hallenrm Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 Perhaps the following link will satisfy you!!!! http://spirituality.indiatimes.com/articleshow/13942.cms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racoon Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 Perhaps the following link will satisfy you!!!! http://spirituality.indiatimes.com/articleshow/13942.cms In that regard HallenRM, The purpose of life is to reach the stage of Enlightenment or Nirvana :xx: Which takes many lifetimes!! :lol:Then you can be free from the painful cycle of re-incarnation. The purpose of life is not the destination, but the journey... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallenrm Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 The Purpose of Life IS NOT TO DIE!! :rainbow: That raises a very fundamental question then "What is it to die":confused: Perhaps the following quotes from my morning newspaper help!!! ................... Death is visibly a psychophysical disintegration but it cannot reduce our existence to a dead end; rather it opens a different state of consciousness no longer circumscribed by the limitations of the body-mind complex. .................... Extensive neuropsychological research on patients with near-death experience has shown that they experience an expanding consciousness while their brains register no activity at all. A majority think a hundred times faster with greater clarity than is humanly possible. They go back to their childhood days and experience an intense connection with everything and everyone around them instantly or before. It is now empirically proved that people can think and feel when they are clinically unconscious due to acute pancerebral ischemia. This has opened the floodgate of fundamental questions: “Is consciousness dependent on our physical existence or does it continue beyond death of the body as well? Who observes the self and surroundings while the body lies on the table? What is death? How does our identity continue beyond physical death in the context of postmortem consciousness? Death therefore cannot mean the end of consciousness. Consciousness is separate from body and it survives beyond death. During our waking state the consciousness is limited to psychological reality but after death the waking consciousness is exposed to many more realities. M N KUNDU in Times of India, 4 Apr. 2006 How's that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queso Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 In realistic terms, yes. However, I am a realist when it comes to nature. You can't decide you want to survive a tornado when it sucks you up. You do have the free will to decide you want to attempt escaping from it, though. That free will you are talking about is really just chemical processes in your brain reacting to actions.and those actions are really reactions,from actions reacting. If you don't catch my driftit's because it is inevitable,if you do, greeeat. we aren't special and we can talk about that. Boerseun 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boerseun Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 Well, uh... that is, ummmm... ahhh... I was viewing the website showing a nude Britney Spears giving birth, http://www.caplakesting.com/2006_catalog/de/index.htmand playing with "mister happy". Is that a good excuse?? :hihi:NO WAY!!! The Pro-lifers use a pregnant semi-sentient being (Britney) to illustrate their point, but some poor bear must get killed in the process?!!??!?!? The only thing worse than a dumb blonde is a pregnant dumb blonde. And the only thing worse than a pregnant dumb blonde is a pregnant dumb blonde clutching the top part of a decapitated bear. I'm sure that sculpture wouldn't have made the papers if the pic was taken from behind. Ewwwwwww... Pregnant plaster porn... (Does that look like a 32C to you?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 NO WAY!!!...The only thing worse than a dumb blonde is a pregnant dumb blonde....Pregnant plaster porn...(Does that look like a 32C to you?)Yes, way.I agree totally. This is what civilization has come to.Why is it that whenever I look at that sculpture, I keep thinking of Hopalong Cassidy and his ten gallon hat? :hihi: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boerseun Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 How about this: The Purpose of Life is the eternal search for Freedom. And not 'freedom' in the over-used political sense, but real, tangible, personal freedom. Pitching up at work one day, a few hours late, after having had a leisurely breakfast, and telling your boss to shove it, is Freedom. Going out on a limb by yourself to earn a living on your own terms is one step in that direction. VIVA FREEDOM!!! Going into town, but-naked because you simply don't like restrictive clothing, is Freedom!Building yourself an off-road vehicle from an old engine, a busted gearbox and a heck of a lot of tubing, is Freedom! (Having to learn to weld in the process is part of the price you have to pay for freedom, however...)Not watching television and using the saved time for more productive things is Freedom!Not being interested not influenced by modern, popular so-called music, is Freedom!Bullshitting the National Parks Authority that you're busy shooting a movie that need to include a sunrise from a specific mountaintop in a reserve where everybody needs to be gone by 5:00pm, and you get to pitch a tent and braai there, sleep there, and get up on top of a mountain is Freedom!Driving from Hartbeespoort to Zeerust in the buff, butt-nekkid, is Freedom!Not having to sit in rush-hour traffic anymore is Freedom! Oh, lemme shut up. Sweet, sweet freedom! I think this might even justify its own thread. Hahaha... stay tuned... