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College Admissions: Meaning of Life In approaching the meaning of life we have to examine the nature of meaning itself. Meaning is by definition the point, or the intended goal. Consider the point of humans and the universe as seen from monotheistic religion. If life and the universe is some sort of toy or form of entertainment for some prime mover, his point, his own entertainment, would then be the meaning of humans and the universe. Consider the goals of the deities of various cultures. Some strive for a balance between the forces of 'good' and 'evil'. This balance seems to simply be a choice of the deity, the way he thinks it ought to be. The concept of a prime mover as a source of the meaning of life is flawed, because in talking about an actual point to absolutely everything, we are simply considering the goals of a being more powerful than ourselves who has chosen one of many possible goals that humans can conceive of. This is to say that, if a god like this exists, his goal for life and the universe is not necessarily valid as a meaning of life, the universe, and himself. For instance, the Bible claims that the Christian deity created the universe and placed humans in it that they might be in awe of his power. If this is so, why is worship the correct response? The meaning of the universe as created by God is the entertainment of God, but what is the meaning of the larger system containing God and his creations? We could conceive of an even 'primer' mover, but that simply takes us all the way back into the wall of infinite regression. When I first read the Bible, it struck me as neutral on the idea of worship. The Bible flat out tells you that God created humans so that they would be in awe of him, which amounts to saying God created us to inflate his ego. We are to God as our pets are to ourselves, sources of unconditional love. In the book of Job, God essentially makes a gentleman's bet with Satan that Job's worship is genuine and not inspired by God's kindness. In other words, you throw a rock at my dog and I'll swing my arm so it looks I threw it, and we'll see if he still comes when I call him. In the end, Job is not simply the dog, because he questions God's throwing of the rock. God's response is consistent with his goal of inspiring awe. Even though the idea of a bet with Satan is well within Job's grasp, God claims that his purpose was inconceivable to Job. God is simply fortifying the concept that is critical to the continuance of human worship: that with inconceivable power comes incredible intelligence and unknowable purpose. The narrator of the Bible, which is supposedly God himself, speaking through humans, never directly says that he should be worshipped. This is merely the interpretation of humans, who may be created in God's image with one crucial difference, the need to worship. Perhaps then, God is after the meaning of life. Imagine a being so powerful as to be able to create and mould the universe, who, like Roman and Greek gods, is only marginally more intelligent than his creations. Perhaps God, in all his ridiculous power, cannot change himself. In order to find the meaning of his own existence he creates the human race so that we might evolve to an intelligence greater than his own, in much the same way that a computer programmer wishes to create true AI, an intelligence greater than human, which might 'evolve' within a computer. We are given the title of pet and the instinct of worship while the creator waits for a companion in the search for meaning. Of course this is wrong, or I would have been struck by a lightning bolt during that last sentence and brought to God's side. Or perhaps God is not aware of his own success yet, or perhaps I am not the first to uncover God's purpose, and my predecessor is debating meaning with God as we speak. Or perhaps I am intended to continue to search from the perspective that has proved so useful. In any case, this may amount to Christianity being a giant misunderstanding. At the very least, it means I can walk up to a Christian, tell him I believe in God and everything in the Bible, and ask him what the candles and the cathedrals are for. Back again to the one and only point: if a meaning exists it is not necessarily the purpose of our creation or existence. It has a larger scope, and can refer to the meaning of the existence of the being or force creating us, if such a force exists. This whole essay may seem simply a chance to bash Christianity and give intelligence even more of a right to inspire ego. Yet is not the egotism that is present in celebrating the most Godlike trait in man, his intelligence, more forgivable and less blinding than the egotism of equating the meaning of ourselves to the meaning of the universe?
...If we learn anything for the White Man, we could at least learn about how he treats his own kind.
"Sarah, we need your help in the Ukraine this summer. Can I count on you?" This question changed my life profoundly. I was asked to be a counselor on JOLT, Jewish Oversees Leadership Program, an opportunity to interact with young campers in an impoverished country and positively influence their lives. Little did I realize that this experience would impact mine so greatly.
Carter G. Woodson was born shortly after the end of slavery. He was an educational expert and the 2nd African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University. He wrote the Miseducation of the Negro in 1933 to investigate how efficient the current education structure was for African Americans based upon his expertise in the education and history fields. The book was written during the Harlem Renaissance movement that represented the flowering of a distinctive African Americans expressions. He wrote this book to make the negroes realize that they too can do anything that a white man can do. He states that white people are the oppressor of the negroes. As teachers, they continued to expand on the
Writing a self-reflective tirade is perhaps one of the most difficult tasks to perform. I have found myself pondering this topic for an unusually long time; no one has ever asked me to write about my culture-- the one thing about myself which I understand the least. This question which is so easy for others to answer often leads me into a series of convoluted explanations, "I was born in the U.S., but lived in Pakistan since I was six. My brothers moved to the US when I was thirteen" I am now nearly twenty, which means I have spent half my life being Pakistani, the other half trying to be American, or is the other way around?
