For ages people have sought the meaning of life - what all this is about? Why do we exist? Do we exist? What is the purpose of our lives? What happens when Id clashes with Ego?
Pseudo-medically speaking, life could very well be defined as a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% fatality rate. Not a good feeling now, is it? I found the meaning of Life in the English dictionary under L. You could also try Googling it.
There are various other attempts at exploring all this by people from Plato to Douglas Adams to you. 42!
People try to make their lives meaningful by the pursuing diverse paths. Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler have immortalised themselves in history by the world conquests they achieved. Prophetics, cult leaders and God impersonators have immortalised themselves in history by the belief systems they spread. Hugh Hefner, Charlie Sheen and, Ron Jeremy by the number of women they bedded. Movie stars and musicians by their performances. Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and Jack the Ripper by their murderous obsessions.
Religions in general say that it is about doing good, avoid evil and thereby achieving salvation as paradise, nirvana, end circle of life, become one with God, world peace, etc..., depending on the system of belief. Of course, “doing good” and “evil” also depends on which religion we are talking about.
Eerily enough LIVE spelled backwards is EVIL! This should have meaning provided that English is the divine language.
In Islam, the purpose is clearly defined in Quran: “And I did not create the Jinn and mankind except to worship Me...” (Quran, 51:56-58). Simply just that. Not to strive to achieve paradise or 72 virgins. Just worship God. Reward shall be chosen later. But then again it all depends on the person’s mazhab, apparently.
In Christianity, it is supposedly the same as with any other Abrahamic religions. However, there are these exceptions such as Nuns who strive to be the bride of Jesus.
In Hinduism, it is about finding a way outta this shit of a life of suffering. In Buddhism, it is about achieving some Nirvana (and thus finding a way outta this shit of a life of suffering). So life you get being born as humans, or platypuses, or a cell in the lining tissue of a horse’s rectum, etc... depending on how good you were in the previous life. So no divine judgement; just your own self blindly trying to find a way outta here.
The scientific approach to it indicates that our lives are not that special – that it is just a fluke of nature, with no special place in the big scheme of things beyond evolving to more survivable beings. This gives less importance to an individual as well as its species. This concept becomes a problem especially because it removes that warm feeling of oneself being important over other beings and of having a future which we can control. No more significant than a bacteria hurtling through space on a ball of matter.
Why does some people get away with murder while others can get prosecuted for things as simple as burping in public? This is where the “life is not fair” prerogative comes into play. Push this a bit further and ask “How far will you go with evil deeds if you could get away with anything?”
We have come a long way from Eve feeding apple to Adam (or Big Bang), each with our own life, born under different circumstances, defining how we want it to be, and measuring how it is not so. So what does your life (spanning an average 50-100 years) mean to you and everyone else? What makes it meaningful? And how are you going to achieve it?
Me? An apportunity... to make a difference... with magic spells, of course.
Pseudo-medically speaking, life could very well be defined as a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% fatality rate. Not a good feeling now, is it? I found the meaning of Life in the English dictionary under L. You could also try Googling it.
There are various other attempts at exploring all this by people from Plato to Douglas Adams to you. 42!
People try to make their lives meaningful by the pursuing diverse paths. Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler have immortalised themselves in history by the world conquests they achieved. Prophetics, cult leaders and God impersonators have immortalised themselves in history by the belief systems they spread. Hugh Hefner, Charlie Sheen and, Ron Jeremy by the number of women they bedded. Movie stars and musicians by their performances. Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and Jack the Ripper by their murderous obsessions.
Religions in general say that it is about doing good, avoid evil and thereby achieving salvation as paradise, nirvana, end circle of life, become one with God, world peace, etc..., depending on the system of belief. Of course, “doing good” and “evil” also depends on which religion we are talking about.
Eerily enough LIVE spelled backwards is EVIL! This should have meaning provided that English is the divine language.
In Islam, the purpose is clearly defined in Quran: “And I did not create the Jinn and mankind except to worship Me...” (Quran, 51:56-58). Simply just that. Not to strive to achieve paradise or 72 virgins. Just worship God. Reward shall be chosen later. But then again it all depends on the person’s mazhab, apparently.
In Christianity, it is supposedly the same as with any other Abrahamic religions. However, there are these exceptions such as Nuns who strive to be the bride of Jesus.
In Hinduism, it is about finding a way outta this shit of a life of suffering. In Buddhism, it is about achieving some Nirvana (and thus finding a way outta this shit of a life of suffering). So life you get being born as humans, or platypuses, or a cell in the lining tissue of a horse’s rectum, etc... depending on how good you were in the previous life. So no divine judgement; just your own self blindly trying to find a way outta here.
The scientific approach to it indicates that our lives are not that special – that it is just a fluke of nature, with no special place in the big scheme of things beyond evolving to more survivable beings. This gives less importance to an individual as well as its species. This concept becomes a problem especially because it removes that warm feeling of oneself being important over other beings and of having a future which we can control. No more significant than a bacteria hurtling through space on a ball of matter.
Why does some people get away with murder while others can get prosecuted for things as simple as burping in public? This is where the “life is not fair” prerogative comes into play. Push this a bit further and ask “How far will you go with evil deeds if you could get away with anything?”
We have come a long way from Eve feeding apple to Adam (or Big Bang), each with our own life, born under different circumstances, defining how we want it to be, and measuring how it is not so. So what does your life (spanning an average 50-100 years) mean to you and everyone else? What makes it meaningful? And how are you going to achieve it?
Me? An apportunity... to make a difference... with magic spells, of course.
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