whats life..
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Life has no universal purpose, only individual purposes--happiness, justice, kindness, freedom, knowledge, beauty, art, love, self-expression, pleasure, amusement. All these are purposes; a general purpose of life does not exist.
If you ask: What is my purpose? What is his purpose? Why do you do this? What are the things you would like to see in the world? What are your ends of life? What are you ready to sacrifice your life to?--I think these are intelligible questions. But the point of life is simply life.
If you ask: What is my purpose? What is his purpose? Why do you do this? What are the things you would like to see in the world? What are your ends of life? What are you ready to sacrifice your life to?--I think these are intelligible questions. But the point of life is simply life.
i think your right in saying that the point of life IS life...however, saying that there is no universal or general purpose is kind of contradictory to that...
my view on life is that if i wasn't here and living, if i never existed, or if you never existed, or anyone else that posted in this thread or on this board didnt exist.....then nothing would exist, EVERYTHING has an equal purpose in terms of the existense of our universe, right from the largest things right down to the most microscopic organisms.... i believe everything is born, lives and dies (not in necessarily in that order
)so that everything else can be. (i.e the point of life is life)
my view on life is that if i wasn't here and living, if i never existed, or if you never existed, or anyone else that posted in this thread or on this board didnt exist.....then nothing would exist, EVERYTHING has an equal purpose in terms of the existense of our universe, right from the largest things right down to the most microscopic organisms.... i believe everything is born, lives and dies (not in necessarily in that order
)so that everything else can be. (i.e the point of life is life)Just because there are more dimensions doesn't mean we continue to exist in those doesn't mean we actually will. Theoretically, maybe. Also depends on how one defines death. For me, death is when you cease to exist in this world. That is death. When I die, my spirit may linger in the 7th dimension playing chess with Saladin, but for my mates in this life, i'm still dead.
Hence, death is no illusion.
Hence, death is no illusion.
ok, let me put it to you this way man... we made posts in this thread yesterday, yes?....now those posts still exist? we can still view them, right? which means we both existed yesterday...there is proof we existed yesterday..
now if "today we both die".....dont we both still exist yesterday?...therefore we still exist; thats what it is to see in the 4th dimension....the other dimensions like the 7th for example are just other ways of looking at our universe, nothing outside of it......its not 'your spirit playing chess with saladin' hehe....
I refuse the accept the notion that we still exist after death even though we existed before said death. I am reasoning from here and now, not from some abstract perspective. When I die tomorrow, I cease to exist in this world, and even though I existed 20 years that was then and this is now.
You are free to view your time dimension as a giant bowl of soup which you can stir to dig up every moment and thus making your existence eternal. I don't.
You are free to view your time dimension as a giant bowl of soup which you can stir to dig up every moment and thus making your existence eternal. I don't.
Think of your life as a reel of film. The whole reel, the whole film, your whole life exists in the time-space continuum known as the Universe. When you are watching the middle of the film, you know the beginning of it still exists and you know the end exists. When the film ends you still know it exists.
In fact, it's showing in 1000 theatres across the country and it's at all different points in the film. The point at which your life is at now just happens to be the frame that is passing through the aperture where the light can reflect it onto the screen in this particular theatre (timeframe). All you are aware of is this particular point. But the whole film always exists, and your life always exists, whether it's beginning or ending. Hence, the ending of the movie, your life, is a kind of illusion. It ended but it's always playing. It's always there.
In fact, it's showing in 1000 theatres across the country and it's at all different points in the film. The point at which your life is at now just happens to be the frame that is passing through the aperture where the light can reflect it onto the screen in this particular theatre (timeframe). All you are aware of is this particular point. But the whole film always exists, and your life always exists, whether it's beginning or ending. Hence, the ending of the movie, your life, is a kind of illusion. It ended but it's always playing. It's always there.
your definetly on the right track...except for the concepts of 'beginning and ending' they are the illusions, not life itself....they rely on perspective (like i was trying to explain to duke)....its only because our brains see life in a straight line that we consider "the end of the movie" to be the "end"...its perspective....there is no beginning or end.