What is life?

Question

A terminal disease contracted during birth and has a 100% mortality rate!

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death! What's that, a bonus?!? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. The you go live in an old age home. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, then, when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You drink alcohol, you party, and you get ready for High School. You go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little boy(girl), you go back, you spend your last 9 months floating with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap, then you finish off as an orgasm!!

Uff... Now that's what life should be!!

What do you think?

Answer 1

Life – it has a meaning and loving purpose - you just have to find your purpose and live it.

I believe every person is here for a definite purpose. Each person is special and valuable; that refers to me, you, your family, friends, in fact everybody! There is a loving plan for each of our lives here on earth and there is no such thing as coincidence. I don't believe that anything in life happens by chance and that every aspect of our lives points to something deeper.

You need to decide now to live for God rather than for yourself. You spend your life on Earth preparing yourself (as best you can) for death. I don't see death as a scary, negative experience, but birth into a bliss filled eternal life with God. I believe that this is something you have to consciously choose or not during your life on earth.

The meaning of life is for us to discover that we are true children of an infinitely loving and merciful God, to find out what our responsibilities are to our Creator, and to fulfill those responsibilities. Each of us is called to affirm, accept and develop the talents God has given us. -

Answer 2

First off, going backwards in life wouldn't really be any better than going forward. The greatest part about being a child is not knowing of all the dangers that are out there, that is what allows you to be so joyful and carefree. As you grew younger people would start bossing you around, and older siblings would start thinking they were so much better than you. So the only way to really be a child again would be to slowly lose all the things you'd known throughout your life; and how is that different from growing old and becoming senile?
Secondly, the greatest thing about life on Earth is that it ends. If it never ended, it would just continue forever, constantly becoming less and less new as time went on. It would end up becoming old and boring, like school ended up after you got through the years when it was new and fresh. That's also one of the wonders of childhood and youth: discovering what can be so great about life. If you've already seen a life's worth of experiences, what is there left to discover?
I believe that we have a purpose in life, and the way life is now provides the best avenue toward the realization of that goal. Growing younger would only rob you of the innocence and curiosity that make life so great and make the message of the young so much more intriguing and inspirational.

Thanks for listening, and God bless.

Answer 3

I think that would certainly be an interesting and very different way to live life. However, if we did that, we could know exactly when and how we would die. I'm not so sure that I want to know when and how I'm going to die...it's too much of a downer.

Also, we were given life to become older and wiser. If we started with careers, we couldn't know everything and have all of the knowledge required to be successful in those jobs. And then going to college then high school then middle school then elementary school, etc etc everything would get easier not more challenging, so we'll never learn more--only less.

God created us to begin young, be brought up by wiser people who know more of and about Him, so that we can develop a relationship with God. :-)

I hope I contributed to a nice insightful discussion. It was really great to read a new opinion/point of view. I've never heard that idea before :-)

Answer 4

Very creative thinking. Maybe there is a universe where things work in reverse like that. I wonder how karma works there? do you get to experience the effect, and then the cause? hmmm, would make for some interesting lessons for Soul. And what about reincarnation? Do you start out as an old Soul, experienced, and God-Realized, and grow younger and less experienced with each incarnation? Fascinating.

Answer 5

Going back like that is a little too much for me even though i am near the end of my life cycle. I like things the way they have been planned. Look at it this way some people die young-never grow up-never fall in love(even though we do not like our broken hearts-we experienced)-never laugh-never play- never sing-never feel the rain drops on your face-build a snowman-climb a mountain-wade in a stream of water.NEVER is more death then death itself. I believe a person is made up of three parts a body(that dies) a mind that with any luck at all somehow survives along with the spirit. In other words I personally think we are more then a body. Even when we die a part of us survives!

Answer 6

Life is what you make out of it.
Life is everything that happens in between while you are working on your goals.
Life is the ultimate adventure and probably the last time to make it right.
Life is energy and energy is indestructible. Energy is transform over and over and over (infinite times).
Life is living to the fullest each and every moment responsibly.

Answer 7

The recommended safe duration (in hours or measurable wear on the component) of any part on an aircraft. This length of time is determined by either fatigue or the operational wear on the part.

Answer 8

Although it sux to get old and tired and die, the ultimate LIFE which is HEAVEN pretty much makes up for it .....kabagrjtrekbkillllllion times!!! Heaven is so much better and more amazing than anything in this life you could ever think of. Jesus is preparing heaven for us right now, and all you have to do is believe....this life isn't the end it is the BEGINNING of life....chew on that for awhile and God bless you

Answer 9

Life, in its most generic definition, is a quality of matter. Matter that is 'alive' forms organisms of vast variety. Properties common to the known organisms found on Earth (plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea and bacteria) are that they are carbon-and-water-based, are cellular with complex organization, undergo metabolism, possess a capacity to grow, respond to stimuli, reproduce and, through natural selection, adapt in succeeding generations.

Answer 10

That was amazing! I love it! Your creative process of thought is most impressive! Thank you for giving me something to ponder for today.

And forget what "barefoot" said, I am a Christian but I still found the question quite fascinating.