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snarflemike
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Title says it all. How and why?
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JRKH
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HOW??
?"…You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 "This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, `You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
WHY??
“On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”
Put another way…
HOW??
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another
Why??
By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
The above are taken from Mt 22:36-40 and John 13:34-35
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James
?"…You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 "This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, `You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
WHY??
“On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”
Put another way…
HOW??
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another
Why??
By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
The above are taken from Mt 22:36-40 and John 13:34-35
Peace
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GratefulFred
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Love of God first and then love of others for the love of God are indeed the two greatest Commandments.
Another way of saying it:
God First.
Family second.
All else third.
Love is much more than a feeling. Love is action.
If I love God, I want to keep His Commandments; I want to be as Christ like as possible. I know that I am God’s child, as as such, I know I depend on His help and I ask for His help. I know that when I have done wrong, I must ask for His forgiveness just as any kid does of his parents.
I married my wife because I want to do good things for her. She married me for the same reason.
We love our children, and that naturally requires us to teach them the proper values of being an independently capable adults who will love God and love their future families. Children are NOT an imposition. Children are what we get to raise because God trusts us to it reasonably well.
I love others by treating them with respect, and when needed, I try to help one way or the other. There are many opportunities and ways to love others.
Love is slow to anger and rich in kindness, yet sometimes love requires we say NO to something that is not good. Sometimes love requires us to stand up against evil.
With love, we should always try to distinguish between a false love and true love. True love is wanting and working for the ULTIMATE GOOD of the ones loved.
WHY? Because we are here to do God’s Will and that Will is to love Him and others as best we can.
Another way of saying it:
God First.
Family second.
All else third.
Love is much more than a feeling. Love is action.
If I love God, I want to keep His Commandments; I want to be as Christ like as possible. I know that I am God’s child, as as such, I know I depend on His help and I ask for His help. I know that when I have done wrong, I must ask for His forgiveness just as any kid does of his parents.
I married my wife because I want to do good things for her. She married me for the same reason.
We love our children, and that naturally requires us to teach them the proper values of being an independently capable adults who will love God and love their future families. Children are NOT an imposition. Children are what we get to raise because God trusts us to it reasonably well.
I love others by treating them with respect, and when needed, I try to help one way or the other. There are many opportunities and ways to love others.
Love is slow to anger and rich in kindness, yet sometimes love requires we say NO to something that is not good. Sometimes love requires us to stand up against evil.
With love, we should always try to distinguish between a false love and true love. True love is wanting and working for the ULTIMATE GOOD of the ones loved.
WHY? Because we are here to do God’s Will and that Will is to love Him and others as best we can.
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Bradski
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As if it is not a dress rehearsal.
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ChibiViolet
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Why: because God loved you into excistence and suffered and died that you might have eternal life.
How: putting God first, others second and yourself the very last.
How: putting God first, others second and yourself the very last.
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Portofino
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However you choose to, so long as you are willing to accept the consequences of your choices. We are free to live as we want, but not free to evade the consequences. This applies to believers and non-believers alike, even in this world.
If you (hypothetical “you”) want to smoke cigarettes, you are free to do so; but there may be consequences.
If you want to drink yourself into a stupor every night, you are free to do so; again, there may be consequences.
If you want to live only for yourself, without any friends and without trusting anybody, and without anyone having reason to trust you, it is your choice; there may be advantages (short term or otherwise), but there may be consequences of a less pleasant sort, as well.
If you decide you’d rather not live at all, you are free to take your life, so long as you’re not counting on being able to change your mind, once it is done.
If you want to be happy, sages and philosophers of all times have had ideas on the subject that might help you, as regards what they believe leads to lasting and enduring happiness. If you want to be unhappy, it’s probably not hard to accomplish, with or without sage advice.
If you experience the intellectual or emotional need for an ulterior purpose to your life–i.e., life cannot be an end in itself, nor its own justification–then you’ll probably be happier as a believer. If you’re unable to believe–for intellectual reasons, or otherwise–but still feel the need for an ulterior purpose to your life, then you’ll probably want to hope that life has an ulterior purpose, or remain hope-fully agnostic on the question. There are worse prejudices or articles of faith in the world, than to believe that this life has immense purpose and value, and is a means to something greater or “higher.”
