Lewkat
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Continuence of the species.
What do you think is the purpose of your life
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I've never really liked the question "what is the purpose to your life" purposes change all through a lifetime ... I would prefer to ask what do you think gives value to your life?
Many things can add value, top of the list is helping others if and when you can. However to do that one has to add value to one' s own life first.
Many things can add value, top of the list is helping others if and when you can. However to do that one has to add value to one' s own life first.
What do you think is the purpose of your life?
To play Mantovani or Glenn Miller music as loud as possible at 2pm, while the young night hawks across the street who play their crap music as loud as possible at 2am are trying to sleep. Fair is only fair.
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asp3
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There are also a lot of non-narrow minded people who still don't believe in past lives based on what they know and have learned about the brain and human memory. I myself am one of those and believe there are other explanations for the circumstances that make some people believe in past lives and/or believe they've had past lives.
I wouldn't have commented here because I don't like to rain on people's parades, but when one characterizes people who disagree with them as narrow minded I take offense.
I would be willing to say that there isn't enough evidence for alternative explanations for past life experiences to say they can't happen, I just believe the chances of them existing are nil based on what I know.
Have you read any books on the subject? Do you know that many people with phobias have suffered trauma in past lives which is still affecting them in their current life?
Can you explain how I knew something about Tutankhamen which modern technology has only recently been able to ascertain?
When I complain that some people are narrow-minded on the subject, I mean that most people just don't wish to discuss the possibility of past lives.
Did you know that the early Christian church, which pre-dates the Catholic church, taught re-incarnation?
Can you explain how some children are born with talents without being taught them?
asp3
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I don't have an explanations for what you have experienced and I wouldn't want to put any forward as possibilities because you are experiencing your reality and it leads you to believe that past lives are real. I have no desire of taking that away from you. All I was saying is that I took offense at you characterizing people who don't believe what you do as narrow minded. I'm sure I can come up with some explanations of some of the things you've mentioned, but they wouldn't carry any weight because I am not trained as a neurologist or psychologist so they wouldn't be worth anything in the grand scheme of things.
No, I haven't read any books on the subject because it really doesn't interest me. I have however read may books about the brain, the way it works and the way it affects the way we experience the world. I am aware of how complex the act of recalling a memory are and how many different areas of the brain are used in order for us to perform that act. I'm also aware of how brain injuries can do things such as make people believe they are dead or make them believe someone they know well (such as their mother) is an imposter when they see her but are perfectly fine accepting them as their mother when the only hear her. I'm also aware of how placebos are effective in treating some people even if they are just sugar pills. So I understand how belief itself can affect us without any additional changes.
I also don't have an explanations for things that have happened to other people which some attribute to past lives. I'm not that interested overall.
drifter
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I expect this is a question of the ages, that all mankind/womankind have wondered this
questioned from the beginning of our existence. I do not have any answers but have myself
pondered my own existence. It seems all living creation procreates. Is that a life purpose?
Have we lived more lives than this one and are we here to learn, to become better spirits in order to obtain a better goodness or understanding, have we been reincarnated and/or is it likely to happe again? Is it possible there is no purpose whatsoever in our living, no grand plan guidingus? Yet we have the intelligence to ponder and question our existence. That in itself make us wonder.
If the purpose in life is to find out some of these answers then that doesn’t seem reasonable because so many die with no more knowledge of life than we possess. Thin there is the question of faith, that somewhere outside our existence is a God in charge of everything.
Life is one big mystery. Answers continue to evade us. If we could see ourselves from outer
space, we might see ourselves and realize we are no more than a grain of sand, with no
importance at all. part of something much larger than any of us can yet realize. In the final
analyses there seem to be no answers and life has no purpose no man can detect and perhaps
we can’t help but wonder, but in doing so we are wasting our time because no answer exist.
And yet, that doesn’t seem reasonable either.
questioned from the beginning of our existence. I do not have any answers but have myself
pondered my own existence. It seems all living creation procreates. Is that a life purpose?
