The meaning of life

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# White Lamb_101 - 2011-11-27 03:05
Since I am anonymous, I can't keep track of this thread. I am a god fearing man of wisdom, that is about to pass on. So, as my first and final question, who believes that god exists and why? May god have mercy on us when that time comes for him to take us away. Amen.
# alpha - 2011-12-01 12:15
I recommend the Alpha Course. A great place to start.
# Design93 - 2011-12-04 04:26
Satan believes in God. You have to love Him.
# maxrussek - 2011-12-04 23:09
this is my take on god and life, i had a profound mushroom trip please let me know what you think ?

Positive Thinking Good Karma Good Marijuana
By Halden Lewis
For My Smoochy an Li’l Bubba ;)
I wrote this story in the hope that it would bring some light into the lives, of those who feel that day to day life is maybe bringing them down a bit. I wrote this book shortly after i moved to Canada over a day and a night in my bedroom, after using hallucinogens, and smoking dope., with my girlfreind michaela :) when i started noticing the power of positive thinking, and the prescence that Karma has in our every day to day lives, i hope it brings an element and happiness and control into your life and mind. I cant tell a person exactly what to do, because everybody is there own person and has the right to make there own choices, this is the main point of positive thing and karma all i can do is convey my conclusions that i have reached thru my research *internet,books,etc. And personal experiences with focusing your mind on positive thinking and good karma. The following is from my actual experiences in my short 19 years Please read on if you wish to improve your quality of day to day life.
Positive Thinking ;) I have noticed in the past few months, is that the power of positive thinking can be a powerful tool in day to day life. If you focus your mind and try and see the positive things in every seemingly meaningless activity, you will increase your mental wellbeing daily. All you need to do to feel this positive energy is everytime something happens in your day, or you run into someone you know, or a stranger, ask yourself, in your head “was that a positive interaction?” and if it maybe was not so positive, could you tell yourself to say thank you anyway? Just shrug it off? Walk away? By doing this you have turned the situation into a positive one. This is how you can harvest positive energy and good karma. You can actively exercise going about collecting good karma by being actively positive in day to day life, giving some coin to a busker, picking up a hitchhiker, using our please and thank yous saying yes if someone asks you to do anything at all, lend a smoke or a bus fare. If you make an effort to practice these mental positivity exercises you will find at the end of the day, no matter what may have got in your way, you can still look back on you day with a positive light, your mind will be full of positive mental notes through the day, and all those positive notes will have to be processessed by your body and mind somehow right? I believe i have discovered the secret to mental and physical health, through positivity and karma, if you choose to keep reading,taking this trip, i believe that choice will be a positive one and i can guarantee it will benefit your life and increase your karma, i believe that every little thing happens for a reason and our actions shape our future, by the end of this book i will have taught you how to make the most of your life and take advantage of good luck and karma.My Story:
I was born in Vancouver B.C. Canada in 1992, i spent time between both my mother and my father as they had split up shortly before i was born, by the time i was three my mother had remarried and was pregnant, we moved our new family to Thames N.Z in 1994 and shortly after my sister morgan was born and my parents were contacted at the doors by jehovahs witnesses. My mother took to the “truth very quickly both mother and father were baptised jehovahs witnesses, i went to primary school at thames south at 5 years of age and when i was 8 i moved to parawai primary, at about age ten i remember being caught with pokemon cards and as these had been mentioned at a jw assembly i was promptly removed from school and undertook the home schooling system, to prevent the happening of any more deviant bahavior while at school, by age 13 i had talked my parents into the idea that public school was the place for me and was enrolled for the 3rd form, my first time back at school in 3 years, the year went well apart from me being in trouble at home for being mischief at school, until eventually about half a term before the end of school it became obvious to my parents that i was occoaisionally smoking the od cigarette along with the od reef and i was