How do you feel about this life? Are you happy? Does your religion/spirituality make this life more rewarding and fun? Have you found it to be holding you back?
2007-03-19 18:45:52 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes
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namaste
2007-03-19 19:10:14 · answer #1 · answered by wb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This life is fraught with trial if you are living according to the principles of God, but living according to his principles is what makes life worthwhile. Fun is great when you're a kid, everything is new and exciting and challenging, but there is a time to put away childish things. Not that new, exciting and challenging is childish, but it's not the whole of life as it is when you're in the process of learning everything, rather than as it is later when you know much of what you need to keep order in your life. Fun then loses its place as the first adjective that comes to mind regarding meaningful life. God has given us this wisdom but unregenerate man thinks that there is a better way than the way that God has set down for us. Which is why children oppress and women rule now. So much the wisdom of man.
2007-03-20 02:08:06 · answer #2 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. My religion suggests that the universe was a mistake and life is caught up in the middle of the mess. It’s something between Christianity, Buddhism, and The MATRIX. Goal is to find a crack in the cosmic wall and get the hell out of this absurd universe. Too far fetched? Well I have an open mind to be sure.
2007-03-20 01:55:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not happy most of the time no. I look at all of the suffering in the world. All the horrible things happening. Every minute of every day. I am finding it very difficult to be happy at all any more. And for all the atheists who think believers are idiots. What is wrong with thinking our children will one day be in a beautiful place where they don't have to worry about being raped, tortured and buried alive. No happy kid. I am not much happy any more.
2007-03-20 01:52:25 · answer #4 · answered by Rosalind S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My life, although full of things I'd rather forget, is enjoyable--I work hard to make it that way!
Back when I was actively seeking God I was always confused, and now I have a very simple and peaceful life. I love only being concerned about the earth and the people on it, it's liberating.
2007-03-20 02:01:31 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My religious affiliations (theosophy) certainly made my life more interesting. Happier? I don't know. It's not really an option to check what my life would be right now if I didn't have them. I'm happier then before, but I attribute that to being older, not to my spiritual interests.
2007-03-20 11:38:57 · answer #6 · answered by katinka hesselink 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing i found to be holding me back was going to a Baptist church in my younger years. I basically had to relearn life....not joking. Now I would be lost without my beliefs, and those aren't religious in anyway.
2007-03-20 01:56:42 · answer #7 · answered by Dereck 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My life has become richer and happier. Does it hold me back...no on the contrary. I have made some great strides both for God and in my daily activities such as my job, my marriage and my friendships.
2007-03-20 01:51:04 · answer #8 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish I could do a lot more then I have accomplished.
This life gets me down sometimes for a lot of situations it has becomes damned if you do and damned if you don't sorta thing.
2007-03-20 01:50:14 · answer #9 · answered by gotagetaweigh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None of my belife is holding me back. I am not to happy though. I have something so special and amazing. and every person i try to share it with gets mad! =[ but otherwise i am happy.
2007-03-20 01:49:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am often held back by my own idiocy. When I complained to God about it he said, "Well, stop any time." Very funny, eh? I feel great in spite of myself.
2007-03-20 01:50:20 · answer #11 · answered by Nowpower 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