What is life to you?

[Trailblazer]

Do you wish ill will on others? I rest my case.

No, I certainly don't wish ill will or anyone...
I am just trying to prevent people from feeling hurt.
When you say "Life is a great blessing" and some people don't feel blessed, that could make them feel worse.

 

[Jimmy]

No, I certainly don't wish ill will or anyone...
I am just trying to prevent people from feeling hurt.
When you say "Life is a great blessing" and some people don't feel blessed, that could make them feel worse.

Or better

 

[Jimmy]

No, I certainly don't wish ill will or anyone...
I am just trying to prevent people from feeling hurt.
When you say "Life is a great blessing" and some people don't feel blessed, that could make them feel worse.

What’s the title of this thread? I rest my case

 

[Trailblazer]

Or better

No, it doesn't work that way.

 

[Trailblazer]

What’s the title of this thread? I rest my case

Fair enough. I spoke out of turn since I forgot the thread title.

 

[Truthseeker]

No, it doesn't work that way.

It doesn't work that way for some, like you first said. "that could make them feel worse." Could.

 

[kadzbiz]

....... Did I live the best I can?

How can one ever answer that? What would one compare it to? What even is "best"?

 

[Twilight Hue]

What reason is there to think that there was a last time around?
I do not believe in reincarnation. I believe that the soul comes into existence at the time of conception.
Reincarnation makes absolutely no sense to me because there is absolutely NO REASON why we would ever need to come back to this world....
We will continue to progress in the next world so we don't need to come back here to progress.

We have one chance to get it right and that is fair. If for any reason our life is cut short of we are unable to do what is needed to prepare our lives in the the next world there will be a recompense from God in the next world.

I have the impression your thinking a soul is a conscious being that lives and has memories. You did say it functions mentally and physically.

If that was the case, you would remember things as a soul if it thinks on its own without a body and brain, and it dosent make any sense being something that controls the body and mind where it's 'housed' which it can't be.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

How can one ever answer that? What would one compare it to? What even is "best"?

I won’t know how I’ll feel about my life in my final moments until I get to my final moments. But at least I can ask myself how I feel about my life and how I lived now.

The best way I can, by that I mean, the best way I knew how. I don’t focus on what ifs.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I won’t know how I’ll feel about my life in my final moments until I get to my final moments. But at least I can ask myself how I feel about my life and how I lived now.

The best way I can, by that I mean, the best way I knew how. I don’t focus on what ifs.

I experienced the feelings of those final moments when I had my heart attack thinking this could be it.

At least I'm 'blessed' in knowing when it actually happens, I know what to expect and am prepared.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

I experienced the feelings of those final moments when I had my heart attack thinking this could be it.

At least I'm 'blessed' in knowing when it actually happens, I know what to expect and am prepared.

Has that experience changed the way you lived?

 

[Twilight Hue]

Has that experience changed the way you lived?

It's sweeter. Like the story of the Monk and the Strawberry.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

It's sweeter. Like the story of the Monk and the Strawberry.

I’m not familiar with it

 

[Twilight Hue]

I’m not familiar with it

parable of the monk, the tiger, and the strawberry…

A monk was traveling across a field and he encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger chasing after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over th…

themettagarden.com

 

[The Sum of Awe]

parable of the monk, the tiger, and the strawberry…

A monk was traveling across a field and he encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger chasing after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over th…

themettagarden.com

Ok I have heard that one before. I can’t help but think its message could be interpreted as hedonism and living only for the pleasures in life, no?

 

[RestlessSoul]

What is real?
What is life?
What is truth?

Paradoxically, it's when we understand that these questions are unanswerable, that our human experience begins to make sense. Or so it seems to me.

 

[ChristineM]

Life to me is a stroke of luck. That my parents decided to do the deed at that particular time. The sperm fertilised the egg that was to become me.

After that it's a matter if doing the best i can do to make the best of my life and pass that on to those around me.

 

[Aupmanyav]

One thing I know is even though I always want and strive for more, which is only natural as a human, I am also grateful for what I have. And with what I have, the simple things, I live as many moments as I can as if I will reflect on those specific moments at the time of my death. And I’ll ask myself - am I happy with how I lived my life? Did I live the best I can?

I do not know if people have lived their life the best they could. That depends on the views of the person. Life and personhood are temporary phenomena. A time comes when they are no more. So, yes. Try to live as best according to your views, since there is only one life. One does not get a second shot at it.

 

[Aupmanyav]

What is real?
What is life?
What is truth?

Paradoxically, it's when we understand that these questions are unanswerable, that our human experience begins to make sense. Or so it seems to me.

To me these questions are answerable. What is real is the web of physical energy that constitutes all things in the universe. That is the truth.
Life is the emergent property of physical energy.

 

[Aupmanyav]

We will continue to progress in the next world so we don't need to come back here to progress.

Next world will scatter the molecules of your body all over the place.