At 1/10/08 05:09 PM, reviewer-general wrote:
Even for Christians, what purpose is there besides biding your time until you can join God in Heaven, or, alternatively, Hell.
It's a lesson, it's a phase of development in a long chain of phases. In order to progress, we needed to live in the 3-dimensional world, have bodies, feel pain, suffer, and overcome... for the purpose of the experience and the lessons learned.
Life is supposed to be difficult for the purpose of the challenge, life is supposed to be confusing and random, and hard, otherwise nobody would gain from it.
Why did God create Man?
To facilitate the progression of his children - us.
Do we have a goal we're trying to accomplish? What?
Experience, and the facilitation, or rather the beginning of eternal life.
Was God lonely, or what the hell happened?
Before God created the world, we were already with him. Our spirits have been around for ever, so we weren't created for his amusement.
Give me a reason to keep on living. I see none.
Because life is a gift.
Even if you don't want to apply a religious connotation, think about it objectively:
You are a living being, in an enormous universe of inanimate, non-living material. You are literally a cosmic miracle. The chances that the atoms in your body, that were originally created in the center of a star, coalesced into a living, sentient being... they chances are astronomically small. You can either consider yourself LUCKY as fuck, or consider yourself to be blessed by an intentional, intelligent act by a creator.
The fact that someone is alive, given the nature of the universe, should be reason in itself to convince them not to squander it, regardless of whether or not they believe in God.