What do you live for? Whats your philosophy of life?

[human1111]

Hi all,

What do you live for?

Have you ever reflected on life and its reality? Why do we do what we do? I mean all reasonable people have a goal in mind when they do something. We never do things for no reason (unless a person is crazy or is a fool).

We get born, then live 70 or 80 years and we die... Anything that you do will get back to dust. Whatever all the arts, sciences and everything that you accomplish disappears for you, and then for others. Why go through all of it if the end result is zero (when you die) and zero for others when they die? For some little bug with its insignificant life we can deal with. But with humans and all of their accomplishements? Why go through life if it is all for not? Who works for no pay? Life has more disappointments than pleasures. You have to work hard for many hours to enjoy few hours at home... Bad things happen... Good people die while bastards live. Our body is full of problems. We age, we get sick, we expereince pain (emotional, and physical) for what? Pleasure that we expereince is temporary and you could say non existent. The pleasure does not last forever and because of it, afterwards it is almost a zero. For example, sex is one of the biggest physical pleasures that we get. But you feel the climax only for a short time (as with ANY normal pleasure out there). How much are you enjoying the feeling that you had 1 month ago, 1 year, 10 years ago, etc?

No wonder some people commit suicide, as there is often more pain than pleasure in some weird rat race we call "Life" that is like but a dream that ends in 70-80 years...

So what is your philosophy of life?

What do you live for?
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[Kaspar]

I'd say the answer to your question is the straightforward answer of BELIEF. For some its Religion, some its materialism, some its because they're in love etc. I'd say the reason i'm alive is because 1. i've had a really good life so far.

The truth is this question is like "WHATS THE MEANING OF LIFE"

the answer is the meaning of life the reason why people live comes in little bits not one day suddenly the meaning of life comes through your letterbox. An analogy is that your looking for the forest but you can't see there are trees all around you.

Peace

[I, Brian]

Wowsers - quite a negative outlook on life.

Personally, I live for more than just myself.

[ulanda]

good question what do you live for ? some people say that we were created to admire the beauty of our world ? who else can admire it and communicate that and share that as well as us the human race !!! personally i really dont think that we live 70 or 80 years then nothing i think our souls are timeless and will go on and on bouncing from death to life as we evolve through time and space !! we havent uncovered all the magical powers of this world and we never will as nature is forwarned"!! but the human race will evolve and move to other planets coz we still need the desire to sieze and control and destroy all around us which is ours we think for the taking"!!! we are a means to no end" but those greedy bastards will have there souls burnt for eternity and all the worlds governments and its leaders for waging war and negativity and causing our beautiful beautiful planet distress and pain"! but of the good people like you and me will live forever"!!!

Originally Posted by human1111

Hi all,

What do you live for?

Have you ever reflected on life and its reality? Why do we do what we do? I mean all reasonable people have a goal in mind when they do something. We never do things for no reason (unless a person is crazy or is a fool).

We get born, then live 70 or 80 years and we die... Anything that you do will get back to dust. Whatever all the arts, sciences and everything that you accomplish disappears for you, and then for others. Why go through all of it if the end result is zero (when you die) and zero for others when they die? For some little bug with its insignificant life we can deal with. But with humans and all of their accomplishements? Why go through life if it is all for not? Who works for no pay? Life has more disappointments than pleasures. You have to work hard for many hours to enjoy few hours at home... Bad things happen... Good people die while bastards live. Our body is full of problems. We age, we get sick, we expereince pain (emotional, and physical) for what? Pleasure that we expereince is temporary and you could say non existent. The pleasure does not last forever and because of it, afterwards it is almost a zero. For example, sex is one of the biggest physical pleasures that we get. But you feel the climax only for a short time (as with ANY normal pleasure out there). How much are you enjoying the feeling that you had 1 month ago, 1 year, 10 years ago, etc?

No wonder some people commit suicide, as there is often more pain than pleasure in some weird rat race we call "Life" that is like but a dream that ends in 70-80 years...

So what is your philosophy of life?

What do you live for?
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[Sacredstar]

My reason for being is to fulfil the divine plan of my soul in partnership and unity with other soul's. With those that have specifically incarnated on earth during this important time of transition. To co-create the Kingdom of Love, so all children of the earth can reach their fullest potential, in a Kingdom that supports their unique growth, individual awareness and sacred wisdom.

In hand with GOD, walking gracefully side by side in the front line.

