2006-12-09 23:02:41 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
God thanks Joanne I fancy you already.
2006-12-09 23:16:00 · update #1
If you choose life, you have the rest of your life for making more choices. If you choose death, you lose all further options.
(Edit: Joanne, your answer is great.)
2006-12-09 23:12:43 · answer #1 · answered by NaturalBornKieler 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We choose life because life has many fabulous things for us. We have choices, opportunities, possibilities and chances of sorts of things, all come with life. Here we find beginnings of all beginnings, and we can see that ends or not real ends but starts of new beginnings. However hard a living may be the enchantment of life upon us is never over. We like to have more in life, and this is what nothing else can give us. Every other choice would mean losing one thing or another. Where heart when alive likes to know more love, the mind when at the helm can look much better and much farther into life and beyond.
2006-12-10 01:46:44 · answer #2 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a tough question. I can't give you a good answer, but I can at least explain the difficulty for people who don't get it.
First of all, there is suffering. Everyone dies. Earthquakes and plagues kill indiscriminately, as do wild animals. Time itself kills. Everything--hopes, dreams, birds, the sun--dies. No matter how bad your life is or has been, it is a fact that it will get worse.
These acts of God, I can handle. Not even prayer can convince the laws of nature to change. Therefore they must be accepted, or intelligently avoided to the best of one's ability.
The second problem is evil. Man's inhumanity to man. Social constructs (including God). People can do good, but they choose not to. This, I can't handle. I can't accept that human beings are so irrational and cannot be avoided.
The problem is not to choose life. That would be easy--just go off into the wilderness and be happy. The problem is to choose life as a member of society.
2006-12-09 23:21:00 · answer #3 · answered by Sabrina H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are an immortal spirit, and will live another life after this one. You have a mind and body. So, your body dies and you get another one. Herein is the concept of reincarnation.
Fact is, life is a game. A game is built of freedoms, barriers and purposes. You can be cause over life. If we were exterior to life, instead of being involved and immersed in the living of it, it would look to us much like games look to us from our present vantage point. Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game -- interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself. When we do this, we find nothing left wanting in the panorama of life.
You may want to get a copy of Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought, which explains this nicely.
http://www.truthbooks.com/
There is a scale which you may find interesting that you can use to plot people you have observed. It shows all of the different emotions that people go through.
http://www.scientologyhandbook.org/FULL.HTM
http://www.scientology.org/en_US/religion/presentation/pg010.html
2006-12-09 23:33:28 · answer #4 · answered by HeyNowBrownCow 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's the thing that bugs me(I am loving your questions today, I'm not a stalker promise!) none of us did 'choose life' did we?
I know it's a cliche but it's true- I didn't ask to be born!
But, now that I do exist, it's quite cool.
Life is what you make of it.
There are four kind of people as far as I can tell-(my own little story this)
1-People who build enormous sand castles with the aim of making the biggest best sandcastle man has ever seen.
2-People who see these sandcastles and think '**** me, that is an amazing sandcastle, I want one of those', and then build a BIGGER BETTER one.
3-People who see the sandcastle and think, 'why have they got such a nice sandcastle? What did they do to deserve that sand castle? Bastards.' And then instead of doing whatbthe numbers 2s do, they kick down someone elses, so that NO ONE has sandcastles, but at least they have nothing to make THEM feel bad anymore.
4-People who just sit and watch people building and destroying sandcastles.
I would love to think that that I am and always be a sandcastle builder, but sometimes I do find myself thinking about kicking one down.....Hope I never will though.
2006-12-09 23:12:05 · answer #5 · answered by CHARISMA 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
There is no choice, we just have to get on with life, although now we are living we have choices along the journey of life. we are simply pasing through life until the inevitable happens.....Death! As much as we hate to die, that is a choice we can not make... well apart from those who commit suicide.
2006-12-10 04:07:34 · answer #6 · answered by sum2000mayyah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We dont choose it, thats the problem. It comes to us and then we experience it, then we have a choice from there.
That choice is to live life to the full or die and never experience this again the same things.
2006-12-10 03:22:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our options are limited to life or death.
Death being a permanent solution to a temporary problem excludes it from being a viable option.
The only logical choice is life.
2006-12-10 00:37:17 · answer #8 · answered by drg5609 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't choose life, that discision was made by your parents. Yes you can choose not to continue life, but that is plenty different from not choosing life from the outset
2006-12-09 23:09:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because with life you have a chose
2006-12-10 00:49:22 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