quickly removed from the school system again and started correspondence school. My life kept chugging along for a few years with me pretending to be a jehovahs witness, and struggling with weeks and months of lockdown whenever ad get snapped smoking or dating worldly girls, i utilised my time while cooped up at home by playing the electric guitar for hours a day, practising all my favourite songs down to every twisted messy note, and i believe this benifited my life positvlily, i don’t resent my parents for raising me a jw, i think it helped me turn out reasonably well adjusted young man, and i miss and love my parents, but these groundings gave me the time to play music, read books about music, go through old records and try and find new favourites, all the while being sheltered from the outside world, and im just increasing my young interest in music and guitar, pot and psychedelia as each day goes by, you could say my life was music and it very much still is, it was a round this time that i first met Michaela Lee Clark, We didn’t see each other often but we texted almost every day for about 8 months, when we finally got around to meeting up to hang for a weekend, we immediately hit it off, we had the best time going to the beach, spending the night together and then watching movies and smoking pot the next day, all day just us by ourselves at her little house in whangarei, we watched a movie called highway together, and it pretty much epitomised our w.e., and i know this is the w.e we fell in love  we said to each other, imagine if we could live the lives of pilot and jack, take to the highway and just get blazed as everyday, we laughed at this idea as it seemed so far out of reach, just a dream, but one week later after me and Michaela had been officially dating for a few days, a friend of ours, a jw had found out about us spending time together, unchaperoned, and had told miks older sister, we were obviously way busted and had a life changing decision to make, take the plunge and leave our families and this cult behind? Or stick around and waste our lives in a religion we didn’t even believe in? Well we took the first option and jumped in my red Nissan vanette and took off down the highway, cranking some tunes and sharing smokes together, we spent the 1st few months of our new lives together, as a kind of honeymoon, with the recently acquired ten thou i had received from my Indian band we led rock and roll life styles those first few months, we partied and acted like nobody cared, it was an important time for us both and i think it shaped our personalities and our lives for good.While at a 2nine2 party in Hamilton, me and Michaela were outside trying to recover from our buzz when we both decided that we are going to one day marry each other, we have called eachouther our fiancés ever since. Now during these fast times, i had on a few occaisions consumed psilocybin, or magic mushrooms, these psychedelic drugs gave me feelings of inner peace, but also left my wary of the intense emotional trip they can take you on, i couldn’t quite get the dosage right to garantee a good trip everytime, and sometimes the mind fuck or body load can have you fighting for control, but on my most recent trip about a week ago, i tried something a little bit different that me and my friend wati had talked about some time ago, i had tried tripping on a quarter gram of dried shrooms, after an hour or two i had only experienced slight visual disturbances, but had an hour or two of temporary mind suck, the next day i had the best day at work, i woke up feeling bright and chirpy, i worked my ass off all day and felt good doing it, i had only just started this new job and wanted to really make a good impression, when the boss saw the job id done he payed me extra, brought me lunch, and gave me a half a packet of smokes, i went home from work feeling tired, but content with what i had done and exited to try tripping again tnyt. As i was thinking at work i had a bit of an idea on how id consume my shrooms this time, as a quarter had had little good effect, i decided i would triple the dose, but break it down and try to consume it every 15 minutes or so till i reached a comfortable level, well after a couple hours of slowly eating mushy dust and mushy tea a reached a satisfying level of psychedelia, i thought to myself, what a wooooonderfuuul wooorold....; Jk ;) I thought about how well the dose had turned out and my stimulated mind started thinking, what had gone so well, so i thought about how drugs and alcohol must effect the mind and body. When you have a bottle of jim to consume in an evening, how would you end up if you try and consume that dose asap, tried to “drop” a 40, you would be a sloppy mess, but if you had a half an ounce every 30minutes, you will be able to drink all night finish your booze, and wake up