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What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of living is to ask that question, and to pursue its answer. We are not here to be a certain thing, but to become a certain thing. We must strive to be better than we are, for it is in the striving that purpose is found.
"The meaning of life is to make life meaningful."
I was told by a doctor long ago to watch out for horny people. They probably had a disease that had gone into the brain and the disease wants to pass on to another person.
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"The meaning of life is to make life meaningful."
I was told by a doctor long ago to watch out for horny people. They probably had a disease that had gone into the brain and the disease wants to pass on to another person.
The problem with reincarnation though is how do you learn from it if you don't remember your past life?.
1) A very small percentage of people do remember their past lives. Most often children remember such things until about age 5-8. A very few adults retain past life memories. If they're prone to deep introspective thinking & self improvement, they use their past life memories to make some sense of events in their lives, and draw lessons from their experiences.
2) For the majority of us who don't remember a darn thing before, say, age two in our current life, either we had no past life, or:
Let's compare lives to studying at school. Studying for a few hours at a time can become overwhelming and countereffective, as our brains need time to draw back & absorb & ponder what we've learned. So we take a break, go out for some fresh air, then come back to study when we're ready again.
So think of that void of memory before life as coming back to your studies refreshed with a cleansed mind. Ready to take on more learning...while somewhere deep down you've retained what you've learned from your past life.
Again, this is purely conjecture based on my experiences & studies over 40 years.
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