if not, what, in your opinion, is more important than just life, and what's worse than death?
2007-07-11 00:34:48 · 24 answers · asked by yin yang 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
numbnuts: love your answer, thats a great way of looking at it
2007-07-11 00:43:37 · update #1
what is worse than death? fearing it. A greater "punishment" than death? ETERNAL life....just what would you do forever that wouldnt eventually turn either boring or painful?
Sometimes the problems in thinks isnt in the the things themselves but in the way we think about them...
Death will be like the most peaceful and dreamless sleep; welcome it, it is what will save you from the punishments of life :)
2007-07-11 01:54:18 · answer #1 · answered by Free Radical 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life itself is not much of a gift. Life with love and happiness is a great gift.
Death is not the greatest punishment because at the point of death, you become unaware and feel nothing. Worse than death is pain and suffering.
2007-07-11 00:38:27 · answer #2 · answered by Nasubi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is. To consider life a gift is to acknowledge that man has given himself the authority to take it away. Something cannot be a gift unless it is ours to give. Death should simply be the result of life. These two things, life and death, are not all there is. Our life in this world is a vessel for our eternal soul. Temporary by nature, but still very important for today. Not so much for after. What's worse than death? ...... to have never lived.
2007-07-11 00:49:53 · answer #3 · answered by naniannie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nice question! Godd way to start off the day by making me think!
Life is a great gift - but it is not the greatest...
Jesus, who died on the cross for my sins, so I may be free to dwell with God (after I die) is the greatest gift...
And if perhaps, that does not settle well with folks who are tired of religion, I have another answer -
Time is the greatest gift...it becomes what you make of it...the good, the bad...the ugly, the wasted, etc.
What is worse than death? Being totally and utterly alone in the universe for eternity...it makes my soul shutter to think about it...
2007-07-11 01:20:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is definately the greatest gift. Without that, you wouldn't be able to give/receive everything that living has to offer.
Death is not the greatest punishment. In many situations, it's the death of a loved one that is the greatest punishment. Unless you are tortured or suffer from a lingering disease that slowly cripples you, you may not even feel death (in which case you wouldn't suffer and wouldn't really be punished).
2007-07-11 00:39:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think life is really the greatest gift among other gifts we received. This is because it is the very first gift you received in your own life others just follow suit. On the other hand, death is not the greatest punishment because death doesn't mean punishment --- it means ending your only life!
2007-07-11 00:47:11 · answer #6 · answered by Third P 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all, you're implying that someone is granting us life and death. Second of all, you're implying that death is something that is actually experienced. I'm not sure either of those are true.
Maybe life is a gift, though I'm not even sure what that means. What's the alternative? Not existing? If you didn't exist, you wouldn't really be missing out on the gift.
Death as punishment? Well, doesn't punishment imply that you experience guilt and shame and hardship for a prolonged period of time? Simply dying doesn't seem to carry any of those things with it, you simply exist one moment, then stop existing the next. Death isn't a punishment unless you attach ideals like hell to it.
2007-07-11 00:39:47 · answer #7 · answered by numbnuts 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes Human life is greatest gift to know GOD.
This body can emit that GOD consciousness better than any being on this earth.
Death is not a punishment.
In fact Sometimes Death is a gift.
Tell me is it correct to live with a rotten, stinking body for eternity.
If you have to live 100years of life with one pair of dress how stinking it would be.
So we came on this earth with some purpose so until we fulfill that we have to be on this earth.
It may take many life times so we have to change bodies just like we change our clothes.
Death is as real as life.
Let me be frank with you If there is no death you wont even respect this so called life.
We are eternal as a soul we are never born and we are never going to die.
Thankyou.
2007-07-11 01:23:44 · answer #8 · answered by luvuchaitu 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I honestly believe that we live so that we my die, but what we do in between will set us up in whatever comes after. If its re-incarnation, than good deeds and thoughts will be rewarded in a better life, or in monotheism, God will judge favourably for you for good deeds. Either way, doing the right moral thing happily is what we live to do.
As Socrates once said, "why am i afraid of death? I have died many times and been reborn many times. I have never experianced death, but everyone in the past has. How do I know that it is bad?" So true, and i like this thought, that death is not the end, but a beggining.
2007-07-11 00:42:58 · answer #9 · answered by carabatzis_2000 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is a gift but death isnt a punishment.its just the end of the gift so enjoy the gift while ite here
2007-07-11 00:42:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