GOD's will-to-good compelled by love into compassionate action.

My philosophy is a book long.....

Love beyond measure

Sacredstar

[mirrorinthefog]

I have no clue why I'm here, perhaps there really is no point in it all. My mission is simply to continue existing as long as possible, and to live in harmony with others as much as I can. Whether or not there's a point to it is something I won't know until I'm dead. And if there isn't...well, I won't make a difference to me if I don't exist anymore. lol

[I, Brian]

Good answer, mirror.

If there is one thing I've learned so far, it's that everytime we think we *know* an answer for a certain thing, it means we have blinded ourselves to other applicable answers for the same.

Sometimes just plain admission of uncertainly is the most certain position.

[green lantern]

I live for the future of my dreams to be accomplished for my fulfillment of enjoyment and the benefit of humanity with sharing of process.

My philosophy is living for the present while keep focused with the future. The direction is direct for most people who are specialists, but generalists often follow a zig-zag path forward. The speed of our motion depends on how much our past holds us back. We either forget it and move on; ignore it while it tugs at us; accept it and control its force, or be proactive and resolve the issue so we may move forward faster.

Live life to the fullest and strive every moment to accomplish your personal goals while getting along with others. Help others strive for organizational goals and aid yourself to strive for personal goals. When the two conflict each other, prioritize them. Keep each one significant and work at both regardless the obstacles facing you.

While society places social restraints on things we want or do, commonly implied and accepted widespread, does not mean that we cannot challenge the common rule by minority win, if it was meant to be. For example, a person is 18 and wants to play football at a college. He talks to a coach and explains he never played school football before. The coach may discourage the person by saying we prefer those who played high school. You may even disclose your best asset, but he may respond that your asset is not the only thing you need, but you are still welcome to try out as a walk-on.

Stereotypes provide limitations, but sometimes provide quality. True or false? The point here is that the person asking to try out for the football team has a choice at that point and time to try out or not; however, the coach's negative statement deters the person from trying out so chooses not to. People don't need to accept everything said but adhere in listening to what is being said and what lies deep within oneself.

The same is true for certain jobs with age limitations. Just because the majority follows a path, does not necessarily mean that the majority is true. Now, that doesn't mean that you have to be a rebel but be competitively challenging. If you succeed, then you prove them wrong. If you fail, then you become a statistic. Life has its plan for you.

Deliberation and accidents are all part of the eternal plan for what is held for you in the future. We do have choices. We must be accountable and responsible for our actions, and we need to be socially concern for others.

Predestiny implies an already created soul who chooses to enter a physical body to live out a planned life. Destiny implies the created soul at the time of the reproduced body to live out a planned life at our control. Fate has its part when short-term events interrupts our pathway out of our control. It is up to you in your belief. I believe all is possible, for there may be a purpose for each of these events to take place, especially if a spiritual correction needs to take place on the predestiny or fate part.

Learn all the historical philosophies of humanity. Develop your own philosophy and changing as you go through life from learning life experiences. Adapting with past philosophies into integration with your life. It is an ongoing, situational process.

[aladdin]

You might like that movie "I heart huckabees". It is really good and some of your questions made me think of this film.

Also,Hamlet, what you wrote reminds me of Hamlet. Remember Hamlets speech about "What is this quintessence of dust?" He is like---This o'erhanging firmament this majestical roof fretted with golden fire,,,why it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours (it shows how you can see the world through different perspectives)...what a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties in form and in moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in admiration how like a God! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?)))

Well, I think a lot of people don't think about this question you asked. Girls orgasms last a lot longer than guys btw but anyway

Some People seem to be caught up in superficial goals or proving themselves to be something or what not, keeping up with some "mask" or "identity" they have created for themselves.

Also, they might be living for their children or their family members and taking care of them.

Also, they might just be in such dire straights they are following their instinct to live, they do not even have time to reflect upon philosophical questions such as the one you phrased.

