EmancipatedSoul

Two very profound questions that mankind has asked are ‘what is the meaning of life?’ and ‘Why does one have faith, without knowledge or proof?’ These two questions are closely linked. Does anyone know the answer? Not fully. But one has to know to a certain degree, for one keeps on living, one has to be alive…

It is all hope. This plain and simple word explains and defines so many of life’s experiences and questions that mankind asks…

What is the meaning of life? Is it preparation or a test? Or is it the end? Are we on this earth to witness the apocalypse, whether personal or complete? Will we all experience oblivion? Does that not make life meaningless? Why live if there is nothing after?

Personally, I will to see what happens after this life, and will not be disappointed with oblivion, because I will not be able to be disappointed.

Yet, why do people ask for the meaning of life? Why do people debate about it? Is it not illogical to ask the meaning of a subject matter, without knowing what it is?

However that is easily explained. There are many people who believe that they know what life is, what it holds, and how it can be defined. But is this true, or is this just from a personal perspective? To know what life is, one has to learn and experience life from many different angles, and it is impossible to experience all perspectives.

That is why the meaning of life will never be general, because however the answer may be found, it would be the meaning for an individual, or at most, for a certain group of people. There is too much diversity, and too many individuals on this earth for a general meaning.

It may be that one asks this question from a personal view, but why does man ask others? This may either be because of curiosity, or because of the influence that human beings play on their fellow beings. Does man require re-assurance from others? A renewal of hope if you will…

People have to believe in the immortality of spirit. It is natural human instinct; man wills to be alive and thus finds death repulsive. One has throughout life heard of or seen death. Thus, man knows that immortality cannot yet be possible, and that he/she cannot be materially immortal (being conscious inside a material body), although it may be possible in the future. If one doesn’t believe in immortality of spirit, one’s soul, hope and ability to carry on may crumble, for one will not find reason for existence.

For many people, there is no feeling more important than hope. Whether this is knowledge to them or not, it is true to most. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our children, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be.

The future will be better than the past, or the present, that the efforts of living a proper life in one’s perspective will be rewarded in the next plane of existence, whether heaven, hell, limbo, or whatever one’s perspective of a reward may be. Without this belief, this hope, there is only the self-indulgent, empty striving of the present or simple despair, the time of life wasted in waiting for death…

This is why the question is asked, and why people have faith in a certain Religion or belief system, the hope that man obtains and the thought of oblivion from which most attempt to abstain, to have a reason to carry on, the promise of eternal bliss and reward in the next existence...