Enjoy your life this is all you got..
So my question is for him, and other who agree with that thought is
How would you tell the people that are poor, starving and dying of disease in Africa to enjoy thier life?
How would you tell the people that are dying all over the worl through warfare, sickness poverty to enjoy thier life?
Are you saying Life is *Luck of the Draw* some are born to be lucky and some just were given a bad hand???
In the Animal Kingdom some were lucky to be born King of the Jungle and some were just unlucky to be born Bambi and be devoured?
Is life just one stoke of luck bad or good to you?
2007-11-02 10:23:23 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, you got it about right.
Or are you saying that the starving people have been given a bad life by 'god' while 'god' gave me a good life??
Which view makes more sense to you?
2007-11-02 10:31:07 · answer #1 · answered by Grotty Bodkin is not dead!!! 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Excellent question that gets a star.
To go out and seek our own happiness leads to unhappiness because we somehow know that living for our own happiness is a purpose not worthy of living.
The other illogic of the poster is this. We are all looking for happiness and that poster implies that the purpose of our life is to be happy. It's like asking someone for directions to a town and the person responds that you should go to that town.
2007-11-02 23:25:29 · answer #2 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically life sucks. Even those born into riches frequently aren't happy with it. However, life is also what you make it. The best way I know to make life enjoyable is to do your best to make life enjoyable for others, to seek good for others, to learn to appreciate beauty where you find it, to seek to understand mysteries, and not to take it too seriously.
If you can leave this world having made a positive impact in other's lives, then you have "won"... at least in my mind.
2007-11-03 05:36:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Epictetus said, "No thing is so, that you do not think it so." He meant that we choose to name our lives good or ill. If it is a choice, and I think it is, then have a good life, be happy.
I've known soldiers that remember being, "more alive when under fire", than any other time in their lives. I remember my Mother's fondest memories were of her life in depression era Mississippi. Hard times don't end the beauty in life. That can always be found, and is only foolishly denied.
2007-11-02 10:42:08 · answer #4 · answered by Herodotus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life can suck honey. Just because someone is born into a crappy situation, doesn't make a magical sky daddy any more reasonable. **Crappy situations is why religion is such a great tool of the powerful and why religions take hold quite well in third world countries.
2007-11-02 10:28:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is what it is.....
Changes can be made - but usually aren't.
Poverty can be "cured" - but there is no interest in doing it.
Starvation on our plentiful planet is unnecessary - but no one cares enough to end it.
Many diseases can be prevented - no action is taken to spread the prevention throughout the world.
War can be prevented and made obsolete - but man loves war so won't do anything to stop them from happening.
So long as we are only interested in ourselves, nothing will change. So long as man thinks war will give him something he wants, nothing will change.
In spite of all the religion, charities, prayers, nothing has changed....nobody really cares beyond their own interests.
2007-11-02 10:52:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that's pretty much it. Is that somehow worse than telling them to just suffer along, as they'll get rewarded after they die?
2007-11-02 10:36:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes you get a good hand, sometimes you get a crappy hand. Life is alot of what you get and alot of what you make of it. It is heartbreaking sometimes... the world is not fair.
2007-11-02 10:29:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You nailed it. It is luck of the draw AND how you CHOSE to view it.
2007-11-02 10:26:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Pretty much.
2007-11-02 10:27:45 · answer #10 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