II am reading this good book by Marcus Aurelius it is called like "Advice for Emperor's" or something, it is a newer translation , anyway

In it he says, imagine if you could fly up above the earth in the stars and the clouds and look down upon us and what would you think of us and our desires and our "toiling away" or what have you? What would you think? I just thought this question was pretty good, I never really thought of it this way

This might sound dumb or cheesey but the other day I had that Oasis song stuck in my head the lyrics are like this:
Maybe I don’t really want to know
How your garden grows
I just want to fly
Lately did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks it to the bone

Maybe I just want to fly
I want to live I don’t want to die
Maybe I just want to breath
Maybe I just don’t believe
Maybe you’re the same as me
We see things they’ll never see
You and I are gonna live forever

Maybe I don’t really want to know
How your garden grows
I just want to fly
Lately did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks it to the bone

Maybe I will never be
All the things that I want to be
But now is not the time to cry
Now’s the time to find out why
I think you’re the same as me
We see things they’ll never see
You and I are gonna live forever
We’re gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Live forever
Forever
Im aware a lot of people don't have the privelege of looking at the world this way but anyway, I would personally love to do a lot of nonprofit and humanitarian things myself right now but I have to become more independent and can not risk spending a lot of time on this right now because I just got out of quite a negative situation and can not risk being very vulnerable..haha too much information


BUT i think if you do not have set goals in your life or are very religious or have a cause or a superficial or meaningful desire than why not like go off to some foreign country (one with an embassy &/or a lot of human rights) and just try to have an adventure? Maybe that is the point of life. You can choose whatever youw ant to believe in and you can find this out in different ways, by doing things, books might give you information but they dont give you the knowledge You are seeking

[Blue]

Originally Posted by mirrorinthefog

I have no clue why I'm here, perhaps there really is no point in it all. My mission is simply to continue existing as long as possible, and to live in harmony with others as much as I can. Whether or not there's a point to it is something I won't know until I'm dead. And if there isn't...well, I won't make a difference to me if I don't exist anymore. lol

That is a brilliant statement, Mirror In The Fog.
It is certainly one I concur with whole-heartedly - and with reason.

[Friend]

Salaam to all


Questions Guide me to may God

When I was a child I was hearing that we live in a globular earth, this made me always asking my parents and my teachers, where we live in this globular earth? Are we inside it or a round it? And if we a round it, Why we don’t fall?

After I hear the answers about the effect of gravitation on earth, another question came to my mind, is it by a chance that we can live in this earth because of gravitation? Or there were a great power created this effect for certain purpose?

I saw much kind of people all of us consist of the same structure, but how we are different in the outside shape? Also who create this different? And why?

When I was grown-up I read that the sun is far from the earth in a constant distance when earth move on it's path around the sun, and if it is move a few centimeters in any direction this may cause a destruction of the earth and the life on it.

Consequently, I ask my self which keep the sun to be in this farness? And why?

The sunlight is being filtered by layers of gases, this help to get rid of a bad effect of the sunlight upon the life on the earth and protecting us from the violet ray. Who create these layers of gases? Is it by accident?

The human being and the animal have similar anatomic construction, but we have a different mind, as a human being we are thinking, also we have conscience and sympathy etc…

How we are different from the animals?

We are living in this earth from many millions of years ago, Why those animals didn’t developed to be like us (or even half of us)?

Still, I have many another questions ............

All this questions tell me that there are one creator, and even I can't see him I can see his power and his blessing and benefactions .If any one give me any help I must thank him, so what I should be doing to my God??????

Thanks to all

[Faithfulservant]

That was a beautiful post Friend.. I hope you continue to find peace love and joy in your life as you seek to be enlightened in your faith. Mine is much like yours in living my life for God.

Faithful Servant

[Friend]

Originally Posted by Faithfulservant

That was a beautiful post Friend.. I hope you continue to find peace love and joy in your life as you seek to be enlightened in your faith. Mine is much like yours in living my life for God.

Faithful Servant

Thank you my friend "Faithfulservant" ,I hope that for you too.

[Ryuuko]

Originally Posted by Sacredstar

My reason for being is to fulfil the divine plan of my soul in partnership and unity with other soul's. With those that have specifically incarnated on earth during this important time of transition. To co-create the Kingdom of Love, so all children of the earth can reach their fullest potential, in a Kingdom that supports their unique growth, individual awareness and sacred wisdom.

In hand with GOD, walking gracefully side by side in the front line.

GOD's will-to-good compelled by love into compassionate action.

My philosophy is a book long.....

Love beyond measure

Sacredstar

What SacredStar said. LOL! (Thanks SacredStar!)

[Sacredstar]

Dear aladdin

Your post reminded me of a beautiful quote from Archangel Michael

"Self development is about teaching the soul to fly!"

May everyone's soul fly and heart sing........

Ah.....Ryuuko aligned with your soul's purpose and reason for being, that is the meaning of life.

Love beyond measure

Sacredstar