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Where is the point?

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Message 4 of 45 (678725)
11-10-2012 8:16 AM

The obvious first question is Why do you think there needs to be a point to life?
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11-10-2012 10:52 AM 		Reply to: Message 8 by Dogmafood
11-10-2012 10:35 AM

Re: Pointless
The feelings you have are not at all unique; you'd be a peculiar person if you didn't have them. Everybody has looked into a starry sky at some point in their life, felt utterly insignificant and wondered what the point was.
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This is one reason God was invented - to create a point and to feel significant. (The other is to explain to children why granddad has died.)
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Once you accept that there is no endgame, no reason for your existence or otherwise, life can begin and you can get pleasure from the small things in life.
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11-12-2012 5:17 PM 		Reply to: Message 29 by Faith
11-12-2012 3:53 PM

Re: Pointless
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Our responsibility for the planet is important, of course, but it starts with recognizing that the human soul is made in the image of God, of enough worth that He came to die for our salvation. THEN when we know who we really are we can take responsibility for the rest of Creation as He intended us to.
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The trouble with this kind of pulpit waffle that seems to come from a religious random word generator is that it has those that believe, nodding in agreement and those of us that don't howling with laughter.
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If it gets us anywhere at all, it just confirms our need to believe anything that make us feel significant and give us a spurious "point".
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Message 41 of 45 (679272)
11-13-2012 7:08 AM

I see he jeered pretty much every post in the 'what's the point' thread last night regardless of what was posted, he couldn't have even read them.
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Perhaps he's working through the whole board.........
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