Is life in this world bizarre?

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No matter how I look at it, this life is bizarre. “Into this world, we’re thrown.” People, I think, get so caught up in life that they never realize just how bizarre it is.
 
Robert_Sock said:
No matter how I look at it, this life is bizarre. “Into this world, we’re thrown.” People, I think, get so caught up in life that they never realize just how bizarre it is.
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Its not bizarre to me.
 
Life is what it is. It is what we make of it. Many of us insist on making it complicated, bizarre, etc… others do not.
 
Who cares how “bizarre” our human life is, given that it enables us to breathe, move, smell, see, form and enjoy memories – and know our LORD? :):)🙂

Death is far more bizarre and hideous.

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Isn’t it so wondrously bizarre?! I love it!!! All those tiny structures, myriad creatures, molecules, reactions, details!! It is awesomely so bizarre!
 
Robert_Sock said:
No matter how I look at it, this life is bizarre. “Into this world, we’re thrown.” People, I think, get so caught up in life that they never realize just how bizarre it is.
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Bizarre must be a state of mind then. If people are so caught up in life they never realize that Robert Sock thinks the world is bizarre, then for them, life is **not **bizarre.
 
What’s amazing is that we can even contemplate our existence. Animals just live in the world. We can also contemplate it.
 
Robert_Sock said:
No matter how I look at it, this life is bizarre. “Into this world, we’re thrown.” People, I think, get so caught up in life that they never realize just how bizarre it is.
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You might be bizarre and, due to it, life could seem bizarre to you.
 
Robert_Sock said:
No matter how I look at it, this life is bizarre. “Into this world, we’re thrown.” People, I think, get so caught up in life that they never realize just how bizarre it is.
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I agree in a lot of ways. Because life, specifically the world of human affairs, operates on truths, half-truths, and outright lies. Original Sin manifests itself in a myriad of ways and we’re all affected by it. Things and people aren’t at all necessarily what they’re represented to be. Sin so often reigns, atrocities committed, the world of international politics threatens us all with dangerous and deadly futures. Not at all the way things “should be”. Death looms as a constant specter and yet it almost seems to be denied in our culture, more than simply ignored. I think many people sort of go through life mechanically, usually consumed with survival and/or striving to achieve some material goal or another, meanwhile not questioning why things are the way they are.

1 Pet 1:18 comes to mind too, "For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors,"
 
fhansen said:
I agree in a lot of ways. Because life, specifically the world of human affairs, operates on truths, half-truths, and outright lies. Original Sin manifests itself in a myriad of ways. Things and people aren’t at all necessarily what they’re represented to be. Sin so often reigns, atrocities committed, the world of international politics threatens us all with dangerous and deadly futures. Not at all the way things “should be”. Death looms as a constant specter and yet it almost seems to be denied in our culture, more than simply ignored. I think many people sort of go through life mechanically, usually consumed with survival and/or striving to acheive some material goal or another, meanwhile not questioning why things are the way they are
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As you say, things are the way they are, and if you are the kind of person who questions why they are so, it is because you are surprised, because you expected something else. And that is the way you are. Have you questioned why you are the way you are? Is that bizarre to you?
 
Death looms as a constant specter and yet it almost seems to be denied in our culture, more than simply ignored.
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Because it is so hideous and shameful that the only way to live life at all in its shadow, is to ignore it, or to howl in despair.

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GEddie said:
Because it is so hideous and shameful that the only way to live life at all in its shadow, is to ignore it, or to howl in despair.

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Not necessarily. You can accept in peace the fact that you will die as well and, meanwhile, continue doing your things as normal.
 
JuanFlorencio said:
As you say, things are the way they are, and if you are the kind of person who questions why they are so, it is because you are surprised, because you expected something else. And that is the way you are. Have you questioned why you are the way you are? Is that bizarre to you?
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To become Christian it’s pretty much essential to question, and reject, the more bizarre aspects of this life, rather than be comfortable with-and conform to the mores and actions of the world around us. The bottom line is that the values this life tries to foist upon us are so often completely worthless, skewed, and often harmful.in one way or another-and yet still often attractive to us. Human nature is quite a paradox in some ways if looked at honestly IMO.
 
fhansen said:
To become Christian it’s pretty much essential to question, and reject, the more bizarre aspects of this life, rather than be comfortable with-and conform to the mores and actions of the world around us. The bottom line is that the values this life tries to foist upon us are so often completely worthless, skewed, and often harmful.in one way or another-and yet still often attractive to us. Human nature is quite a paradox in some ways if looked at honestly IMO.
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It isn’t “life” that urges “values” upon us, but the social environment; go far enough away, and while you will find human beings with whom we share physical life, the “values” will be quite divergent.

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Bizarre does not have to be a negative thing. It can just mean things are strange and interesting. Maybe the OP can clarify:

Did you mean bizarre as in terribly grotesque and alarming?
Or bizarre as in incredibly interesting and full of wonder?

I myself might be strange in that I first think of “bizarre” as being a good thing. Life’s amazing! It’s bizarre! It’s full of wonder! Weirdness! And yes, also full of things we might view as normal. But even normal things if you think about them can be bizarrely amazing.

I think bizarre is just one of those words people like to first attach a negative connotation to when it doesn’t necessarily need to be so.
 
fhansen said:
To become Christian it’s pretty much essential to question, and reject, the more bizarre aspects of this life, rather than be comfortable with-and conform to the mores and actions of the world around us. The bottom line is that the values this life tries to foist upon us are so often completely worthless, skewed, and often harmful.in one way or another-and yet still often attractive to us. Human nature is quite a paradox in some ways if looked at honestly IMO.
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The paradox arises when you try to reduce reality to homogeneity in your interpretations of it. However, at least in the realm of discourses (or theories) -which are part of reality- there is heterogeneity. Given the fact, bizarre or not, that we are finite rational beings, this is not necessarily unexpected. Those discourses are heterogeneous first place because the experiences of one individual are always limited and not identical to the experiences of everybody else. So, you are never able to reduce reality to homogeneity in any of your interpretations: then, you see paradoxes.
 
GEddie said:
It isn’t “life” that urges “values” upon us, but the social environment; go far enough away, and while you will find human beings with whom we share physical life, the “values” will be quite divergent.

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And yet many of the values will still be just plain wrong, excessive, and ultimately harmful no matter where you go, relative to Eden, relative to God’s will for man-which is why Scripture urges us to not be conformed to this world but transformed by the renewing of our minds. The loss of innocence prevailing in this world reveals itself more and more clearly-as a foreign anomaly-as we grow closer to God.

And while I guess we can dissect the meaning of the word “life”-or just ask the OP his intent-even if we observe the life we’re born into just from its physical dimension apart from the actions of humans for good or ill, it’s still bizarre in many ways. Physical evil such as pain is extremely difficult to bare, and to reconcile with a loving God. The human body is an awesomely complex and beautiful thing which is simultaneously fragile, susceptible to the most awfully debilitating diseases, as well as the aging process that finally renders it a useless gob of dying flesh in any case. The animal and insect world sometimes seems wickedly dog-eat-dog, leaving one wondering why/how anyone would devise some of the more insidious, while admittedly extremely clever, means of survival for some species. Just some thoughts-that I think are sort of “comfortably” dismissed at times. But the reason that the gods of the ancients were quite whimsical, fearful, and untrustworthy is precisely because of the vagaries and dangers of nature for one thing- and the life they found themselves in. It’s only in the light of knowledge, mainly by divine revelation and grace, that we become increasingly aware that reason, goodness, and love lie at the foundation of the universe, in spite of an often confusing and tumultuous world.
 
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