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What is the Purpose?
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RE: What is the Purpose?
The difference is that it gives you intrinsic purpose. That you were meant for a something, even if you aren't personally motivated for that.

For example, it questions, if God created us humans, what is the purpose of doing that.

I've come up with reasons, part of it is to grant us peace and happiness, part of it is opportunity to gain greatness and honour. However temporary happiness to me cannot be the over-all goal. The reason being is that too many humans suffer temporarily and are not happy.

Therefore, in a world full of evil and suffering, believing in a creator, gives you the resolve that you are meant to transcend temporary happiness, and achieve a state of contentment and peace, in whatever situation you are found.

For example, I relate to the story of Jacob and Joseph in the Quran. One suffered a lot due the suffering of the other, and one was full of grief. But they were at the end, noble and didn't really lose anything out of the tragedy they faced.

No all they did is gain through that.

When we live, we can live just for the present moment, or we can be planning for the future as well as the present moment.

With an eternal future, one can plan for eternal future. As I personally don't believe in hell, the real loss and real gain, is that which lies within the soul.

Disgrace to me is worse eternal inheritance, than that of eternal punishment. But it's worse in a different type of way, in the same way, eternal praise is better off than any physical enjoyment, but it's better in a different way and sense. It's comparing two different things, so it's hard to see it better or worse.

Good actions are not simply conceptual as well from my perspective but a form a living essence and form of a part of you, in inner world.

In this sense, I relate to the Islamic view, that your actions will one day be seen in their living forms, and that then we truly will know our worth, whether it was in the positive or negative.

This perspective on actions, just gives every action a lot more weight. It's inheritance is eternal, and it's not just a psychological aspect of inheritance, but a living reality inheritance.

These beliefs significantly motivate me to take every action I do with great care.

They take living forms and have an objective beauty or ugliness value to them, or inbetween, depending on the state of being and motivation and spirit behind each action.

I believe ultimately building a beautiful inner world is the higher purpose intended by the Creator. Not temporary happiness.

Ironically, this view significantly makes me happier, in a world filled with so much problems and suffering. It gives me a positive view that everyone has this opportunity.
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Messages In This Thread
What is the Purpose? - by Baalzebutt - May 3, 2013 at 1:11 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Minimalist - May 3, 2013 at 1:19 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by goodnews - May 3, 2013 at 1:27 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Baalzebutt - May 3, 2013 at 1:41 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Minimalist - May 3, 2013 at 1:35 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Whateverist - May 3, 2013 at 1:45 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Tonus - May 3, 2013 at 1:57 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 3, 2013 at 3:29 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Baalzebutt - May 3, 2013 at 4:25 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 3, 2013 at 5:38 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by FifthElement - May 4, 2013 at 9:18 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Whateverist - May 3, 2013 at 6:03 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 3, 2013 at 6:21 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 3, 2013 at 7:55 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Whateverist - May 3, 2013 at 9:15 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by MysticKnight - May 3, 2013 at 9:30 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Whateverist - May 3, 2013 at 9:50 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 3, 2013 at 11:19 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Whateverist - May 4, 2013 at 12:43 am
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Lord Privy Seal - May 4, 2013 at 10:27 am
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 4, 2013 at 4:05 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Lord Privy Seal - May 4, 2013 at 7:16 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 5, 2013 at 12:38 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by wwjs - May 4, 2013 at 7:24 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 4, 2013 at 10:22 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by MysticKnight - May 3, 2013 at 5:34 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Joel - May 3, 2013 at 6:30 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Baalzebutt - May 3, 2013 at 6:35 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 3, 2013 at 7:55 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 3, 2013 at 8:32 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by MysticKnight - May 3, 2013 at 8:05 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by MysticKnight - May 3, 2013 at 10:00 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 3, 2013 at 10:04 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Whateverist - May 3, 2013 at 10:22 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 4, 2013 at 3:45 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by wwjs - May 4, 2013 at 3:50 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by purplepurpose - May 4, 2013 at 5:31 am
RE: What is the Purpose? - by CleanShavenJesus - May 4, 2013 at 3:53 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Joel - May 4, 2013 at 7:29 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by cneron - May 5, 2013 at 1:09 am
Re: RE: What is the Purpose? - by frz - May 5, 2013 at 12:46 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 5, 2013 at 2:57 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Simon Moon - May 5, 2013 at 3:00 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 5, 2013 at 3:18 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 6, 2013 at 5:39 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 6, 2013 at 6:28 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Gabriel Syme - May 6, 2013 at 9:24 am
RE: What is the Purpose? - by pocaracas - May 6, 2013 at 9:53 am
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Whateverist - May 6, 2013 at 9:56 am
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Gabriel Syme - May 6, 2013 at 10:33 am
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Whateverist - May 6, 2013 at 3:29 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Silver - May 6, 2013 at 5:24 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Faith No More - May 6, 2013 at 5:30 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 6, 2013 at 5:19 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 7, 2013 at 1:12 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 7, 2013 at 5:48 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by pocaracas - May 7, 2013 at 6:32 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 7, 2013 at 9:32 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Minimalist - May 7, 2013 at 1:43 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 7, 2013 at 10:10 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 7, 2013 at 10:44 pm

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