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Topic: Simple Question--Do You Think Life Makes No Sense?
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Ami Anne
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posted May 28, 2012 11:37 AM
  
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mockingbird
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posted May 28, 2012 12:36 PM
I think it makes perfect sense.I can't always (usually) understand the sense it makes, but that doesn't mean that it isn't there. IP: Logged |
sand
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posted May 28, 2012 01:17 PM
I think there is no point but it can have meaning..IP: Logged |
Ami Anne
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posted May 28, 2012 01:43 PM
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Originally posted by sand:
I think there is no point but it can have meaning..
Good way to put it Sand 
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Hera
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posted May 28, 2012 02:28 PM
It didn't use to make sense that it would be so, so, so terrifly unfair and cruel. I am very sensitive to suffering, now perhaps not so much because I grew a tougher skin, but it used to get to me big time and I have raised my fist at God more than I can remember.Reincarnation and karma make sense to me. I have developed my own belief system that makes life bearable. I am not religious anymore but I am spiritual. However, my God might be quite different from other ppl's. It's the only God I can live with.  IP: Logged |
Faith
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posted May 28, 2012 10:44 PM
Lately, no. It makes no sense to me. I feel there is order and beauty and truth on the one side; chaos, violence, and lies on the other hand. They intermingle. But so what? For eternity? Why? *Taking out my megaphone and yelling futilely up to the stars..."WHY?!?"* I don't get it. 'Had a bad day.
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depth
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posted May 29, 2012 02:18 AM
Neither life nor the universe make sense to me. What's the point?  IP: Logged |
PixieJane
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posted May 29, 2012 05:04 AM
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Originally posted by sand:
I think there is no point but it can have meaning..
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RegardesPlatero
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posted May 29, 2012 05:12 AM
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Originally posted by sand:
I think there is no point but it can have meaning..
that's how I tend to see it too IP: Logged |
RegardesPlatero
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posted May 29, 2012 05:14 AM
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Originally posted by Faith:
Lately, no. It makes no sense to me. I feel there is order and beauty and truth on the one side; chaos, violence, and lies on the other hand. They intermingle. But so what? For eternity? Why? *Taking out my megaphone and yelling futilely up to the stars...[b]"WHY?!?"* I don't get it. 'Had a bad day. [/B]
*sorry to hear that you had a bad day! hope that today will be better for you. IP: Logged |
Faith
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posted May 29, 2012 07:04 AM
^ Thanks so much, Platero! IP: Logged |
pandacake
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posted May 29, 2012 04:18 PM
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Originally posted by sand:
I think there is no point but it can have meaning..
Beautifully put, gonna remember this! IP: Logged |
Lonake
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posted May 30, 2012 01:44 AM
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Originally posted by Ami Anne:
That is it--Do you think life makes no sense?
You know how some say that you choose your life before birth. Why would someone choose the life of, say, the man on death row who has just killed himself today - James Lee Crummel. What was the point of that man's existence. And the people who search for some kind of enlightenment here and do their yoga and eat organically and wear their lil red bracelet, blah blah, who's to say they're not gonna come back like good ol' James here and end up tying boys to trees and raping them. I'm not questioning the purpose or the meaning of my life, I know that already, I'm questioning the bigger pic here.IP: Logged |
Mblake81
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posted June 03, 2012 01:52 PM
It's what sense you make out of it.IP: Logged |
Hera
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posted June 03, 2012 03:01 PM
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Originally posted by Lonake:
You know how some say that you choose your life before birth. Why would someone choose the life of, say, the man on death row who has just killed himself today - James Lee Crummel. What was the point of that man's existence. And the people who search for some kind of enlightenment here and do their yoga and eat organically and wear their lil red bracelet, blah blah, who's to say they're not gonna come back like good ol' James here and end up tying boys to trees and raping them. I'm not questioning the purpose or the meaning of my life, I know that already, I'm questioning the bigger pic here.
I have wondered about that too, for a long time. I do think their existence has a point in the collective consciousness, even if it is to raise awareness to the humanity's dark side that most of us too easily sweep it underneath the carpet instead of facing it. It is a reminder that we all have dark sides and a warning to not become like that, if ever tempted (I mean especially those without strong ethical principles). I am too small to draw conclusions, but I'd like to think no life is without purpose, even though not all purposes might be noble or acceptable or good or right... I guess these people exist to challenge us as a whole in the ways we deal and fight the negativity in us and find our way to the light. For example, the Holocaust was a painful and shameful page in our collective book, but some good did come out of it, it brought awareness in the collective mind of what hatred can do and why it should be avoided (granted, some will learn faster and some might resist it). Not that we needed another reminder, or maybe we did - something so shocking you can't pretend it isn't there anymore. I don't know. IP: Logged |
Hera
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posted June 03, 2012 03:02 PM
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Originally posted by Mblake81:
It's what sense you make out of it.
