Dying like everyone else but why are we here and what were to do during our time here?
It took me a long time to come to the realization that the purpose of life is to live it, no more or less. As I near the end of my time, I find that I want to make a statement, to do something meaningful. What that is I'm not yet certain, but I find myself thinking about it more each day.
I feel I am much in the same place as you. I read somewhere recently that the real meaning of life was to find meaning in it.
I do feel that is what it's all about. There is something we must know, must learn, must find or figure out -- something we need to understand -- a reason, a purpose, a mission from God if you will.
Sure, we can be born, and live our lives as we are told we should do, and then die without a clue as to how we should have lived the precious gift of life we had been given, and is now gone.
It's hard to contemplate not being.
I suppose perception is a matter of perspective, and we all see things differently because of our different bodies and experiences, viewpoints, etc.
The main problem with Truth, as I see it, is that it is so hard to see because it is so close to me. It is too near. As I said before, it is like always arriving at the place you never left, or of finding something you didn't lose. And also, because we keep putting it in our back pocket and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it.
The little known secret about life (or perhaps more specifically, about consciousness) is that you CAN know the truth, but you have to want it more than anything else in the world. That is why, in the bible, the very first commandment is that you must put God first before everything else.
My sincere apologies to the non-believers in our audience for that. It's hard to keep religion out of a conversation about life and death. I do understand and appreciate your position, and your quandary. And I admit, the whole religion thing is a difficult pill for me to swallow, too. Only after much research have I come to understand what a chopped up mess the New Testament is after so many centuries of passing through the hands of so many "divinely inspired" transcriptionists. It is still being rewritten even to this day and hardly resembles the religion Yeshua/Jesus practiced and taught.
But I won't annoy you further with thoughts on that. I will just say that it's all up to you, what you think and what you do, and even what you don't do.
