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bobby1933

What Is the Reason We're Here?

May 29, 2016 18:22

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tonglen, taoism, eightfold path, toward compassion, sermon on the mount

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reginaterrae May 30 2016, 03:09:24 UTC

"What is the reason we are here?" is a question that I have never found compelling. Likewise "what is the meaning of life?" I can hardly get my mind around questions like this at all. Whose reason? Which meaning? On what level? What absurd (to me) concepts to apply to something like life, that just "is".

Why not? I guess is my answer.

And as you know, I believe passionately in God.

bobby1933 May 30 2016, 03:25:02 UTC

Yeah, i get your point. Its like the question: Why is there something rather than nothing? Well, if there were nothing, i would not be asking the question. But the question does get asked. I have asked it, and for a time, puzzled over it. Now i agree that it is less important than : Well, we ae here, so what do we do about it?

So, i'm two days early so, let me the first to wish you birthday greetings. May the coming year reward you with many blessings

reginaterrae May 30 2016, 03:27:16 UTC

Thank you, my dear. LJ oddly sent me a reminder of my own birthday, too -- I'm glad for LJ, but it can be a bit surreal at times!

amaebi May 30 2016, 11:54:17 UTC

With you on all points.

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bobby1933 May 30 2016, 06:09:10 UTC

I agree, imppo

athgarvan May 30 2016, 14:26:46 UTC

But how do YOU define 'love'?

bobby1933 May 30 2016, 17:11:02 UTC

I don't try to define love
it has already been overly defined.
I know it when i see it.
I know its absence when it is not there,

Would i lay down my life for my friends?
For strangers?
For my enemies?
For non-human animals?

If one of us has to suffer,
please, let it be me.

vaporw May 30 2016, 13:28:04 UTC

Well written as always bobby

bobby1933 May 30 2016, 17:11:32 UTC