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToyCollectingGuru Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Here's a theory you guys can pick apart if you can read more than 3 lines of text. This is my theory of life. Imagine a simple circle with a marker at the top, lets say the 12 oclock position.This marker repsresents your birth and also you death. The circle repsresents your lifespan and lets say it's 120 years. The life you live is the circle and when you die you return to the start. You are born again the say day, the time, the same date as the same person with the same name, same parents etc.Everything is the same except as you grow you take different paths and make different decisions. You don't remember the previous times you've lived this life Except the time when you experience Deja-Vu and it happens almost daily but you don't think much of it.The only thing you can do is live and make different decisions. Now imagine that circle again, everytime you take a different path the circle changes it's position. Try using a program like bryce 3D or even draw it and simulate a point on the circle when you die and draw a line back to the start, repeat it over and over from different positions and you'll be suprised what the diagram will draw. Lateral Use of the mind has become an outdated practise in todays society, centuries ago people like Socrates and Michelanglo devoted their lives to discovering the meaning. We today don't worry about it, we have bigger issues to deal with, mainly whether to watch the Fight on Fox or the Racing on Espn. But I believe we are surrounded by people in society who have worked it out and I can bet they aren't millionares or own Playboy magazine.But sadly that's what we associate with being happy. Human beings need to evolve into something more than what we are now.Personally I think we've gone backwards rather than forwards when it comes to what our minds can really do. Pick away guys and lets see some brain power.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallenrm Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Lateral Use of the mind has become an outdated practise in todays society, centuries ago people like Socrates and Michelanglo devoted their lives to discovering the meaning. Pick away guys and lets see some brain power.... Here is an example of another person, who is said to be born today, he is known as Lord/Sage Mahavira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Here's a theory you guys can pick apart if you can read more than 3 lines of text. This is my theory of life.Not a very good first post Toy collector. :doh: A bit like arriving at a party and pissing on the carpet immediately upon walking in, then saying, "Yeah, let's party! Whooo." Basically, while everyone is entitled to their own opinion, your post reaked of biased and opinionated generalizations and unfocussed emotion. Again, opinions are okay, but supporting information is always better. You might take this into consideration with any future posts you make here. Cheers. :unlove: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Here's a theory you guys can pick apart ...Imagine a simple circle with a marker at the top, lets say the 12 oclock position. This marker represents your birth and also your death. ...The only thing you can do is live and make different decisions...Yes, no doubt we can pick it apart. It wouldn't be difficult. It's actually not a "theory" is it? Because it doesn't explain anything. It doesn't really answer the question, "what is the purpose of life"? Draw a circle, connect lines from 12-o'clock position to random points centered about the 6-o'clock position. Fine. Yawn. The 8 Great Purposes of life are:to spread life throughout the Universe, to conquer fear and misery,to become educated and enlightened,to maintain high real estate values,to create the perfect single-malt whiskey,to create cultural diversity with peace and prosperity for all,to create more and better ways of destroying...well, anything,and to go where no sentient being has gone before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panjandrum Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 The purspose of life is to persue and preserve your autonomy at all costs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boerseun Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 The purpose of my life is to toil away in order to make enough money to buy a piece of empty land in the middle of nowhere so that I can blow **** up without asking anybody's permission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldsoftwaresteve Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 Lol. Beorseun, you need to get further away from the explosions, they're wrecking your teeth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 The purpose of my life is....The purpose of my life is to love a woman so well that she truly believes that I am the finest man in the world. Celeste 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagnetMan Posted April 15, 2006 Report Share Posted April 15, 2006 To uncover the enlightened Buddha within Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted April 25, 2006 Report Share Posted April 25, 2006 Beorseun: I'll be dipped. I Totally agree with you! :Alien:I would like to add just one little tiny thing: life exists because it must, because it's driven into existence by the very nature of existence and if it has a purpose, that purpose is to bring balance to something that we don't yet comprehend.Cheers.Our purpose in life is to do what our genes tell us to do- REPLICTE ME!We are just a vessel for the genes and bacteria to get on with whatever it is that they are doing. On the MEANING of life I thought Douglas Adams summed it all up.He said it was "42"Michael :hyper: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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