2007-05-25 17:59:01 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
to enjoy it to it's fullest extent
2007-05-25 18:08:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
To learn this and get it right.
A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.
After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.
Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.
I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.
I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.
If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.
I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.
Love and blessings
Your brother
don
2007-05-26 08:35:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To have a life of purpose?
2007-05-26 01:03:07 · answer #3 · answered by Malorum 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Partly to prove Iblis wrong. Life is an opportunity to change your mind about whether Iblis (Lucifer/satan) can be a god. This equates to an opportunity to advance or regress your condition after life. If you would like to avoid regression, it would be best to trust that there is only one God, and there is and never will be and never was any other God besides God. He is the one you and all of us (including all of the past, present, and future human messengers) will return to on the last day. God has no children, He created everything and everyone. There is nothing that does not come from God. This is because before God there was and is, and never will be another God.
2007-05-26 02:09:32 · answer #4 · answered by water boy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of life is to make a meaningful existence before you become extinct.
2007-05-26 02:41:11 · answer #5 · answered by Jags 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-05-26 01:32:26 · answer #6 · answered by art_tchr_phx 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Purpose of life is nothing but just "keep searchin the purpose without any purpose"......
2007-05-26 02:09:52 · answer #7 · answered by simonxl2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To discharge God's trust for we all, the man. And sure, God create all of us for a purpose, not only for damaging his beautiful universe. Are you in dubious??
2007-05-26 01:37:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to learn....
life is like a school and time is a best teacher, so we re all student...
act like a student, never give up to learn..to take the best and the worst, sweet and bitter... till we found one day fine, that nothing more we want deeply in this life but a word called "peace"...
2007-05-26 01:27:59 · answer #9 · answered by vio 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing.
Nothing at all.
Except to recycle the free energy at the surface of the earth.
2007-05-26 01:09:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To serve the Almighty God. and to help your fellow man and woman.
2007-05-26 01:31:18 · answer #11 · answered by jandl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