Meaning of Life

[Mark]

The question is psychobabble in my opinion. There is no 'meaning'.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y32e5-ORoP0[/media]

I don't necessarily agree with what is written, but is cool song.

[Kelly]

What do you think the purpose or meaning of life is?

The meaning of life is to be of service to others as a means of garnering satisfaction and happiness for yourself in return. It's called the law of reciprocity. The more kindness I extend to others for no reason, the more I receive in return.

It always works this way.

[Kelly]

That is not my definition of self actualization. There is nothing in that definition that I would assert or embrace as a personal quest.

So would that make it de-nihilism? :laugh:

[Sal]

My wife and I are polar opposites. She is French and I am normal. We share nothing in common.

As such, she believes in past lives and recently went to have a reading where she learned that I was once a gladiator and a samurai and even dragged her out west on an ox drawn wagon with clanging pots which apparently is why she has difficulty with that type of noise today.

The central theme is I have always been male. Often a warrior and apparently, whenever she is in female form we often link up and I drag her away from her family. (I'm also supposed to be an old soul whatever that is)

Well she sounds like an individual willing to explore what would be considered to be bizarre to most. I like her already. :blum:

An old soul means that you have been upon the earth many times.

Most switch sexes since we are essentially "sexless" beings and as such like to experience both to give us different perspectives.

It is my belief that we travel with a partnered soul usually but not always. Mr Sal and I have been together almost from the beginning although he is on a higher level than me meaning he has progressed "further" and thus is more enlightened than I although he would disagree.

Your wife would likely tell you that your comfort zone together even though you appear to be polar opposites comes from a trust developed by being and travelling together over the millennium. You have proved yourselves to each other. I would agree with her.

Each life it doesn't matter what our believe structure is (Christian, Hindu, etc.) only how much we grow and evolve through "giving". Giving is the easiest way to evolve or move forward.

To me this is pure bunk.

But none the less it makes you curious and the fact that you are with a woman who believes such makes you "wonder".

Mr. Sal is an evangelical Christian and as such was pretty much on the bunk end of things when I first met him over a decade ago. He was still attracted and thus willing to stifle his doubts and allow me the freedom to explore without ridicule.

Now after over ten years of hearing what my "guide" has predicted and seeing how we know so much before it actually happens, he concedes that it is uncanny and not of this world.

He now quietly accepts my views of energy, and enlightenment and the "work" we must do on ourselves in this life.

For real though Grain, it might all be bullshit. We might just wink out and die. I don't believe that we will. But we certainly might because truth and belief are not the same thing.

But I am genuinely curious as to why you believe? Is it a comfort thing? Does it help for you to rationalize your existence? Cope with your mortality?

I don't know why I believe Grain. I have explored many different avenues of thought and belief over the last half century. During that time I have gone from Christian, to reborn Christian and now what I would term as my own personal belief.

While the structure has changed I have never once doubted that there was a higher power. I have questioned what that higher power was and what it wanted from us but somehow I just know there is something that is conscious and aware of us and a part of us.

I don't feel a need to rationalize my existence since I believe I chose to be. I write my own way each life. I believe all of us do. It's the only thing which justifies hunger and sickness and the agony of being human. We choose it before we come here. We learn, we grow and return home. Sometimes we choose horrendous circumstances in order to assist others so that others can help us and thus move up a level.

Rather than comfort me, although it does comfort me, my belief structure demands of me that I try in each and every circumstance to do the right thing; to do what is the best and of the highest order. That is what I strive for daily. Sometimes I do well. Other times, not so much. But when I do what is right, I know that is when I find peace and contentment.

I strive daily always to find "balance" in all that I do.

My guide will often tell me "things to come". He has never been wrong except for the time line. I always tell someone what I have been told of the future because I always doubt that it will happen. But it always does happen as I have been told.

We live our life by this now and I guess you could say what I get out of it first and foremost is a sense of peace, contentment and feeling like I am always on solid ground. Yeah, if anything, that's what I get out of it........certainty.

Wow, thanks Grain. That was a good process you lead me through.

I don't know what level your wife is on, she may not think as I do, but I am willing to bet that if you tell her what I have written, she will "get it".

There are a few others here on site who will also "get" what I have written although they do not necessarily think quite the same way.

So something else I get from my belief is a sense of connection with "like" souls. Our beliefs may not even be the same but they will understand as I understand them. "connection happens" and that is one of the most important occurrences between humans.

[triedit]

One of my major 'purposes' is to leave my mark on each and every canvas. Its something Ive been obsessed with all my life--the endless struggle to never be forgotten.

I need to go back into therapy.

[OldPhart]

One of my major 'purposes' is to leave my mark on each and every canvas. Its something Ive been obsessed with all my life--the endless struggle to never be forgotten.

I need to go back into therapy.

There is no doubt that I will be forgotten at some time after I'm gone.

My drive is more to be remembered by those that I loved and left behind. May they smile and remember me in a way that I would be happy to be thought of.

Life is not complicated, it's the small details of everyday living that makes us confused, resentful, and (too often) miserable.

[Sal]

I intend to outlive all those that know me. Thus I will be quite happy to be forgotten with my last breath. :laugh: