People of All beliefs: what would be the best cause to dedicate the rest of my life to?

Question

I am 31 and not yet married. What do you suggest? How could I leave the world a better place?

Fly a plane into a tower? Missionary? Bomb the Vatican?
Work to feed the hungry? Stay in the Western world, become rich and donate lots of money???


Please state your belief and your opinion on this.

Blessings
David

PLEASE STATE your faith as well.

Answer 1

Well, honestly the get rich and donate lots of money is pretty much the best option. If you can make a fortune like Bill Gates or Warren Buffett and donate it to some charitable cause you can easily exceed the aggregate good you could perform if you went to Africa and started digging wells or distributing condoms right now and continued for the rest of your life. Clearly, you have more value in some fields than others - all you have to do is find those fields, convert your time to money, then give that money to the charity of your choice.

And, of course, if your goal is to fly a plane into a building you could probably fly it into a much taller building at the end of your life than you could today (and probably you'd hire the pilots).

Answer 2

I'd go with the "Work to feed the hungry", bit, as that's one of the main "greater causes" I'd feel drawn towards, but that's just a personal thing really. It's entirely possible that you'd be too uncomfortable around the homeless or those in foreign countries that most need the help to do all that much good, which is a perfectly valid reason not to do that kind of stuff.

My suggestion to be along the "Listen to God and see what he tells you." line of thought. I may personally contend that any answer you receive from God will be from within a part of yourself, but what does that matter?...

There's any number of things one can do to make the world a better place though, if you're inclined towards the sciences, that would be one definite route, enhancing human knowledge, if you have some service you're particularly good at, stick with that, provide it humbly at prices not above what you really need, the minor convenience will ultimately be helping people. The only serious option I'd recommend against would be wealth, regardless of it is obtained with the goal of charity or not, too many things tend to be inadvertently harmed in the quest for wealth to justify its pursuit.

Answer 3

Study and dedicate yourself to Jehovah God and then you will beable to tell people what the future of mankind is going to be.
So next time they come knocking at your door give it the benifit of the doubt and listen to what they have to say. It won't cost you anything but a little time and you will lern more in that little time that you have learned in a lfe time. And ask as many questions that you can think of. They will tell you the truth even though the truth hurts sometimes, and you won't be living a life of lies and decete.

Sincerely yours,
Fred M. Hunter
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Answer 4

I remember a saying that went something like this:

When I was a child I wanted to change the world; when I grew older and realized I could not do that I decided just to change my nation; When I became an adult I decided I can only change my city; When I got old I decided just to settle for my family; When I was very old I realized that I could only change myself.


And when I changed myself for the better I also changed my family and then my city, then my nation and then the world.

The point is that you should work to make yourself a better person.

If that means helping other people then that is what you should do. In the end you might just make the world better.


as for my religion: I am Jewish.

Answer 5

there's a really good book called 'The Dream Giver' and it talks about direction in ones life. The best way to change the world is to not try and change the world but to change the life of just one person every moment. You can't possibly change the world but if you help change even just one life it will have rippling effects. Reminds me of a story about his little boy who was walking on a beach and came across hundreds of starfish that had washed up on shore and he was picking them up 1 by 1 and throwing them back into the ocean....this man came by and said to the boy 'you don't honestly imagine you are making a difference do you' and the little boy picked up another starfish and threw it into the ocean and said 'I made a difference to that one' So live impeccably and try to bring goodness to at least one person and in the trying you might just bring goodness to many.

Answer 6

I am a practicing Polythesist, Witch, and Goddess-worshiper. I believe in love unto all things (includeing yourself). I do not believe that you will find what you seek from without, if you cannot find it within. I believe you should do as your heart says. If you get that warm fuzzy glow from helping the needed then go for it! If running, biking, swimming, or playing video games does it, then do it!! Enjoy each minute you have on this planet, because in the end, there never seems to have been enough.

Answer 7

Serve the Almighty God with your time, treasure, and talent.

This is from you own abilities. Each person has a different ability.

Each person has time that they can spend doing the work of God Almighty. We raise our families and rejoice in our work.

Each of us have a different amount of money such as a poor widow may have but a penny but gives it from her heart or a wealthy man may have a great deal of money but give small portion.

Give from the heart but do not let your family suffer as a result - God gave us brains to use.

Read - Ecclesiastes (Qoh) it is short but full of contemplations about our time in the flesh.

Answer 8

David, the best thing you can do is to dedicate yourself to knowing and doing God's will. As the saying goes, everything else is gravy.

I am a non-denominational Christian.

Answer 9

Jhn 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

and

Jhn 21:17 Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

No matter how much money is spent on feeding the poor, wicked men will always try to exploit them. Therefore, it’s best to feed people with spiritual food so they will never be hungry again when Jesus establishes his kingdom on Earth.

Rev 7:16 “They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore;
the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.

Mat 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven.

Answer 10

i am a wiccan and the only suggestion i can give is that you need to come to that answer your self no one can answer for you . trust your heart it will tell you what to do. if your looking for a religion or faith to follow i suggest you read up on all of them and follow the one that best describes what you feel is true in your heart. their is no true religion i follow wicca because it is the closest religion structure that i can find that is similar to my beliefs. and even i don't beleive in everything that religion states as its belief structure. trust in your self sweetie and you wont go wrong or astray.