If there is a single question taken to be the ultimate philosophical question, it is: what is the meaning of life?

The answer is: the meaning of your life is the meaning you give it as there is no one-size-fits-all thing.

This is a very creative thing which comes about through the identification and pursuit of endeavours that your talents fit you for and your interests draw you to, together with the relationships you form in the process.

Life can be thus very rich in meaning, and not uncommonly is so.

Telling people that the meaning of life is what they make of it is always going to seem, at first, unhelpful. 'Ah what dusty answer gets the soul,' wrote George Meredith, 'when hot for certainties in this life!'; and we are hot to know what is really good, really worthwhile, really meaningful.

To say that meaning is made, not given, and that it is as various as the individuals willing to make it, presents meaning as hard work, not least because the business of thinking seriously about what is good, what is valuable, what one's own talents for the good are and what we should do with them, is exactly what many people do not want to engage in.

Aug 21, 2011 -- 9:52PM, Myownpath wrote:

Aug 16, 2011 -- 8:58AM, JoliverJOLLY wrote:

As stated by a certain lady I spoke with recently, God made everyone for a reason.

Fine,  God decides on that reason, so should a person reject God, they also  then, under this new idea, reject the purpose for which God made  them. 

God and the purpose for a persons creation go together.

It is the idea that, all people have a purpose given by  god, but  that only by excepting god and so giving yourself to god, can a  person  truly fulfil that purpose for which they were created by god. 

 

The  point of this thread was to state that it could be possible that  while  God made us all for a purpose, only with our complience does  that  purpose truly come into effect(excepting that many who reject god  could  still end up doing things god created them for without having  faith in  him).

Ofcourse that grants us the freedom to choose, even if  we are with  God and serving him, a sin could then be seen in another way  also, as a  rejection of what god has asked of us if in that  position(the position  of the kingdom of god and so true life).

 

This is traditional Christianity and not in alignment with New Thought principles. In New Thought, God is indwelling and not out there somewhere. Like it or not, Namchuck's view is in alignment with New Thought views. There is no black board out there somewhere say this is X's purpose. We create our reality. Life is inherently meaningless, we attribute meaning where there is none.

Happy to see you back, Myownpath!

Jun 4, 2012 -- 6:42PM, Bob_Bennett wrote:

I will cite some teachings from A Course In Miracles,as channeled from Jesus from 1965 to 1973.

God created us all as spirit before time and space began, the latter existing only as part of a collective dream that we are all participating in.

Not every competent youur God, is he, Bob?

"Something went wrong" and we began to believe that we had separated from God and so we put our minds to sleep and have been dreaming ever since.

Well, some of us maybe, especially those, though, who advance silly beliefs without a grain of evidence.

OUr collecive purpose is to raise our conscious enough to waken from the dream, something that is coming ever closer with the approach of 12/22/2012.

How many unjustified beliefs is any one person allowed in a post on B'Net?

In the meantime, we just keep reincarnating in a cyclic fashion and our current purpose is to practice true forgiveness in order to awaken from the dream.

How about just a tiny little bit of evidence? Go on, give it a try.

Jun 7, 2012 -- 4:20PM, Bob_Bennett wrote:

To repeat the unnecessary, the info comes from the teachings o Jesus in A Course In Miracles.

It's way too complex for you to understand.

Rather than too complex, I would argue that the problem is actually that it is someone else UPG.