What is the point of life?
I would say nothing beyond the point you give it.
sharePlaying the chromosomal shuffle is the closest thing there is to a point.
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To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
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shareWell if anyone on here is Catholic of a certain age they will know this answer from the Baltimore Catechism that we all had to memorize: Why did God make you?
A. God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him for ever in heaven.
Exactly! I never forgot that. It was drilled in my head by those nuns. LOL
I never realized how much that meant to me until I heard someone make fun of the Catechism.
A few years ago I became a little put off by my friend's pastor. She invited me to her fundamentalist church, trying to get me "saved." They are the only ones who are "saved" and the rest of us are going to hell.
Her pastor, a self appointed know it all, had a favorite phrase which he liked to repeat.
He had a serious stick up his butt with the Catholic Church (many nasty comments in his "sermons") and he would say, "You don't need to be baptized and catechized and ostracized."
I thought it was the stupidest comment I ever heard. But I guess he thought he was clever. I finally asked him one day in private why he said that. I quoted what you said about the Baltimore Catechism.
All he could say was, "Well I was NEVER catechized."
Only politeness kept me from saying, "Well if you HAD been, then you wouldn't talk like such a bigoted ignoramus."
If I wanted to hear such bigoted stupidity, I'd go watch Archie Bunker. At least HE was funny.
Sorry, it's just that your post dredged up that memory. The guy thought he knew everything because he had a building, a bully pulpit and a BIG mouth.
Wow! +1 for the Baltimore Catechism. It really did teach us the faith.
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Was trying to reply to your first post AS117. Would you mind if I added that I believe that He not only made us to know and to love and to celebrate Him, but I feel that He made us and this world as an organic experiment so that He can learn from the choices that we make and the relationships that we have here? I humbly suggest that Love is a circuit. I of course stipulate that His Mind is beyond any of our's, and beyond our collective groupmind; but, just as we can learn from lab rats, perhaps we can help Him to learn as well, and can there be any more glorious work for us? Can there be any other work AS glorious for us?
PS I was not, officially, raised Catholic, though my mother was German Catholic; but there are things that our heart tells us by instinct that may find their correspondenence in old and wise texts.
PPS pjpurple, I would have slapped that guy, medium hard and only once, on his cheek. My handprint, and its sting, would have been there the next morning. I would of course ask Him to forgive me.
The Hokey Pokey. That's what it's all about.
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Whenever I think of this question, I think of the universe. There's so much out there that we don't know or can't comprehend. Instead of driving yourself crazy searching for the meaning of life, I say just roll with it and live the best you can.
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