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Special; What?!
Topic Started: 19 Aug 2010, 09:45 PM (3,257 Views)
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No, I know that God does not give a flying crap about me. I am not special, and I have no reason to be. Therefore, we are not all special to God. Please post your opinions about this here.


@Vampira - heres my beleif for ya - in my opinon which youve asked about -Jesus is the evidence as to why we are all speacil to God-so he died and went to hell and rose again-he overcame death and bore the consequences of our sin as that through him we have acsess to eternal life with God if we so choose.

so you say you know that God does not give a flying crap about you or could it be that you beleive he doesnt but he really does?

also my opinion is that you arent alive because of a random oddity
You are lovingly created on purpose with purpose for a purpose the discovery of which holds the keys to your motivation for and meaning of life.
your trust in your creator and reliance on him in all matters rise above the circumstances of your life and is the true meaning and experiance of joy-so this relationship with God we instinctivly search for
and the invitation is avaiable to all .....


Edited by Luemas, 24 Aug 2010, 01:37 PM.
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@Vampira:
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I am not special, and I have no reason to be.
Though I agree with most of what you're saying, I want to nitpick on that particular statement. (And our opinions may not be so different on this one either, since you wrote "Though I am glad to be alive.", in a later post).

You see, I think you are special, and that you have a good reason to be considered special. And I'm not just talking about the way you are special because you mean something to other people (like me), I'm talking about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac33dOAgqus (WARNING: video includes a non-theist)
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Haha "Le Gasp!" :D
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^o) mmm Luemas are you editing my spelling mistakes ! :D
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awww, thank you. ;) :D

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No, I'm pretty sure he doesn't care. I don't just believe he doesn't.

Back to Concolor-
I am glad to be alive, but life doesn't really mean that much to me. Get it?
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@Vampira: I think I get it, we just have slightly different alignments.
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@Arazec It was just a little mistake... It didn't hurt to fix...

Uh...

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I'm sure we do. But when you think about how big the universe is, and how simple and completely useless human life is, it makes you think about how useless I am. I mean, I've never done anything important, what point does life have?
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@Vampira: I agree that as humans, we should be humble enough to acknowledge our insignificance to the universe, as Carl Sagan points out when he's talking about a picture of the earth taken by a space probe while passing Saturn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g

You say you have never done anything important, but who are you comparing yourself with? As you pointed out, as far as the universe is concerned none of us have ever done anything of importance. In the vastness of the universe you and Alexander the Great, are equally unimportant. His impact on the universe is just as small and insignificant as yours. And so I think we have shown quite clearly that trying to find the meaning of life on a scale of the universe is a difficult task indeed. Perhaps we should be humble enough to accept that our lives may have meaning on a smaller scale?

Are humans "useless"? To the universe, perhaps, but not to each other. You asked what point does life have. When I look for meaning in my life I don't look up to the sky or down into ancient texts. I look around me.

Have you ever had help from someone when you needed it? Have you ever talked to someone who inspired you? Have you ever heard a piece of music that touched your heart? Have you ever held someone in you arms and felt the intoxicating feeling of love surge through your body? Have you ever shown kindness to a stranger, and seen the look on their face as they are filled with light and warmth by the action that seemed so small to you but so large to them?

Every now and then we get the chance to help others. For some of us, the point of life is to seek out these chances and try to learn enough to make them count as much as we can, and otherwise enjoy the ride.

Each and every one of us has a responsibility to find our own meaning in life, we all have different abilities and alignments, and these may also change over time. Some choose to adopt a ready-made meaning of life that someone else has prepared, while others seek out their own path. My answer to your question is thus: If you could choose freely, what point would you want your life to have?
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Speak it, brotha. Amen, amen.
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an excellent question....

What point would you want your life to have?
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i know what i would choose.

yes, that's right: score 3,333,360 at Pac-man, the maximum score possible.
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Conradw! Nice to see you around, I've been wondering where you were.

Concolor, to me, life means nothing.I have a love, yes, but that is not the meaning of my life. Nor is anything in my life.
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