Have we lived more lives than this one and are we here to learn, to become better spirits in order to obtain a better goodness or understanding, have we been reincarnated and/or is it likely to happe again? Is it possible there is no purpose whatsoever in our living, no grand plan guidingus? Yet we have the intelligence to ponder and question our existence. That in itself make us wonder.
If the purpose in life is to find out some of these answers then that doesn’t seem reasonable because so many die with no more knowledge of life than we possess. Thin there is the question of faith, that somewhere outside our existence is a God in charge of everything.
Life is one big mystery. Answers continue to evade us. If we could see ourselves from outer
space, we might see ourselves and realize we are no more than a grain of sand, with no
importance at all. part of something much larger than any of us can yet realize. In the final
analyses there seem to be no answers and life has no purpose no man can detect and perhaps
we can’t help but wonder, but in doing so we are wasting our time because no answer exist.
And yet, that doesn’t seem reasonable either.
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Mr. Ed
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Did you achieve what you thought your was meant to be by helping others and earning a good living for yourself? Looking back at your life are you satisfied?
JonDouglas
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If you're lucky, life is a continuous series of meaningful experiences that can result in purposeful activity - from adding value to some enterprise, inventing something useful or helping others adapt to life. It's not one thing. It's many.
No.
Well Rosemarie...are you going to keep us on tenterhooks or are you going to share how you knew these things. I am genuinely interested.
Is anyone genuinely interested or do they just want the opportunity to ridicule someone?
Capt Lightning
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I don't think that we've any great purpose at all. I think that life evolved over millions if years and we just have to make the best of the situation we find ourselves in. There's no 'God', no heaven, no hell. Now, I don't believe in reincarnation per se, but I am intrigued by the idea of 'self'. I do also believe in some form of 'inherited memory' which may give the illusion of a past life.
As for having talent. I see that as nothing more than a random chance. I suspect everyone has a natural 'talent' for something - it's often a matter of recognising this and having the opportunity of exploiting it.
As for having talent. I see that as nothing more than a random chance. I suspect everyone has a natural 'talent' for something - it's often a matter of recognising this and having the opportunity of exploiting it.
Whether or not “past lives” exist is a personal belief. This theory cannot be proven or disproven.
My interest lies in the fact that you mentioned you had a “reading” … may I ask, where did you have your “reading” … was it by a psychic? Was it by a regression therapist? Or was it an Akashic records reading?
Obviously, you are at liberty to not answer my question and I certainly won’t be offended.
What do you think is the 'new' purpose of your life?
Tagged onto, Lara's, Is this the end of mankind?
To eradicate all the polution out of my body that's built up over my lifetime, then, and only then, perhaps my canon may grow back........ with sperm aplenty.
asp3
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I don't think it's at all pathetic. I think that many children get a lot from their grandparents and their memories of them. Something you do while your grandson is young might resonate with him when he is older and help him with a difficult decision or help him find something within himself you recognized in him when you were with him.
That’s beautiful Pepper and it’s not pathetic.
As far as having nothing else to do? Perhaps try a new hobby; consider painting, taking up a musical instrument even if it’s a wind recorder, photography, writing poems or short stories, stained glass, pottery....Perhaps as your grandson ages, you might inspire him to join you in some of these hobbies like painting and it will be other thing for him to remember you for. I bet he’d get a huge kid out of grandma writing a story about him complete with pictures included ( maybe painting that you did together ; take photos for the story and keep the pictures separate or make large books. Stuff he’d treasure forever which could never be replaced.
Serenity4321
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TY Rosemarie..I believe you and no doubt you have some interesting stories but I respect your decision not to post them.
Serenity4321
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TY Dana...Purposes do change and I would add some can add value to your and others' lives..
Serenity4321
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I am genuinely interested ..anyone who ridicules should be called out by those of us interested
Serenity4321
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The term God means different things to different people...
I have read about inherited DNA memory and I agree it is an interesting theory possibly partially explaining past lives
