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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2008-11-27 11:13 AM

Enjoyment of Life

Is life on earth meant to be enjoyed?
Doesn’t seem to be the case for most
as harsh statistics keep coming to our eyes:
30,000 or so, dying of preventable famine
each and every day.  Are these enjoying life?
Seems that concept is not working.

Is life on earth meant to be survived?
You’d think so, by the warring going on;
by resources invested in the military
and yet, how many can honestly claim
they have survived death?

Not fair, some would immediately say:
the military is to make us feel secure
and safe from enemies, not to give eternal life.
OK: how safe are people all over the world?
In Iraq?  In the Republic of Congo?
In Afghanistan, even in the USA
with the largest contingent of weaponry
in the entire world?
Another concept at a dead-end.

Maybe it was meant for love and happiness.
Yes: romance leads to happiness.
Wait - what about broken homes?
Family violence and abandoned kids?
Doesn’t most of that begin with romance?
So much for good old family values
bringing enjoyment of life.

Well, that leaves the worship of God,
knowing and serving a loving creator:
surely that must lead to fulness of life?
But history, current and old
tells a sad and sadder story of religion.
How many are the victims of divine worship?
Too many to count and the tally is growing.

So, where does that leave us?

Lobsang
Member

since 2008-05-14

Posts 55

1 posted 2008-11-27 11:24 AM

Well I think that there are no ultimate answers. But I think partial answers are a new type of world socialism and a breakdown in belief in God and religion. But we live in a fluke. An organized accident. So there are no "answers". Because happiness is impossible. It is a construct that is not attainable. Maybe flash glimpses but not with any lasting effect.

However. As I see it in the grand scheme of things the entire universe, of which we are a part is rooted in a field of consciousness. And we are part of that physical universe and our "self" is transitional and not important.

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

2 posted 2008-11-27 12:11 PM

One Who Walks With the Wind, you ask questions that are often raised ~ and very difficult to answer ~ in fact, are downrigh impossible to answer. As the saying goes, "God only knows".

I, for one, search for the positive (the Light) even in the most negative (the Dark) of situations. That is one of my 'survival mechanisms' which helps me rise above the 'Hell on Earth'.

Love, Light, Harmony & World Peace,
EA

Bill Charles
Member Patricius

since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

3 posted 2008-11-27 12:47 PM

WindWalker - one wonders not only where we've been, but where are we going...

BC

Lobsang
Member

since 2008-05-14

Posts 55

4 posted 2008-11-27 02:42 PM

Well if you are talking "we" in the personal sense and not the collective "we". I can tell you. Where you have been is what has happened from conception until now. And where you are going is what will happen until you die. Before and after those events there was and will be no "you". Or "we". But it's not bad... you just will not exist any more. The same state as before you were conceived. I am happy to clear up these complex problems.

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

5 posted 2008-11-27 03:11 PM

Enjoyed the Write Deeply and I agree with Bill and EA!

ARCTIC WIND

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

6 posted 2008-11-30 05:14 AM

I share many of your views, WW. and always
enjoy your writing.
Ida

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