Peace and Love
2007-01-11 01:37:29 · 23 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes. As an atheist, I think this is especially true. I realize that this life is the only one I've got. This puts "good" and "bad" things that happen in my life in perspective. I realize that all experience, good and bad, add to my experience of life. This gives me a more positive outlook on life.
Religious people, on the other hand, I feel minimalize this life. They waste it hoping for an eternity of better life.
2007-01-11 01:39:42 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
To whomever said they can't be happy because of all the suffering, hunger, and homeless in the world:
Life can still be good for you and you can still be concerned about those issues. Torturing yourself over others' sufferings is not beneficial to yourself or to those who are suffering. There are many ways for you to assist those in need though you will not be able to help everyone. You still need to take care of you and that means emotionally. Inner peace within yourself is very important survival tool. I don't mean this to insult you, just trying to give a bit of an uplift.
As far at the question goes:
Life is good but it's not easy. It has it's ups and downs but I take them all. Life is will always be good for me so long as I learn from everything I go through. And if I repeat mistakes, hopefully I will eventually learn and grow from them.
2007-01-11 10:22:32 · answer #2 · answered by Maureen B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd have to whole heartedly say yes!! Just a few years ago I was a single mother on welfare dealing with the fact that the father of my child was a drug addict and could offer no support. I was so lost, felt so terrible, and didn't see any hope for me and my child in the future. I am now in my second year of university, have managed to buy a car, I work, my child has a good home with me, a stable environment, and although the father still is in a rough spot, this no longer has much impact on my life. I have a positive and suportive group of friends, which I didn't before, I am close with my family, which I wasn't before, and I do see hope and promise in my future. My life is good now, I have a lot on my plate, but that's okay, I know that I am doing what I need to do and that makes me feel awesome!!! Life is good, you sometimes have to work hard to make it that way, but life is good.
2007-01-11 09:43:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Life is good.
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-01-11 09:57:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Life is a good as it's going to get. I just keep hope. Everything you need in life takes patients on getting.
2007-01-11 09:41:20 · answer #5 · answered by Shannon A 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sweetheart, when you are a persont that has endured some serious "hard-knock" times.... Life is GOOD b/c you're sill here living and breathing with another chance at life on a daily basis. Even the bad times are good!
2007-01-11 09:40:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
No it isn't. I don't claim to enjoy it but I have no intention of commiting suicide so I deal with it as best I can. There had better be a karmic payback at the end of it though.
2007-01-11 09:46:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, life sure beats the alternative!
2007-01-11 09:41:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes...For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Phil. 1:21
2007-01-13 10:52:46 · answer #9 · answered by Penny Mae 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world is filled with countless blessings, but many people are not even aware of them. Buried in their own pains and anxieties, they cannot see the beauty around them or take pleasure in the things they experience. If you asked them, they would say that life is a difficult struggle up a steep slope, for they are bored with it and exhausted. They continually complain that they find no pleasure in it any more, that they want to die in order to escape it. Some even go so far as to attempt suicide.
But life does not have to be this way. Of course, it has been created together with many imperfections and limitations. But the way to face them is not to struggle with life; rather, the solution lies in believing in Allah, for:
Anyone who acts rightly, male or female, being a believer, We will give them a good life and recompense them according to the best of what they did. (Surat an-Nahl: 97)
The world, together with its imperfections, is filled with countless blessings. For those who look at life with the eyes of belief, its material and spiritual blessings are endless. As a result, they derive a deep delight from being able to see goodness and beauty everywhere and in all situations.
Most people who live apart from Allah have never even heard of these delights, since their rebellious spirit has long ago caused them to consume whatever pleasure they can find in their blessings. Devoid of belief, they spend what remains of their lives as “lost souls.” Their lives are dominated by weariness, boredom, emptiness, and unfulfilled longing. Time passes, but even if they could see the countless good things around them, they would be unable to take any true pleasure in them. Moreover, the anxieties they experience are not limited by their Earthly life.
Allah says that those who fritter away their joys in this life will be eternally deprived of them in the Hereafter:
On the Day when those who did not believe are exposed to the Fire: “You dissipated the good things you had in your worldly life and enjoyed yourself in it. So today you are being repaid with the punishment of humiliation for being arrogant in the land without any right and for being deviators.” (Surat al-Ahqaf: 20)
But no one would want to be in such a state or receive such a reward in either world. On the contrary, everyone would want to experience the finest pleasures from the possibilities that Allah gives them in both lives. And, if Allah wills, these desires can be attained rather easily.
This book
http://fs.harunyahya.net/popup/Download.php?WorkNumber=303&Format=pdf
seeks to show the deprivation, loss, and anxiety that come from living apart from religion, show people the state into which they have fallen, inform them how to keep their blessings in this world, and save themselves from the pangs they will suffer in the Hereafter. In addition, we would like to remind all people that this life is full of blessings and other good things that people can enjoy, provided that they believe in Allah. And finally, this book invites everyone to follow His Way, submit to the Qur’an, and live a life of belief.
Useful link:
secret sorrow
http://www.harunyahya.com/books/faith/secret_sorrows/secret_sorrows01.php
THE MIRACLES OF THE QUR’AN (VIDEO)
http://www.harunyahya.com/m_video_detail.php?api_id=1267
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2007-01-11 10:07:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