About the soul. I don't know if I have, I don't have any reason to think it's there, and I don't even think about it.
What's the meaning of life? I don't know. I only know that before I was born, I wasn't here. And after I die, I won't know about it. I only have to live in the time between birth and death. To quote Epicurus :
Perhaps you should ask what do I live for. And on that question, I've taken Bertrand Russell's answer for my own as well:"Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?"
Here's a video link, with Bertrand Russell's own voice narrating this beautiful letter: Three Passions of Bertrand RussellWhat I have lived for
by Bertrand Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970)
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy -- ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness -- that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what -- at last -- I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
* would appreciate it if you clicked Like on Bertrand Russell's Three Passions.
unsa may point nimo nga tabla raman ka ug mananap kaha? pero kung nagtuo ka nga duna kay value or worth ang imong kinabuhi then imo lang gi-suppress imong belief sa Ginoo. Ang tinuod nga wala jud motuo sa ginoo bro, dili naman motubay diri nga ipa prove jud ang iyang existence. Same thing ba kung dili ka motuo sa usa ka butang then dili na nimo i mind bisan unsa pa ang isulti sa uban about ana.
Bro, dili nani effective ang logic sa mga atheist kay dugay naning napildi sa mga debates. Gahi lang jud ni sila'g utok.
Ravi Zacharias Answers Atheists Part 1 - YouTube
Brad, ako tawo ko, dili ko mananap. Naa koy abilidad nga mu huna-huna. Maka empathize ko sa ubang mga tawo, ug aware ko sa akong existence. Naa koy consciousness. So kana, nagpasabot nga tawo ko.
Kahibaw ko nga naay balor ang akong kinabuhi, sama ra nga tanang tawo naay balor ilang kinabuhi. Dili tungod kay di ko mu-tuo ug ginoo, nagpasabot nga maghikog nalang ko o mupatay ug tawo nga way kukahadlok ug way pag duha-duha, kay para nako naay katungod ang tanang tawo nga mabuhi ug magmalipayon.
Last edited by Norad-II; 08-22-2011 at 11:38 PM. Reason: typos galore
^^ santopaps, since you say I'm wrong, then please indulge our curiosity with your answers. Is there a soul? How do you know it's there? And, of course, what's the meaning of life?
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