Monday, March 3, 2008
What is the meaning of life?
"What is the meaning of life?" is a question I sometimes ask myself. I don't have all the answers I'm not going to pretend to know everything. What I do know is we all have 3 basic needs 1.Eat 2.Seek Shelter and most importantly 3. Reproduction. If there is no meaning of life then is life meaningless? It's possible that religion was created so people had had a higher purpose. But I have a theory. I believe the meaning of life is different in everyone. What's right for one person may not be right for another. You have to look inside of yourself and follow your dreams before you'll become truly enlightened. Without doing any soul searching you'll never know why you are who you are or what you could have been or what you could still be. If everyone truly thinks to themselves "What is the meaning of life?" They may all come up with the same answer which is the pursuit of happiness. What makes one person happy may make another miserable. What makes one person miserable may make another happy. If you want to know your meaning of life then simply ask yourself what makes me happy, then and only then will you truly know the answer to a simple yet complicated question that has been pondered for thousands of years.
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I just posted an article similar to yours at Diggs, and then saw yours, which is similar. I think you have some good points, too. Mine goes thus:
I have often wondered why God created this world. Eventhough the Books have advanced the reason as "serving God", I still feel puzzled why God would create the world simply for the purpose of making Man serve Him! Are the Angels not serving Him enough?
There must have been other reasons why God felt that we deserved to be created. I daresay one of them was just for the fun of it. God simply felt like 'experimenting' with His mighty powers.
If God had really created us for the purpose of serving Him, what would our serving Him have done for Him? Would our refusal to serve Him have rendered God less powerful? Would our sinful living have detracted from His Grace? Not at all.
Did God create the world for us to enjoy? No, I think. We have to sweat it out to earn a living. Moreover, all the beautiful and sweet things of life are said by our religionists to be harmful to our spiritualism, and hence sinful.
Somebody once theorized that we were created to bear the brunt of the original sins of Adam and Eve! But why would our loving and fair God decide to visit the sins of the progenitors on the innocent descendants? I wish to debunk that theory in totality. God is just and fair and loving and kind.
What then is the more authentic reason for God creating us? I suppose it is a way of making us appreciate Heaven or Paradise when we get there. Hell is here on earth, not elsewhere.
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