Let I start this question with an exaple, imagine that you work for a company from 7 am until 12 and your job is so hard and you want from your boss to pay for you very good because you deserve good salary for such hard job but in end you see that your boss tell you, I will not pay any thing for you. Don't that make you sad?
now look at your life, you grow , live, made your home, make friends, family, country but in the end death will take every thing from you with not any reward for your actions in life.
You will lose all of them some day.
How you see that resonable to take reward from your boss but not from your life?
2007-05-28 23:50:22 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You didn't got the point, even if life is your reward some day you will lose it.
2007-05-29 00:09:12 · update #1
I love your question. A star to bring it to the attention of my other contacts.
2007-05-29 17:27:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your illustrative example is not the best. I don't look at this life as a hard sun-up to sun-down job for no pay. Sure it's not always easy but I have good life full of day to day joy (some of which I make but not all of it). I don't feel that trying to live the best I can requires a reward.
The impermanence of life is what makes it more beautiful and precious to me.
2007-05-29 01:16:25 · answer #2 · answered by K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That made no sense. If my boss didn't pay me for what I'm worth I'd look for another job. I wouldn't be sad, I'd be annoyed but in the end you can't have everything your way instantly.
You basic argument is that we should want there to be something at the end of our lives regardless of whether it's true or not. Now, you can believe all you like but I'm not gonna waste my life hoping and believing in something which is more than likely not true. I have better things to worry about that what's going to happen to me when I die.
And to be fair, yes I do wish that there was some sort of alternative to life just ending but that isn't realistic and lets face it, I can think of a better afterlife than going to your Heaven and worshipping your god for all eternity.
2007-05-29 00:01:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Everybody dies.
Our reason for living should not be the imagined hope of some fantasy after death. That would be a reason to live a very unfulfilled life.
If you care about your fellow man, your planet, your family that is plenty to give life here and now meaning.
If you have to resort to invisible/imaginary creatures in order to give your life meaning, I feel very sorry for you.
2007-05-29 03:32:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Living without ballast is fun and prolific.
You can concentrate on real issues instead of trying to suit the assumed will of a chimera that you worship because mommy, daddy and that sermonizer told you.
Instead of praying to the wallpaper in your bedroom try a new strategy:
Accept that you have to die and don't ask for elusions.
Cultivate compassion. Help others.
Live today, not after your death. Understand mindfulness.
Do all this, and you have an instant reward.
2007-05-29 00:04:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not about what I will 'take' from life. It doesn't matter if I want a reward at the end, it's just not going to happen.
I'm happy because I enjoy the life that I have. I'm not so worried about death. To paraphrase Mark Twain: "I was not alive for billions of years before my birth and it didn't inconvenience me in the least."
2007-05-28 23:56:23 · answer #6 · answered by The Lobe 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. The sun shines on us all.
Everything that is not man made in this universe runs by perpetual motion. You people, who know a better way to do anything or everything, must be very smart indeed; or, totally ignorant -- and proud of it.
What is eternity over seventy? That's what your life will amount to: nothing.
2007-05-29 19:01:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't see life as a job. Life is it's own pleasure and reward. In the end, I will lose everything. However, I will not be in a position to mind.
2007-05-29 00:17:34 · answer #8 · answered by Tom :: Athier than Thou 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because you learn that life is your reward. And you learn to make your life the best it can be, and enjoy your time while it lasts.
Sure beats putting your trust into something nobody can prove is real, and wasting your time alive doing what you don't want to do just to die without actually living.
But that's the beauty of life. You have your choice.
Now decide for yourself, and stop trying to convince other people to join your clan. It's obvious that your question has overtones of religious pressure.
2007-05-28 23:55:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am happy because I love and am loved. I am happy because I am a positive, contributing member of society, free from irrational thought.
I am happy because I love my job, earn decent money and have great friends.
I am happy because I believe in life BEFORE death.
I am happy because I know that when I die, it is the end and there is no malevolent god waiting on the other side.
I am happy because I have every reason to be happy.
My life IS my reward.
2007-05-29 00:03:15 · answer #10 · answered by Vonnie 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I have found myself enjoying the special moments in life much more as an agnostic than I did as a Christian. As a Christian I worked on the basis that I had all eternity to enjoy and be with those that I loved. Now I know my time with them is far to short and I appreciate them even more.
~Edit~ No you don't get the point. We know that there is death and that we will die and that we have no control over it.
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2007-05-28 23:58:49 · answer #11 · answered by Aria 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