feeling kind of healthy. The day after my glorious mushy trip a woke up feeling good, it just felt as if id gotten my ducks in arrow, id been having great greif getting all of Michaela and I’s papers for eligibility to work, medical cover pregnancy cover etc for Canada, but we had just recently gotten in touch with a really awesome lady at the ravensong medical clinic, she turned out to be really helpful and put me onto some work, and gotten mine and the babys medical insurance payed for free, plus i had received some money from my Indian band again and things were looking up, i was starting to get that feeling of well being that you only seem to get every once so often, i could even feel my love for my fiancé had grown and could just feel the positive energy in the air, we were shopping at zellers when a storeperson came up and gave us a card with a number and said if we listened to his speech, we could maybe win a peice of free jewellery, i had woke up feeling so good on this day i couldn’t stop telling Michaela all about it, and when this happened i started playing with this idea in my mind that maybe i could channel my positive energy into something usefull, i tried to smile at the guy and have as much positive input into his sales sermon as i possibly could, i hoped i could make something magic happen.When he read out the 3 numbers on my ticket my heart skipped a beat andi had won the draw, i felt ribbons, of euphoria, what had just happened, i had recently seen the movie limitless, and i feel that this is just how the character may have felt on “nzt” or whatever that fictional wonder drug was. I immediately went and purchased three one doller lottery tickets, Michaela rolled her eyes and told me i was being cocky, and was pushing my luck, turned out i won 6 dollars and tripled my money. How was i all of a sudden lucking out Over the next few days I decided to get to the bottom of this phenomenon turn to the internet and do some serious googling, the evidence i found pointing towards a link between psychedelics and feel good body chemistry was startling, following are the conclusions i have drawn from this research and speaking to many users of psychedelic drugs. Following are some facts :Psychedelics such as dope lsd ecstacy mushrooms salvia and dissacociative psychedelics such as k and dxm work on the brain in many different ways, but all of them act on the serotonin levels in the brain and send this feel good drug to different parts of the mind and body.This is a chart i made up on the relative effects on serotonin and other chemicals in the body and the afterglow or boost of serotonin in the brain that can be felt for days after tripping, giving slight flashbacks and the lovey dovey feel good feeing in the back of your mind after a night out tripping.To understand how to use your mind to shape a trip you first need to know how psilocybin mushrooms force your brain to hallucinate, the psilocybin and strychnine in the mushrooms gets absorbed and sent to the parts of your brain that act as doors between reality, your senses and your subconscious, your mental health and your perception, when the psilocybin/ serotonin mix is better than the strychnine/ serotonin mix the trip is clean sparkly and good, you can use your positive energy exercises to control the trip and use the magic of the mushroom, the “magic” its what makes a good trip and the lingering afterglow for the next few days, the serotonin and psilocybin mix and massage your brain into sensing its hallucinations for a few hours, and afterglowing for the next few days a stronger strychnine mix will confuse your mind and send you into a bad trip and this is the only time there is a risk of a bad trip/ bad afterglow for the next few days, these doses and afterglow effects only apply if psychedelics are consumed in the correct manner, but when consumed correctly, a good trip is almost guaranteed.

PSYCHEDELIC dropped med extended large extended dose
Alcohol good tipsy good drunk in control vomiting/poisoning
A.G. Little or none still tipsy? hungover
Shrooms poss good or bad definitely good also good
A.g. always Good
Pot dose is always good, u cant o.d. on weed, u just get blazed as and no hangover, always good afterglow
If mushrooms are consumed in an extended dose, devide your hit into 4-6 parts and cosume 1 part every ten to 30 minutes over a few hours, this is the part you can experiment with, like alcohol how mangled you end up at the end of the night depends on how quickly or slowly you consume the substance, with mushrooms and booze, drink alot fast equals sick, with shrooms alot fast and you will fight for control of your mind and possibly lose it before the morning comes, learn your limit and carefully tread the line and you will almost always experience glowing experiences, the same goes for weed and most other drugs.
