Your life really does matter?

[shanghi]

How you live your life really does matter. It will mean for you either a happy future or a miserable one.
As a matter of fact, the more we pursue our studies, the less are we impressed by the dates which initially filled us with respect. We begin to recognize the framework of chronological history for what it is—a purely hypothetical structure, and one which threatens to come apart at every point. Crooked and tottering, it gives us a picture of a strangely arbitrary history, while at the same time our instinct tells us that the ancient civilizations must have had some sort of reasonable and organic growth. When we reach this point in our studies we begin to be doubtful of every single date!

[jomifl]

Naomi It's all about err....stuff you know vague stuff, made out of words from somewhere..

[joko]

Babs would be a good one but Grimms Fairytales seemed quite fitting ... as religion is both Grimm... and a Fairytale...

"After many, many years there came a king's son into that land: and an
old man told him the story of the thicket of thorns; and how a beautiful
palace stood behind it, and how a wonderful princess, called Briar Rose,
lay in it asleep, with all her court. He told, too, how he had heard
from his grandfather that many, many princes had come, and had tried to
break through the thicket, but that they had all stuck fast in it, and
died. Then the young prince said, 'All this shall not frighten me; I
will go and see this Briar Rose.' The old man tried to hinder him, but
he was bent upon going."

[boxtops]

Our studies of what, shanghi? What a strange post for a first post!

[DTCwordfan]

Its another cutter and paster.....just do a google on para 2

For example, I found this:

Is the biblical flood story copied from the Gilgamesh Epic? - Page ...
www.religiousforums.com/.../110195-biblical-f
lood-story-copied-gil...


They're back the JW Numbskulls who can't think for themselves.

[boxtops]

In that case... yawn....

[jomifl]

I used to be impressed by dates as christmas approached and found them fascinating, however over the years I have become less impressed by them and now prefer brazil nuts. Just recently I have begun to go off nuts, especially those from the New World.

[micmak]

'Your life matters', my answer is, to whom?

[naomi24]

Jom, :o)

[beso]

Angels always tell the perfect truth because they reinforce exactly what the person receiving the "knowledge" already believes.

Why? Because the illusion of communication from God is nothing more than an indulgence in one's own prejudices.

[beso]

shanghi //Well, you are a happy lot but I’m afraid you’re wrong//

Wrong to be happy?
We just think we are happy but we are not really?

Personally I would not find more happiness through the illusion that an all powerful, upposedly caring but obvious procrastinating God was watching over me.

Nor would I relish the thought that this God would come and massacre most of the people on Earth one day when he finally gets around to deciding He needs to do something.

[naomi24]

Beso, his reason for living is to die.

[jomifl]

So why doesn't he do something about it?

[Seadragon]

'How you live your life really does matter. It will mean for you either a happy future or a miserable one.'

I agree with you totally here. We live by our choices. Of course, the choice you make depends on experience, age, education, social and family influences etc

Its the next paragraph I don't understand? If you are saying that the more knowledgeable a person becomes about history through study that person loses confidence in history? - 'a purely hypothetical structure'
So are you then saying that present life does not matter as history does not?

While 'our instinct tells us that the ancient civilizations must have had some sort of reasonable and organic growth.'

Personally....I think you are doubting yourself. Our instinct does not tell us about history...the facts as much as can be derived at from our knowledge today whether scientific, artistic, written or what, tell us about the past.

[Seadragon]

'How you live your life really does matter. It will mean for you either a happy future or a miserable one.'

I agree with you totally here. We live by our choices. Of course, the choice you make depends on experience, age, education, social and family influences etc

Its the next paragraph I don't understand? If you are saying that the more knowledgeable a person becomes about history through study that person loses confidence in history? - 'a purely hypothetical structure'
So are you then saying that present life does not matter as history does not?

While 'our instinct tells us that the ancient civilizations must have had some sort of reasonable and organic growth.'

Personally....I think you are doubting yourself. Our instinct does not tell us about history...the facts as much as can be derived at from our knowledge today whether scientific, artistic, written or what, tell us about the past.

[jason.p]

Hope this helps. The constancy of the speed of light in all frames means that different observers must slice spacetime into space and time in different ways. This is quite unlike the situation in classical mechanics, in which everyone can agree on what is space and what is time. In particular, from the point of view of a stationary observer, an observer moving at constant velocity has a coordinate frame whose space and time axes are “tilted” towards the light cone. By the relativity postulate, this situation must be symmetric - the second observer will consider herself stationary and the first observer’s frame “tilted”. From this sort of reasoning and a little bit of mathematical sophistication, we can cook up a recipe for translating the coordinates assigned to events between inertial frames. Each such translation is known as a Lorentz transformation.

[David H]

I find the question confusing as well, but my rule has been never take anything too seriously as life doesn't take us seriously. Nothing matters enough to let it ruin your life, as once it's happened it is a disaster but absolutely nothing we can do and can be the same for everyone.
The good parts tell us what does matter, while the rest seem to be the padding which can make you wonder why. Then you have to remind yourself and remember the past which has already told me why I'm here.