to continue your lineage. If that's true then what's the purpose of being happy when you're already dead and unable to procreate? Why is there meaning in ecstacy? Our emotions deceive us.
Please answer my questions, and don't just answer one of your own.
2006-09-26 10:24:25 · 12 answers · asked by Xo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The prospect of eternal bliss gives us peace of mind in the here and now. Is that a good thing or not? If one has peace of mind, what's the incentive for helping others and for protecting our environment and the critters God has given us to protect? IMHO, let the afterlife take care of itself and get on with living the Life God has given us and doing the things He expects of us.
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2006-09-26 10:36:03 · answer #1 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's better than the alternative. I think any earthly defination we have of eternal bliss and ecstacy can not even scratch what that means divinely. What is with procreation equaling happiness? I don't get it.
2006-09-26 10:28:46 · answer #2 · answered by irisheyes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in simple terms like a game of Othello or a chess game, there are gamers, the chess products and the observers of the sport. Who savour the sport maximum ? The participant on opposite area ? The chess products being moved by skill of the participant or the observers watching the trial and tribulation of the sport ?
2016-12-12 15:41:44 · answer #3 · answered by zabel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently you don't want an answer because you just deleted the ones who posted including myself. So, what more can we do? We pointed out the fault of your argument, yet you do not care to amend it to make you questions more meaningful and clear. So, what are we to do if you do not wish to dialogue and only take in what is only according to your conditions?
May the Lord bless and keep you. May He let the light of His face shine upon you.
God's and your beast of burden
Fr.john
2006-09-26 10:28:43 · answer #4 · answered by som 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's just the old stick and carrot routine used to move a stubborn mule.
"eternal bliss in heaven" = the carrot
"eternal teeth gnashing agony" = the stick
if a mule is stubborn offer him the carrot as an enticement to pull your cart. if offering the carrot doesn't induce co operation and the mule still refuses to pull your cart beat him with the stick.
2006-09-26 10:42:46 · answer #5 · answered by nebtet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your concept of bliss is erroneous. It is the awakening of self as creator and the observation that your thoughts are in fact made manifest to become your experience. It occurs here, and there is lots of information available as to how the awakening is invited. I recommend yoga.
gw
2006-09-26 10:30:34 · answer #6 · answered by horizonwind7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, the point of "heaven" (i.e. nearness to God) is not to be happy but to love and serve God - our creator and the purpose of our existance. By loving and serving God, in this world and the next, we infinitely grow spiritually and achieve the purpose of our creation. It is achieving these two things that leads to happiness - happiness is not the goal but the result of constantly growing closer to God and serving Him by making the universe better.
2006-09-26 10:31:58 · answer #7 · answered by LivingDownSouth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think after all the suffering we do on earth, that Christ is welcoming us into the gates of heaven for eternal peace and rest and beauty. I know I want that!
2006-09-26 10:27:31 · answer #8 · answered by Elisabeth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happiness demands a complete virtue and a complete life. For there are all sorts of changes and chances in life,and it is possible that most properous of men will, in his old age, fall into extreme calamities as is told of Priam in the heroic legends. But if a person has experienced such chances, and has died miserable death, nobody calls him happy.
Is it the case then that nodoby in the world may be called happy as long as he/she is live? Must we adopt Solon's rule of looking to the end? And If we must follow Solon, can it be said that a man is really happy after his death?Surely such a view is wholly absurd, especially for us who define happiness as a species of activity. But if we do not speak of one who is dead as happy, and if Solon's meaning is not this but rather that it is only when man is dead that it is safe to call fortunate as being exempt at last from evils and calamities, this again is a view which is open to some objection. For it seems that one who is dead is capable of being affected both good and by evil in the same way as one who is living but unconscious, e.g. by honors or dishonors and by tge successes or reverses of his children and his descendants generally. But here again a diffuculty occurs. For if a person has livied a fortunate death, it is possible that he ma experience many vicissitudes of fortune in the persons of his descendants. Some of them may be good and may enjoy such a life as they deserve; others may be bad and may have a bad life.
Therefore, we may safely then define a happy man/woman as one whose activity accords with perfect virtue and who is adequately furnished with external goods, not for a casual period of time but for a complete or perfect lifetime. But perhaps we ought to add, that he/she will alsways live so, and will die as sh/she lives; for it is not given us to foresee future, but we take happiness to be an end, and to be altogether perfect and complete, and, this being so, we shall call people fortunate during their lifetime, if they possess and will possess these characteristics, but fortunate only as far as a man or woman may be fortunate
2006-09-26 10:27:15 · answer #9 · answered by Xae 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eternal bliss is a concept that is misinterpreted by many as a reward, when the reality is that those in the presence of God experience joy and peace because they are in communion with God and there is no evil in heaven.
Those who seek for "happiness" through drugs are actually seeking for the "joy" that naturally comes from being physically restored to God. They are seeking for their purpose; and for something that gives "meaning" to their existence.
What is The Meaning of Life?
The Meaning of Life is the answer to THIS question:
"God, what is Your purpose of Existence?"
For God's purpose of Existence itself defines the purpose of all that exists.
I asked God that question...
God answered, "My purpose of Existence is To give life. Since you are made in My image after My likeness, then YOUR purpose of existence is to give life."
Everything that exists is an expression of God's thinking; thus, everything reflects God's thinking.
God gives life by His unique existence, and receives life when He gives life. All of existence gives life by its unique existence to that which receives life from its unique existence. This is Nature - the union of all living (eternal) things.
You are here to give life by your unique existence to that which receives life from your unique existence. So do what you love that nourishes those who love what you love.
Thus, "The Meaning of Life" is to give life.
This is your purpose.
To give life
2006-09-26 10:37:31 · answer #10 · answered by Q 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