Basically, yes. I agree with this. IP: Logged |
Joy11
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posted June 15, 2012 12:46 PM
I've been into existentialism lately, and I really resonate with the idea that there isn't an inherent "meaning" in life. We all create our own meanings from what existentialists call the "facticity" of life. In other words, facts are facts, they contain no intrinsic meaning. It is the human mind/soul that projects meanings onto these facts. Understanding this has helped me deal with a sense of emptiness. I can create meaning. I don't know if that's the same idea you were getting at, since "making sense" doesn't necessarily imply "meaning," but that's what came to my mind.------------------
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SunChild
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posted June 15, 2012 06:46 PM
Life by default, is a riddle. The mysteries are endless. If one became fascinated or even obsessed by the mysteries then I feel one would at least be able to come to know a few mysteries in a single lifetime. I'm not sure why some people have this desire and some do not, I think it's a state of readiness. a foetus can not do what a child can do, a child can not do what an adult can do and so forth. I think there is a similar process for worldly and spiritual comprehension and the ability to amalgamate the 'two.'Meaning, to me, goes with the creation and evolutionary processes of mind body and spirit. As it is moving and changing that in itself is a pattern that can be interpreted as meaning.
I feel connected with this meaning within me and outside of me. Not knowing everything there is to know about the condition we know as this life gives me an impulse to want to consciously communicate with God & proclaim my readiness for knowledge. Within this design I see great meaning and great adventure. I see so much to look forward to & nothing to resent. 
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Look to the future; see to it that the continual performance of duty under the guidance of a well developed Intuition shall keep the balance well poised. Ah! If your eyes were opened, you might see such a vista of potential blessings to yourselves and mankind lying in the germ of the present hour’s effort, as would fire with joy and zeal your souls!
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RegardesPlatero
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From: Storybrooke, Mr. Gold's Shop
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posted June 15, 2012 06:57 PM
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Originally posted by SunChild:
[...]Not knowing everything there is to know about the condition we know as this life gives me an impulse to want to consciously communicate with God & proclaim my readiness for knowledge. Within this design I see great meaning and great adventure. I see so much to look forward to & nothing to resent.
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SunChild
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posted June 15, 2012 07:07 PM
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Originally posted by SunChild:
Life by default, is a riddle. The mysteries are endless. If one became fascinated or even obsessed by the mysteries then I feel one would at least be able to come to know a few mysteries in a single lifetime. I'm not sure why some people have this desire and some do not, I think it's a state of readiness. a foetus can not do what a child can do, a child can not do what an adult can do and so forth. I think there is a similar process for worldly and spiritual comprehension and the ability to amalgamate the 'two.'
Further on that thought, that is why I think we come here. Like a foetus needs a womb. the conditions are perfect for growth and maturation to be in a state of readiness for perceiving the intangible & tangible environment.
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Look to the future; see to it that the continual performance of duty under the guidance of a well developed Intuition shall keep the balance well poised. Ah! If your eyes were opened, you might see such a vista of potential blessings to yourselves and mankind lying in the germ of the present hour’s effort, as would fire with joy and zeal your souls!
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SunChild
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posted June 15, 2012 07:12 PM
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PixieJane
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posted September 29, 2012 09:50 PM
I'm currently watching Angel: the Series and I thought this summed it up perfectly (if in a metaphoric sense):"Well, I guess I kinda worked it out. If there's no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do. 'Cause that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today. I fought for so long, for redemption, for a reward, and finally just to beat the other guy, but I never got it." "And now you do?" "Not all of it. All I wanna do is help. I wanna help because, I don't think people should suffer as they do. Because, if there's no bigger meaning, then the smallest act of kindness is the greatest thing in the world." IP: Logged |
Ami Anne
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From: Pluto/house next to NickiG
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posted September 30, 2012 11:17 AM
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Originally posted by PixieJane:
I'm currently watching Angel: the Series and I thought this summed it up perfectly (if in a metaphoric sense):"Well, I guess I kinda worked it out. If there's no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do. 'Cause that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today. I fought for so long, for redemption, for a reward, and finally just to beat the other guy, but I never got it." "And now you do?" "Not all of it. All I wanna do is help. I wanna help because, I don't think people should suffer as they do. Because, if there's no bigger meaning, then the smallest act of kindness is the greatest thing in the world."
Very nice. I have been kind of coming to that, myself
I put it on my FB page.
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juniperb
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posted September 30, 2012 11:21 AM
Life is a delightful mystery. Exploring the mystery gives us purpose and direction .------------------
We dance around the ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and Knows
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ail221
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posted September 30, 2012 11:39 AM
I think it's not suppose to make sense for a reason, your suppose to spend your time exploring it in order to find a meaning to it.IP: Logged |
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