The experience!
2007-03-31 05:18:05
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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I take a different approach on life. I too have struggled hard and survived. I have triumphed over the slings and arrows of outrageous poverty, but now feel I am a better person for it. I have been married since I was a teen. I'm in a good marriage, not without it's own struggles. I have survived cancer, twice. I thank God with every breath that I am still here to enjoy the family and friends I have in my life. I feel life is a great gift. God did not have to give us life. He did not have to give us this Earth, which includes everything we need to sustain our lives. He did not have to make the Earth so beautiful! He did not have to give us our senses to enhance every vision, sound, touch, taste,and smell. He did not have to give us the freewill to make our own choices in life. If you are the gutter fighter you say you are, you will not suggest insulting our creator by holding your breath until you die. You will stay and continue to fight, to enjoy, to cry, to laugh and take chances. Life is a gift, open yours.
2007-03-31 15:27:49
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answer #2
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answered by Sunnidaze 3
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The only important answer is your answer and it has to come from you. You have to decide why it is important to live. I don't think anybody else's reason for living is going to be as meaningful to you as the reason that you decide (or have decided) is why you want to live. Also, God is not being "Godly" over anyone. That is why we call it "free will." Finally, while you say you are not suicidal, which I am relieved to hear, are you really "living" if you are choosing not to be married NOT because you don't want the joy of that type of commitment and all the baggage that entails, but more because you are afraid it will upset the balance (?not sure of the word) that you feel you have achieved by overcoming the trials of life that you (and the rest of us) have all faced. I wish you the best and I hope you find your own answer.
2007-04-06 17:05:37
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answer #3
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answered by margot 5
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80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.
I've come to two conclusions recently:
1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.
First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.
Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.
So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.
To be or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is inevitable.....
2007-04-01 03:38:35
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answer #4
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answered by Its not me Its u 7
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It doesn't sound as if you need much more insight in terms of this question, as you have already reached resolution in its regard. However, some might be inclined to ask, given your insights, if you have confused a reason for living or a "point" for existence, with the mere will to survive. The question of the point of human existence is not a problem which we solve, it is, rather a mystery that seizes hold of us. Why? Probably, because we are conscious of the fact that we exist, rather than do not exist, and that we did not, by our own act of will, cause ourselves to be. As to the point of this existence that we mysteriously possess, if only for a limited time, one can never be absolutely certain, and it is the admission of this truth, that is the beginning of all wisdom. Many have not sought a reason in this regard, but have found resolution in a Revelation.
2007-03-31 13:14:10
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answer #5
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answered by Timaeus 6
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I think that is one of the many unanswered questions that keep us fighting, help us survive...keep us alive. I think deep inside everyone hopes to reach that stage (known to us as death) where we hope to find all the answers; a time when we will understand and be amazed at the simplicity of it all. This is the reason why I refuse to believe that this is it, instead I choose to embrace the idea of immortality of our soul. The way I see it there is no point to life and all that we struggle for if this was it. We are struggling to achieve knowledge, something divine, a true existence.
2007-04-07 15:51:51
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answer #6
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answered by justanothergirl 2
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There might be some meaning waiting for you. How you said you achieved your HARD WON happiness, and now, what do you do with it? If this happiness makes you "truly" happy, this is exceptional, then truly enjoy it, but why then asking such a question? What is it what makes you "truly" happy?
Your fortune, earthly goods, luxury? Then enjoy it until you realize, it will not fill your inner void. (If you have one).
To come so far means that you now can "use" that what you acquired for something "meaningful". You can be proud of yourself, stop and look at it and then "move on", using it for something even more precious. Something which changes something to the better. If you do not wish to marry, leave it.
And in my opinion: God does not need us, but we need God.
