what about this one? what are we doing with this life?
2007-09-21 13:33:36 · 20 answers · asked by voice_of_reason 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
because their fear their own expiry date.
2007-09-21 13:39:20 · answer #1 · answered by mrzwink 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Maybe due to the fact it will be an eternity? Our time on this earth is little compared to the afterlife. Do not most people understand that your life on this earth is just a speck of time. For you 70 or 80 years seems like a long time, but with the Lord, one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. In the big picture, we are only here for a minute amount of time in the Lord's eyes.
2007-09-21 13:45:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Especially since there is no afterlife.
Two things that humans generally all have in common is that we eventually die and we have a survival instinct. We don't like to die, but we can't avoid it. The idea of an afterlife is a way humans have devised to avoid thinking about death.
Personally, I agree with you. Spending a lot of time in this life planning for when you're dead is a waste of this life.
2007-09-21 13:37:40 · answer #3 · answered by nondescript 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
i think they feel that they have been hurt so much by this life that they cannot really deal with it. i think a lot of folks are also scared of death and focusing on what comes after and believing in heaven, full reincarnation, etc gives them hope and comfort. i think some people are afraid to act to change anything or feel a problem is too big to deal with so they want to leave it to the afterlife to solve and sort out.
2007-09-21 13:48:35 · answer #4 · answered by luvjeska 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If we are the made from evolutionary procedures as Mr. Dawkins believes, then logically there is not any 'purpose' to existence; we are the effect of of project sequence of activities, not something extra. the ideal we as human beings can do is clutter via existence eking out somewhat bit happiness here and there, starting to be previous and scarcity of existence. Our obsession with purpose is futile. that could sound nihilistic in spite of the undeniable fact that it is authentic. conserving an open recommendations with reference to the only selection, quite that we are the made from a author, is the only thank you to familiarize your self with the undertaking of why we warfare to locate meaning to our lives.
2016-12-26 21:43:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get your priorities right. This life has 100 years or more at best the afterlife lasts for eternity. This one is full of pain and suffering, the next has none.
2007-09-21 13:36:55 · answer #6 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The final state of THIS life has everything to do with eternal life. Unless a man repents before God and trusts in Christ as his savior that man's life will end in eternal suffering and torment. Why? Because that man is a law breaker to the core. That man can not do good at all, and everything he does is filth to God.
So wash yourself and be clean through the blood of Christ who was slain for you, and you will have eternal life.
2007-09-21 13:42:06 · answer #7 · answered by dooltaz 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Evolution makes us goal-orientated creatures. By definition, death removes all possibility of achieving any goals, and is therefore to be regretted. This leads to wishful thinking about an 'afterlife'.
2007-09-21 13:38:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because they have to be reassured that there is one. Otherwise they will not care about this life.
Personally there is no after-life, just like there is no pot of gold at the end of a rainbow
2007-09-21 14:02:03 · answer #9 · answered by Imagine No Religion 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not meeting ones goals or not believing one can? Imagining that all the injustice in the world will be one day eradicated? Having overwhelming grief when a loved one is gone? Hoping that ones struggles will be rewarded? On and on....
Maybe we are human.
2007-09-21 13:41:02 · answer #10 · answered by Lizbiz 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
They've been programmed to believe that everything they say, think and do is being monitored by an invisible man in the sky,24/7, who tells them they'll go to hell if they don't suck up to him.
Consequently they're obsessed with sucking up to their invisible man to 'escape hell' to settle for the blandness and endless worshiping of 'god in his heaven'.
That would drive me crazy.
I'm glad there is no heaven I can be sentenced to.
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2007-09-21 22:18:54 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