So with mind and brain control, anybody can mentally steer there life in a good direction with positive energy and faith in karma, i hope this story helps you in you day to day life whether you be sober or going off on a trip. I believe the mushroom is a powerful tool for life, and possibly a road for relief and religion even possibly, if you struggle with questions about the meaning of life or whether on not there is a higher purpose, i recommend dabbling in natural drugs that come from the earth, i believe they are a gift and they may help you spiritually like they did with me, since ive taken the time and noticed the prescence of karma and the medicinal power magic mushrooms hold for you and your mental health i could take control of my life, i feel better every day about my life situation, and an almost déjà vu feeling that im heading down the right track i feel love and excitement towards my beautiful fiancé and our upcoming baby, and positive thinking has brought me so much good karma thes last few days. I can control my moods, my trips and buzzes, my sexual functions and wellbeing and guide good karma into my stream of life, all of these aspects of my life have increased in quality since i had that ultimate good trip, i believe i have a better grasp on religion now too, for instance ponder these questions with regard to shrooming and the meaning of life and how humans landed on this planet, i would suggest you google these subjects and questions yourself as your first task in understanding the mushroom, this is what i did and i noticed coincidences from recently and throughout my whole life that point to this wild idea of mine about the humble magic mushroom being a possible life answer, the answer to where we came from? Along with all the information it seems karma has been pounding my brain with the last few daysconsider these thought provoking questions that came to me while tripping:
Why is the male member source of all human life, shaped like a shroom? Does it mean this is a possibility?Why does it have blue veins like a shroom?Why does it seem women have more sexual functions than men?( They don’t ;)Why does the sublime song, caress me down mention a mushroom tip a la drip drip dripMushrooms are created by the original shroom sending out thousands of spores, human are created by a mushroom sending out thousands of spermAnd finally, Hypothetically if magic mushies created humans, wouldn’t all of the extra functions these higher life forms spent time designing be intended to be common knowledge for allhumans to know and Use at their own frewilll, not desperately tried to be controlled andspectacularly pleasurable functions hidden and tried to be forgotten? And why is it called tripping “balls?” Why would any god write a bible to try and remove the knowing of these skills it created from society? Something smells fishy...

Thank you for reading, My intention was to share the deep positive emotional thought ive had over the last few days while tripping/afterglowing. I hope my insights benefit you and help you harvest karma and milk the pleasure out of life, i felt i had to convey what i felt because it seems as if almost all of the events in my life led towards this moment when i had the realisition how to increase you serotonin levels without the use of unnatural drugs and anti depressants, when a superior chemical given to us by nature can do a far superior job, i ask that you make an effort to ponder these questions enjoy some good trips and start getting the most out of tlife like i did, all it takes is positive thinking, good Karma and good marijuana, and seek the answers to the above questions, itll trip you out and i promise you once you notice lady karma after a few days, she will repay you. Have a nice trip through life.
Sincerely
Lewis Halden

If you have any questions, comments or reading this benefitted your life and youd like to donate towards spreading the message of the mushroom, please email me at maxrussek@hotmail.com
# aboveaverageteenager - 2011-12-14 11:14
God exists, but he is not an intelligent force. Nor does he have a physical shape, nor does he have supernatural powers. He exists in the connections between our millions of neurones, he is the defence mechanism in our brain that stops us dwelling too much on the biggest and most torturous question man will ever ask- why and how we exist. He is efficient- very little brain power is required to believe in him, and if alternative solutions that require more thought seep their way into your conscience, then all you have to do is have faith in him, and they will disappear. He is the basis in which man can lives a fearful, moral life, and yet he is the cause of hundreds of wars and millions of deaths. You could replace the word ignorance with his name, and every sentence would still make sense.
# brighterjoy - 2012-01-08 22:22
I believe that God exists because every effect must have a cause, but of course much more can be said about that. As far as the meaning of life,it seems that it is just at those moments when one is the most content that the question is the least pressing. But I do have my reason for the Meaning of Life. According to the Heidelberg Catechism, "The chief end (purpose) of man is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever." Better put, it could be stated, "The chief end of man is to glorify God BY enjoying Him forever." He is the most glorified by me when I am the most satisfied in Him. I don't always live at the level of this satisfaction; He is not always glorified in me because I don't always represent Him well. But I have many periods of time when I can sit and simply relish in the love and goodness of God toward me, enjoying Him and feeling His pleasure in me. For this we were created.
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