are a lot of things in the universe a mystery so that we only worry about our purpose instead of focusing on the beyond? obviously we think about it but most of the time we really dont
2006-12-06 16:53:52 · 20 answers · asked by Red Eye 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
TRUE we usually only think about what we are going to do in life and not what is beyond when we go.
2006-12-06 16:55:33 · answer #1 · answered by knowssignlanguage 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm in the ' freethinkers ' club so I'll answer that I personally don't only worry about our purpose instead of focusing on the beyond. I live in the now and that now is this moment in my life that is connected with all others and energy matter which is also the 'beyond'. I am one with the now (the current purpose) while also being one with the 'beyond'. Quantum physics of sorts.
2006-12-07 00:59:36 · answer #2 · answered by onelight 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What beyond is there or what future is there for a person who does not believe there is a God who creates everything and will give a reward to those who trust and obey Him?
Once there was a woman whose alcoholic husband left him with his three children who are still small. They have been abused for years but endured and tolerated it patiently.
But when her husband who treated them badly and never allowed them to go to church. She became very broken hearted and saw that the future was very bleak. So she decided to end it all so that it can stop their suffering at once. One morning while the three children were still asleep, she closed all her doors and windows except her bedroom door and kitchen door, and opened her gas tap widely and waited for death.
But right at that moment next door, her neighbour who was a Christian was taking a shower and was singing the song: "Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows fall.... His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me....."
That song suddenly reminded her of her chidhood days when she used to be taken to Sunday School by her mother. Just at that moment she heard a voice in her ears as if saying that she did not have the right to snuff the lives out of her three kids without giving them a chance to try out themselves. So she quickly ran to the kitchen and closed the gas tap again, and rush to open the windows and doors of her house.
To cut the story short, years later after struggling very hard to feed them caring for her neighbors' laudnry need, to send her kids through school. She started attending church again with her children. The three children grew up and have families of their own, and they in turn supported their mother and give her a happy old age. Two of the kids became successful doctors, and the other one a lawyer.
One day she heard an atheist holding a lecture in a hall near her house. She attended the meeting out of curiosity. When the speaker finished his talk and ask the audience if anybody has any question about her presentation, the elderly woman slowly walk forward and related her life story, and concluded it with a question to the atheist: Do you want me to return to my life fifty years ago when I was an unbeliever, hopeless, penniless and at the brink of committing suicide to the entire family? The atheist could not reply to that challenge and she was given a unanimous applaud by the whole audience.
2006-12-07 01:20:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that focusing on the beyond is what makes us human... if we only think about our purpose, then we are just like animals. We shouldn't neglect our purpose, but we also can't neglect our nature to discover more and more.
Bear in mind that most great advancements for humanity were made by men and women who strove to understand greater truths than we can discover in everyday life.
2006-12-07 00:57:36 · answer #4 · answered by Philip 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to dwell obsessively about "the beyond". Then I reached 5th grade, realized there was no god (or God), and stopped worrying about it. I realize there is plenty out there that I have no comprehension of, but I am 100% sure that I don't need to waste a single minute worrying about what I don't know.
2006-12-07 01:00:45 · answer #5 · answered by truth be told 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I try not to worry about such things. I have so much on my plate that I will overwhelmed. However, when things are less stressful I try to strike up conversations about mysterious things. I'm even taking a philosophy course next semester called, "Reasoning About Weird Things"
2006-12-07 00:56:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a viewpoint I've never considered, but it does fit into my personal philosophy, so I'm gonna say . . . yeah!
I firmly believe that if we focused inward more, there'd be a lot more love and responsibility practiced. But we always look elsewhere, as far from the inward as we can to distract us from what we don't like about ourselves.
Hmmmm. I really like this, my agnostic friend.
2006-12-07 00:56:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people do not think deeply about anything. They are too caught up in their day to day life to even think about what they are having for dinner tonight. Sometimes it is the dailiness of life that is our salvation from madness. Too much thinking can be a dangerous and sometimes depressing thing.
2006-12-07 00:59:17 · answer #8 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you call that freethinking? Most of thethings in the universe are mysteries only because we haven't figured out how to reach them yet.
2006-12-07 00:55:22 · answer #9 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those who spend time thinking about their purpose ignore that their purpose is to help God's children as they would help God herself.
By their WORKS you will know them.
Some snivel, some bicker, some work.
Oh yeah, and some play as those who engage in the play of scientific discovery.
2006-12-07 00:58:31 · answer #10 · answered by valcus43 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