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Re: On Purpose

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, September 18 2015, 17:05:54 (UTC)
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...oh, well said.

Once upon a time you were born into a world, in the West, which gave you very few options on how to survive....you were either born into the aristocracy or the peasantry, and later, the artisan class....there wasn't much else for a body to do....these days you can work at any number of jobs and professions...you can even set up a company making the small plastic ends that go over the tips of shoelaces...but the challenge is the same...."who are you"?

From the moment we're born, wherever and whenever and to whomever we are born, outside forces are struggling to shape us, to define us....and in the age of mass media when people can be serially manipulated into "liking" just about anything, it gets harder to hear that inner voice...the voice that begins way down deep inside of you where most propaganda hasn't reached....yet and which most people don't even know of and have never heard.

If the journey isn't worth it to you, your destination won't be very satisfying...

I wonder, say we humans figured everything out...and put it into a book, or a pill, and just by swallowing either, or both, we knew "everything" and never had to struggle again....what would that kind of life be like? Is the whole purpose to life the journey and not the destination, not the goal? If everything was solved so that there was no longer a need for anyone to set out on a journey, would life be satisfying, or are their totally new journeys we can't imagine now? Seems all life is movement, that it has to be about movement and change...what stands still, even if it is bliss to stand still, at the moment, will die.

Or, are we not able to know that would be a great thing, because we can't imagine such a thing? So, because life is a struggle, we think it HAS to be that way...that this is what is meant by Life....constant struggle of one sort or another...or, would we find a whole new horizon and meaning to Life, if all struggle ceased and we really reached Nirvana? But then where do you go from Nirvana? Isn't that just the same dreary promise of Heaven...a place that sounds so dull and boring it might as well be hell....maybe the whole purpose to life is to reach a good death, and rest....after a good journey...any prolonged joy becomes boring and then maddening....and "forever"??? No thanks.

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On Purpose Jeffrey - Friday, September 18 2015, 4:23:54 (UTC)
- Re: On Purpose pancho - 09/18 17:05

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