GRATITUDE is the ATTITUDE

I am stopping by to say "hello" :)
I have been a member for a while.
I welcome your friendship :)

Lea @ Mother Baby Child & Weight Loss Help

I am grateful for everything positive and loving in my life... From the tiniest of miracles to most powerful of blessings I receive. Love always, Robin

Do You Make Loving Choices?

"For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored."
~Wayne Dyer

Please enjoy my newest post, Inner-Space, Our Final Frontier as Human Seekers-Part 5

"Beliefs are a recipe" ~unAsleep

and, you are the chef

Please check out my newest blog post, Inner-Space, Our Final Frontier as Human Seekers-Part 4

The absence or presence of greater purpose is as irrelevant as the finality of death. The claim that our lives are 'ultimately' meaningless does not make sense because there is no sense in which they could be meaningful or meaningless outside of how we regard them. Questions about the meaning of life are questions about values. We attribute values to things in life rather than discovering them. There can be no meaning of life outside of the meaning we create for ourselves because the universe is not a sentient being that can attribute values to things. Even if a sentient God existed, the value that he would attribute to our lives would not be the same as the value that we find in living and thus would be irrelevant.

What makes our lives meaningful is that we find the activities we engage in to be worthwhile. Our determination to carry out projects we have created for ourselves gives our lives meaning. We feel that life is meaningless when most of our desires which we regard as important are frustrated. Whether we regard life as meaningful or meaningless depends on the degree to which our important desires are frustrated. The judgments that we make about our lives on these points are the same regardless of whether one's life is eternal or not or whether it is part of a greater purpose or not. Perhaps the secret to a meaningful life is to focus on those desires which we can fulfill and diminish those which we cannot--provided that we know the difference between the two.

Footnotes:

[1] We have no more reason to believe that human consciousness continues to exist after death than we have to believe that water buffalo or other animals continue to have experiences after they have died. Furthermore, we have very strong evidence that consciousness depends on brain functioning and thus mental life ends when the brain dies (see The Scientific Case Against Immortality for a survey of this evidence).

Hi David,
Thank-you for inviting me to join your group. I have not logged on in a few months, but I now plan to log on at least twice a week.
Thank-you

Thanks for the invitation i;m looking forward to interacting with you. I am very lucky, I have so much to be grateful for already. Hope you and yours are great Stuart Henry.

Hi David..thank you, yes it will be great fun to be part of your group!