Searching for the Meaning of Life
Wed, November 14, 2018 I couldn’t sleep the other night, I lay awake in bed,
With thoughts about the meaning of life running through my head.
I went over to the window and looked into the night,
I saw a million twinkling stars, it was an awesome sight.
I got quite excited, and I began to shout,
“What are we all doing here, and what’s it all about.”
A voice came back with the answer, and this is what it said,
“It’s none of your fucking business.” So I got back into bed.
I wrote the above song lyrics some years ago. It sums up my thoughts about the meaning of life. I try not to take life too seriously, or rather try not to take my own life too serious. Why does life have to have a meaning anyway? Is it not more important to live a life that has meaning?”
What is life? Life is anything that dies if you stomp on it. A tiny ant crawling across our kitchen counter has life until we crush it under our thumb. Life is what keeps meat fresh without refrigeration. The moment life leaves any living entity, be it plant or animal, it will start to rot and decay.
One might as well ask, “Where does fire go when it goes out.” A candle will burn until the wick is totally consumed, and the flame will go out. However, if I light another candle from the first candle I have the same flame that in theory could burn indefinitely, as long as someone keeps lighting a new candle from the same flame.
Likewise my mother created me, (With a little help from my dad) a new life from her life. I share DNA from both parents. When their candle burned out the same flame of life continues to burn in me, and will do so long after I’m gone. It will continue through my children, grandchildren, and so on.
Life is my belief system. I do not need to believe in some Deity or other which may or may not exist, rather I know there is Life, because I have Life, plus I can see it in abundance everywhere.
There’s a small change in perception between Heaven and Hell,
And I’ve found a God that I can trust, the one within myself.
The above are more lyrics. Heaven and Hell are not necessarily where we go when we die, but what we create for ourselves here on Earth. I have met many people over the years whose lives are a “Living Hell.” Created mostly by their own negative thoughts and actions. Even Shakespeare said, “Nothing is good or bad that thinking makes it so.”
The God within myself is of course “My Life,” as previously explained. Time and time again I have seen a positive thought result in a positive outcome. Bad thoughts will result in a negative outcome too, proving to myself it works either way. It is not necessary I prove it to others, only to myself.
Another man praying to his God may have the exact same outcome, because what is a prayer but a positive thought? And a positive thought is but an unspoken prayer.
I love to watch nature programs on TV, and in doing so it seems to me that the main purpose in life is to survive and procreate. Thus ensuring that life continues. Humankind however has the brain capacity to go way beyond simply survive and procreate.
It would seem the noble thing to do is to do something that is of benefit to others. However, there are those who went before us who did just that and in doing so created an industrialized world, one from which we can never return.
I sometimes wonder if the honorable thing to do is to simply survive and procreate. Providing of course that person lives a happy existence, and raises children who are themselves happy and stable. And as long as on his journey through life, he harms no one.
The world would be in a better state today if more people had been left to do just, instead of being encouraged to get ahead, make more, and buy more stuff.
But now I am thinking too much, which is mankind’s downfall. Occasionally someone will have an idea like sliced bread, but mostly it is a series of "It seemed like a good idea at the time," all strung together. We can never see the problems we cause further down the road.
But then again, probably it's none of my business.
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Reader Comments (5)
I think it was Tom Waits who said "There is no Devil, there's only God when He's drunk".
We spend our whole lives making memories, everything we do is but a memory for others. We will not know when we die. Only the ones we have left memories for, will know that. Every second, every tick of the clock is gone and will not return. AS I write this, the time it took is gone never to return, So live every second and enjoy it, IT will not return.
Concern for man and his destiny should be the chief interest of all technical work.
There's only one reason for man's unbelief in God. Man's own hubris. Any one who is willing to seek the meaning of life unconstrained by intellectually dishonesty can easily find the overwhelming preponderance of evidence He has carefully provided. Man is without excuse. I will concede that it will be impossible for those who refuse to humble themselves and relinquish their preconceived notions and prejudice . I wish no insult or offense save that which comes with sharing the truth.
Everything that happens makes sense when we understand there is no God.
Belief in a god means having to come up with unsatisfying explanations for cancer and car crashes, for floods and famines. None of that is necessary when we realize nothing that happpens is based on the actions of a god.