I would suggest to leave the dog owners with their sentiments just as much as the god-given with their purpose. How about saying the purpose of life and survival is to create meaning/make sense of it all? Or would that be a too counter-argumentative, unspecified, unobjectifiable, unproductive, circular, non-sensical approach?
2013/1/23 RP Singh <[email protected]> > If survival were the purpose for an individual , morality and > patriotism would make no sense. In my opinion man is born without a > god-given purpose , and it is society which builds , develops and > inculcates a purpose in the individual. That would explain the > self-sacrificing deeds of great valor exhibited by many people. > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:48 PM, rigs <[email protected]> wrote: > > We do not always know what impact lives have upon one another but I > > stand by my opinion that our primary purpose is to live/survive. As > > you know, Jesus made use of sinners- Romans fell on their swords in > > shame- early Christians earned sainthood- Islam distorts martyrdom as > > a war tactic. > > > > On Jan 21, 10:25 am, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> " To live. " As everyone , saint and sinner , lives that makes life > >> purposeless at least spiritually. If mere existing is the purpose then > >> howsoever you live is important and there is no use for martyrdom. > >> > >> > >> > >> On Monday, January 21, 2013 9:00:28 PM UTC+5:30, rigs wrote: > >> > >> > To live. How do we know the condition of their souls? Death teaches > >> > the rest of us that life is precious and brief. > >> > >> > On Jan 21, 8:03 am, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > What you are saying , Andrew , is the spiritual lesson we take from > >> > > the experience of others , but what is the spiritual purpose for > that > >> > > child or for the old man ? > >> > >> > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:11 PM, andrew vecsey < > [email protected]> > >> > wrote: > >> > > > In suppose the spiritual purpose for the old man is to experience > the > >> > > > experience and to give the opportunity for others to react to this > >> > > > experience. The spiritual purpose of the 1 year old is to > experience a > >> > very > >> > > > short life. The purpose of any life is to experience, learn and > teach. > >> > From > >> > > > the old man we can learn to be thankful of our own lives and > learn how > >> > to > >> > > > live it right to try to avoid having a stroke. From the 1 year > old we > >> > cam > >> > > > learn to be sympathetic and to ask questions that make us ponder > about > >> > the > >> > > > purpose of it all. > >> > >> > > > On Monday, January 21, 2013 1:31:34 PM UTC+1, RP Singh wrote: > >> > >> > > >> An old man suffers a stroke and becomes a vegetable for the rest > of > >> > his > >> > > >> life , a one year old child becomes sick and dies. What is the > >> > purpose , the > >> > > >> spiritual purpose for the old man or the child ? > >> > >> > > > --- Hide quoted text - > >> > >> > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > >> > >> - Show quoted text - > > > > -- > > > > > > > > -- > > > > --
