Do Your Life Have Any Meaning?

[goodlife]

Take a man in his 80’s thinks: ‘My life is nearly over. It’s gone so fast. So little is left. Where did it all go? What did it mean? It’s all behind, nothing’s ahead. Except the grave. Yes oblivion. How pointless it all was! No wonder the cynic says, “Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

‘Well, I lived a full life, you may say. Supposedly this means death is now acceptable. But does a full life that is past make dying easier to accept? Or does it make it harder? Would it not be easier to leave an empty life than a full one? No one says, “I’m so happy I’m going to kill myself!

[sandyRoe]

Pixie, consider the alternative. A bit of worshipping now and again is surely a small price to pay to avoid an eternity of sizzling over a bed of hot coals

[pixie373]

Lol- i don't believe in either. So God would prefer insincere worship to somebody who is honest?

[sandyRoe]

We mere mortals can't know what's in his mind. But I feel it's better to be safe than sorry.

[pixie373]

Well, no. He can either accept me as i am, or we'd just argue, anyway :-)

[berniecuddles]

there are only two sure things in life being born and dying what you choose to do in between is up to you even if you completely balls it up!!!!

[naomi24]

Me too, Pixie. I can't admire anyone who relies upon sycophants to boost his ego.

[jomifl]

Sandy, that pope chap seems t think he knows 'the mind of god'. how so? has he got a copy of the real bible?

[jomifl]

Sandy, surely it is better to believe in no god rather than the wrong one. They can get a bit jealous you know.

[sandyRoe]

Indeed. It's not necessary to be religious to get to a blissful eternity. I've often said that I think there'll be a place for the goodly unGodly in Heaven. Maybe not at the high table, but a place, nonetheless.

The Pope, as God's Vicar on earth, would be guided in his infallible utterances by a power greater than we can imagine.

[mibn2cweus]

Ignorance truly is a powerful force . . . but not for good.

[jomifl]

But Sandy, it is only the pope who says he is god's vicar. God hasn't said anything....ever. I do like the metaphor of a 'high table' in heaven, it is a metaphor isn't it, otherwise what would the legs stand on?

[sandyRoe]

Jomifl, I'm sure you're familiar with Matthew 16:18. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
The present Pope is the direct successor of St Peter who was given the office by Jesus.
And yes, it's a metaphorical table.

[SirOracle]

Sandy I am delighted to read your post in justification of the Holy Father's
authority.

I sincerely hope that your avatar title is not at all connected to your Belfast
address. (;-)

[sandyRoe]

Sandy Row is a tired, run-down, Loyalist area and no place for Catholics. I lived close to it before the troubles started but haven't been anywhere near it for years.

[SirOracle]

Yes Sandy I was being facetious .

" Sandy Row
Where the Fenians fear to go" as the song goes.

[SirOracle]

Seconded , Karenkay.

[mibn2cweus]

Could it be something they read . . . or an explanation for why they believe it?

[idiosyncrasy]

naomi24
//I know that soon it will all be done away ...//
//You don't./

Actually I do. Which is more than you do. You appear to be burying your head in the sand thinking that if you deny God and his word The Bible, then you will be okay and nothing will happen to you. It is no good denying the inevitable. It is going to happen. Maybe not tomorrow, next week, next month or even next year. But it will happen and there is no one on this earth who will be able to stop it. You may say you are not afraid of death or dying. I am not, at the moment. But who can say that at the actual moment you (or I) will not do or say anything to postpone that moment.

[naomi24]

idiosyncrasy, Actually you don’t. The only reason you tell yourself you ‘know’ is because you are terrified of death and you think that by abandoning your self-respect to sycophancy, and your rationality to irrationality, you can escape it. As for me burying my head in the sand and thinking nothing will happen to me, you’re mistaken. When the time comes I will die. That’s life.