2007-03-31 20:12:52
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answer #7
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answered by I love you too! 6
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Mind the power of presuppositions. There almost the most powerful tool of human interaction. You're presupposing that all of those things are true that you've stated, and they very well might be. But you assume things to be true or factual that are clearly choice. Being a "gutter fighter" is a label that comes with nobody initially. You gave yourself that title, you made yourself that by choice. The level you're now at is only a certain aspect of life. Not better or worse, just different. Now the trick is people are only unhappy with themselves when other people are, or have been, unhappy with who they are. I'm willing to bet that if everyone who came into your life said "OH MY GOD YOU'RE AMAZING" you wouldn't be questioning the point of life right now. Life is a choice and you can choose to take the negatives and choose to allow people to lower you in some way, or you can choose to say that's just where they are right now, I'm good, I'm worthy, I'm a quality individual because even my negative aspects serve a purpose. Your good aspects help people and your negative aspects are resistance that promote growth in yourself in others, while they probably may be best if looked to be changed they still serve a purpose. I'll start changing my point of view on things if I want to change the way I feel about life, because when I'm happy with life is the only time i'm really qualified to judge what it's worth is. You can make your own values to thing. Life initially has no rules or structure, you can create it to be however you want to. You can choose to be mediocre and take everyone's opinion and point of view upon what life is or you can take your power and create your own experience exactly the way you want it to be. And you can do this by intending and projecting what you want to be forcefully. Not aggressively, but assertively and insistantly. You'll be in command of your life. Which is the way it is anyway, but many people actually need permission to do this because they haven't stumbled across this piece of knowledge on their own. Well now you have. You can be anything you want, and if you'll advance confidently in the direction of your dreams, and endeavor to live the life which you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. See everything you would like to be in yourself as though it existed now. And project it with great attentativeness and assertiveness. You'll find your brain can't tell the difference between you vividly imagining and believing something to be true, and it actually being true. Which is why so many people say so many good things about visualizing their success beforehand. So if you believe yourself to be something enough, you'll act that way, and when you act that way, others will believe it too. There's no difference between you truly believing something and it truly being. See what you want as though it's there already, and try not to focus too hard on the details. Let go of the outcome, because it's only when you have no fears, worries, or anxieties that you're free. I'll let all of my fears go, we all die one day, I just let go. I never worried once after that and it's been a very positive experience for me. When you feel like you have everything you want in yourself, when you feel like you can do anything and be anything because you're not afraid of public opinion, and when you do these things in confidence, pursuing what you want. You'll find there isn't anything that is unattainable for you. And then the question will never be what's the point? but it will be What else can I do to make everything even better for everyone? Because it will be Amazing.
2007-03-31 12:30:38
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answer #8
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answered by Answerer 7
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A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God.
Im not sure I believe you have "hard won happiness" If so why would you ask this question about the point of living? If you are afriad of having a bad marriage, becareful then whom you marry. Beware of the woman that wears much gold and hides her face in make-up and her body in designer clothes. Marry the plain woman that wears no jewelry, no make-up and covers her whole body with the clothes she wears. (hard to find i know, but they are out there, you just have to look) If you are afraid to marry her because she is not as pretty as the ones that wear make-up, gold, designer clothes, then you were never interested in finding love, only interested in growing your own self-love.
As for the holding your breath comment...God created man once...you think he cant do it again?
2007-03-31 15:30:06
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answer #9
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answered by Anonymous
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I truly feel that God puts us all here for a purpose, and we are here to find what that is an do our best. Some know their purpose early on, and some don't find out until they are 80. While we all struggle and sometimes lose sight of the objective of our existence, just being able to experience life, the love of family and friends, and the beauty of God's creation... well, that makes it all worth while for me.
2007-04-07 10:42:18
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answer #10
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answered by springbeanqueen 2
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we live for the everyday. we live to experience. there are many things that just "feel" good. favorite foods, favorite people, favorite sounds, favorite ideas, favorite colors, favorite time of the day, favorite things to do, favorite things to play... everyone has something in their life that gives their existence meaning. some people say that a god gives them meaning, other's say work, other's say love, others say mere virtue... the list goes on. the point is that life is worth living because you'd rather be alive experiencing all the great stuff the world has to offer than being dead. life is good. but don't listen to me. get yourself a puppy and you'll see.
2007-03-31 12:36:19
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answered by bornslippyboy 3
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