Why We Are Here

[cammie]

I believe the existance of humans on earth is to learn spiritual lessons with each reincarnated lifetime until we are spiritually elevated enough to reside in heaven with our Creator.

[cammie]

In other words: live life, do good, do unto others, shut up, then go home.

[sandywinder]

I believe our lives are totally meaningless and purposeless, created by the accidental mixing of chemicals.

Either that or we are all part of a massive computer game.

[pumpkinette]

We're here to make the world as better as we can as long as we live, ie., be activists. Even if we're only activists in 1 area is wonderful. I also believe we're here to prepare for the afterlife and that God is always testing us during life to see our true spiritual state. I think doing this is glorifying God and that we also glorify Him through our works to help make the world better. This includes helping those in need, whether it's with money, food, etc. We can also help people with words and caring. Helping doesn't HAVE to be material. I also think that whatever traumas we go through that we have a DUTY to help others who have just come through the same kind of traumas. OK, that's enough from preacher Pumpkin for now! ;D

[mcgruff]

I ask myself thsi question everyday I don't think it'll ever come to pass but I think humanity needs to get it thru it's thick skull that the Human race is a family and that all nations not just 1 are under God

Jeff

[mindy]

Jan 7, 2009 14:20:24 GMT pumpkinette said:

We're here to make the world as better as we can as long as we live, ie., be activists. Even if we're only activists in 1 area is wonderful. I also believe we're here to prepare for the afterlife and that God is always testing us during life to see our true spiritual state. I think doing this is glorifying God and that we also glorify Him through our works to help make the world better. This includes helping those in need, whether it's with money, food, etc. We can also help people with words and caring. Helping doesn't HAVE to be material. I also think that whatever traumas we go through that we have a DUTY to help others who have just come through the same kind of traumas. OK, that's enough from preacher Pumpkin for now! ;D

I agree with you! I do try to live my life this way.

I've asked myself this question too. I really don't know why we are here. Sometimes I think it's only to suffer and work hard. Other times I see a glimpse of something better, something happier, like love.

[mcgruff]

Preacher Pumpkin?

[Alpha Hooligan]

Jan 7, 2009 12:02:28 GMT sandywinder said:

I believe our lives are totally meaningless and purposeless, created by the accidental mixing of chemicals.

Either that or we are all part of a massive computer game.

I like to think we are a giant simulation created by superior beings myself...it's a frightening thought though eh?

Anyways, ya get born, then ya die, the bit in the middle is called life. Live it.


AH

[drewsmom595]

I believe there is a Divine purpose to every life...no matter how short. And we are here to learn spiritual lessons, grow, help others and make the world a better place.

[pumpkinette]

Jan 7, 2009 15:33:35 GMT mcgruff said:

Preacher Pumpkin?

That's what I call myself when I can go on and on (and on... ) about this kind of stuff. ;D If my time weren't limited, my posts on these subjects would be even longer!

[chefmate]

What if the matrix is true and we are part of it?

I have no clue why we are here because none of it seems to fair......just ask the refugees in Darfar or other places in the world where God crapped on them big time with starvation, disease or pestulance and then throw in a few natural disasters or wars and I bet they just want to sit around singing kumbaya my lord for their miserable lives.

[drewsmom595]

Jan 10, 2009 8:09:46 GMT @chefmate said:

What if the matrix is true and we are part of it?

I have no clue why we are here because none of it seems to fair......just ask the refugees in Darfar or other places in the world where God crapped on them big time with starvation, disease or pestulance and then throw in a few natural disasters or wars and I bet they just want to sit around singing kumbaya my lord for their miserable lives.

I've learned there are some things which are beyond human understanding. Life doesn't seem fair a lot of times. Bad things do happen to good people. The crazy drunk driver almost always survives the car accident that he caused, but the innocents don't. I could go on and on.

I do think human suffering exists for others to take action to alleviate it. If we see someone in trouble, the right thing to do is to lend a hand or try to help in whatever way you can.

[cammie]

Human suffering has GOT to be a test of faith. There is NO excuse for being evil or greedy. Perhaps we suffer in order to appreciate the good more fully. I see ppl who have easy lives, are spoiled, have everything material given to them, no personal tramas, no loss of loved ones (yet) and I believe they have not evolved spiritually enough to survive the true tests of adversity, tramas and hardships. ___________________ We choose our paths before we arrive on this negative planet.

[chefmate]

I don't buy into choosing our paths before we get here; it is utter nonsence to me.

This planet is negative but there is alot of positive to counteract the negative but I just can't buy that someone like Carolyn for examply would chose a life filled with loved ones being taken away from her for no darn reason whatsoever other than shyt happens theory.

[mikemarshall]

Unlike the majority of my fellow humanists, I've experienced a number of sufficiently strange events to make me not rule out altogether the possibility of some kind of survival of physical death. I still lean towards the extinction hypothesis as being on balance more probable but I do not dismiss the possibility of immortality as absolutely as some of my fellow believers.

Chefmate is absolutely correct in that if we had a choice about our lives all sane people would choose a life of peace, contentment and possibly also comfort and ease rather than the less attractive realities which so many of us endure unwillingly.

Reincarnation is a problem on many levels. I have met a few people who claim to have been reincarnated and it immediately struck me how they were all either famous historical characters or at least a higher social class than they presently were.

In India, it has become almost a cottage industry for parents from low-caste Hindu families to train their young children to claim to be reincarnations of Brahmins.

I find the whole concept more problematic than the simple mechanism of survival, which, even though it is hard for me to accept, is marginally more plausible as a mechanism than the metempsychosis hypothesis.

[swl]

You're all here to entertain me.

[Big Lin]

Hm, you and Jumbo are going to get along well, swl.

[swl]

Me and Jumbo are best mates. Aren't we Jumbo?

[cammie]

In a life of contentment, comfort and ease... what possible spiritual lessons would one learn? Perhaps it is the more diffficult, the hardest, most tramatic lives that are endured under grace that lay evidence of true faith and spiritual growth.

[♫anna♫]

There is a saying "The Way is the Goal"! In other words all the talk about why, meaning or meaninglessness is not really that important! The "WAY" you are going is important! Either you move in a positive direction towards the "light" or you discover the addictiveness of evil "darkness" and go that way!

I think most of us have certain "dark vices", but if we are moving in the right direction more often than the wrong direction that spiritual guidance will become stronger!

[cammie]

Good post Anna! Some are on the white path but get off on the wrong exits, get lost, then find their way back.

[mikemarshall]

Welcome back, Cammie!

[Ben Lomond]

Jan 7, 2009 2:59:42 GMT cammie said:

I believe the existance of humans on earth is to learn spiritual lessons with each reincarnated lifetime until we are spiritually elevated enough to reside in heaven with our Creator.

Yeah. But who would want to live in heaven with such a cruel and manifestly racist creator? Or on a more practical note, who in their right mind can actually believe in reincarnation? Whatever you are smoking must be pretty good shit!

[lawrence]

Jan 19, 2009 1:41:53 GMT cammie said:

In a life of contentment, comfort and ease... what possible spiritual lessons would one learn? Perhaps it is the more diffficult, the hardest, most tramatic lives that are endured under grace that lay evidence of true faith and spiritual growth.

We make mistakes, so that we can have better experiences.

[mikemarshall]

But if we do not learn from our mistakes, we are perpetually doomed to create a world of ever increasing misery!