For other non-believers, life is an end in itself and its own justification – like the taste of strawberry ice cream. Or like a dance and a celebration. The experience is an end in itself and precludes the need to analyze it further, or to dissect it logically (“we kill to dissect”). The nature of life is a dance. For many of these, it is the very brevity of life that adds to its preciousness, and that makes all experiences stand out in vivid relief. It is a deep and abiding pleasure to be alive and to be conscious, and this–for them–is enough (“The more joyful and secure the spirit becomes, the more man unlearns loud laughter. On the other hand, a spiritual smile is continually welling up in him: a sign of his astonishment at the countless hidden pleasures existence contains.”–Friedrich Nietzsche).
Believers and non-believers alike often have reported that, when they know the end is near, or when they have had brushes with death–acutely aware of the fragility of life–every moment suddenly seems more precious, and life becomes hyper-real.
If you (hypothetical “you”) want to smoke cigarettes, you are free to do so; but there may be consequences.
If you want to drink yourself into a stupor every night, you are free to do so; again, there may be consequences.
If you want to live only for yourself, without any friends and without trusting anybody, and without anyone having reason to trust you, it is your choice; there may be advantages (short term or otherwise), but there may be consequences of a less pleasant sort, as well.
If you decide you’d rather not live at all, you are free to take your life, so long as you’re not counting on being able to change your mind, once it is done.
If you want to be happy, sages and philosophers of all times have had ideas on the subject that might help you, as regards what they believe leads to lasting and enduring happiness. If you want to be unhappy, it’s probably not hard to accomplish, with or without sage advice.
If you experience the intellectual or emotional need for an ulterior purpose to your life–i.e., life cannot be an end in itself, nor its own justification–then you’ll probably be happier as a believer. If you’re unable to believe–for intellectual reasons, or otherwise–but still feel the need for an ulterior purpose to your life, then you’ll probably want to hope that life has an ulterior purpose, or remain hope-fully agnostic on the question. There are worse prejudices or articles of faith in the world, than to believe that this life has immense purpose and value, and is a means to something greater or “higher.”
For other non-believers, life is an end in itself and its own justification – like the taste of strawberry ice cream. Or like a dance and a celebration. The experience is an end in itself and precludes the need to analyze it further, or to dissect it logically (“we kill to dissect”). The nature of life is a dance. For many of these, it is the very brevity of life that adds to its preciousness, and that makes all experiences stand out in vivid relief. It is a deep and abiding pleasure to be alive and to be conscious, and this–for them–is enough (“The more joyful and secure the spirit becomes, the more man unlearns loud laughter. On the other hand, a spiritual smile is continually welling up in him: a sign of his astonishment at the countless hidden pleasures existence contains.”–Friedrich Nietzsche).
Believers and non-believers alike often have reported that, when they know the end is near, or when they have had brushes with death–acutely aware of the fragility of life–every moment suddenly seems more precious, and life becomes hyper-real.
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Sair
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snarflemike
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But I haven’t even been given my lines! What play is this, and why am I in it?
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Viewscreen
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First, understand that it is your life and no one else’s. Not your colleague’s, not your mother or father’s, and certainly not any god’s. Only you know what your deepest and most sincere desires are. Why not just be yourself and just do… what you love doing? If that leads you to God, all well and good. If it leads to atheism… then you can repent and become an agnostic like me.
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snarflemike
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Can just being myself lead to evil? If so, what then?First, understand that it is your life and no one else’s. Not your colleague’s, not your mother or father’s, and certainly not any god’s. Only you know what your deepest and most sincere desires are. Why not just be yourself and just do… what you love doing? If that leads you to God, all well and good. If it leads to atheism… then you can repent and become an agnostic like me.
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Viewscreen
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So be evil. Try it out, and see if it works for you. If you get tired of being evil, you can opt for good again.
To be honest though, I sense a lot of fear in you. And if you want to truly be yourself you have to give up such fearful questioning. I think, at least.
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snarflemike
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I’m actually not asking about my own life at all. I’m really asking about everyone, anyone. How should a person live his life, and why? Seems like a reasonable question for the “Philosophy” forum.
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Viewscreen
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It is a reasonable question, I think. But I think people make it out to be more reasonable than it actually is. You can’t change your basic self just by thinking. Sometimes analytical means aren’t enough to tell you your destiny. They certainly aren’t for me.
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Bradski
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Lines? It’s improv. You make it up as you go along. The play is ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’, a one act play. You are extremely lucky to have been given a part. Make the very most of it.
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