In the beginning of Job we see God sacrifice Job to Satan’s tests. God is a just and forgiving being but in this piece of the story God allows Job to be tortured even though he did nothing wrong. After Job has been ripped apart by Satan, we see Job question God’s justice for Job does not understand what he has done to receive this treatment. Job continues to suffer and grieve his current situation and even has friends tell him that he must be in the wrong and still God says nothing to Job. God continues to not communicate with Job which is very different from how he handled his relationships with his followers in Genesis. When God does finally communicate with Job it does not seem that it is solely to rescue him from his sufferings but to lay to rest the accusations of Job’s friends about God’s ways. God speaks to Job’s friends as if he does not know them. In the Book of Job is where we see that God has begun to allow his people to form relationships with him if they chose. God does not impose himself on them like he did with Adam and Eve. If the people come to him and form a relationship with him then he will begin to bless
It is our primary purpose and the reason we’re here. “You were created to worship. God wants you to know His redemption so you will desire to worship and praise Him.” Tozer says. It’s just so funny to me how even Christians miss this. We wander around living our lives asking silly questions like “Why was I born?” but the whole time God had such a simple and specific plan laid for us. I love this quote, “I believe that He (God) created man out of no external necessity. I believe it was an internal necessity. God, being the God He was and is, and being infinitely perfect and infinitely beautiful, and infinitely glorious, and infinitely admirable and infinitely loving, out of His own inward necessity has to have some creature that was capable of admiring Him and loving Him and knowing Him.” God’s purpose for us was to recognize His beauty. To admire the gloriousness and vastness of who He is. It’s so simple but we miss it! We ask “Where’s God calling me to go?”, “What has He created me to do?”, “What’s my job gonna be?”, “What’s my ministry gonna be?” and we spend all this time, asking all these questions, but if we just started with the fact that we are first worshippers of an Almighty God I wonder how quickly we would be able to answer all the other questions. It says, “The most godlike thing in the universe is the soul of man.” He created us in his own image to be close to Him. Because that’s all He desires from us. “Man is better qualified to appreciate God than any other creature because he was made in His image and is the only creature who was.” (Tozer) And we see this in Genesis at the creation of man. It says, Genesis 1:26a Then God said, “Let us make human beings[a] in our image, to be like us.” He made us like Him so we could connect with Him in an intimate and meaningful
The action in Force 10 from Navarone mainly takes place is Yugoslavia. Mallory, Miller and Andrea, all men, has just got home from Navarone when they are sent into another mission. The mission is in Yugoslavia.
Everything in this world has an identity and a meaning. A meaning for why it was created, a meaning for what it is and a meaning for why it is physically where it is. Just take a second to stop and think. Think about all of the objects that are around us every single day. If each one of us is put in the same room and asked to explain what we see, just about all of us will be able to give an explanation. We all will be able to explain what we see, but not every explanation is going to be the same. Not every person is going to see everything someone else sees and not every person is going to explain something in the same way everyone else does. There aren’t interpretations carved in stone for every object telling us what is right. Every person
Architectural design today has moved from designing by hand to designing with several different software programs that have made the job much easier. Two of the main programs in many architectural firms today are AutoCAD2000 and ArchiCAD 6.5. Both are very productive design tools but each has its own defects in certain areas of the design process.
The crucial importance and relevance of economics related disciplines to the modern world have led me to want to pursue the study of these social sciences at a higher level. My study of Economics has shown me the fundamental part it plays in our lives and I would like to approach it with an open mind - interested but not yet fully informed.
In my search to find the meaning of life, all I have ever found is an incomplete conclusion. I have found that all of nothing means something and that everything happens for a very distinct reason. You may be too blind or too stubborn to realize it at first, but the reasoning can always be found just under the surface. When I fell in love with Sean, he was the only thing that mattered to me. Loving him was the only thing in my life that ever made any sense; I had developed a beautiful subconscious dependence to him. Not realizing it at the time, falling in love with him would change my life forever in more ways than I could have ever foreseen.
CAD, computer-aided design, originating after WWII in 1957, was born. This program allowed software to aid in the design of products created a standard user interface and incorporate tools to help designers create their product. In the 1970’s, 2D CAD design evolved into 3D CAD design and was taken more seriously, being incorporated into automotive, aerospace, and other industries (Miller, 1897). A little later, Autodesk formed and released their first significant program in 1983 for an IBM PC (Ottosson, 1998). For the past centuries, engineers had been using complex mathematical and scientific equations which were made completely irrelevant within a decade with the introduction and improvement of CAD modeling. Fast forward to today, Autocad is still a leading CAD modeling program and has included many pertinent features allowing designers to perform an analysis, gather data from a mock stress and heat test, view the product in other materials, virtual reality, and more relevant tools, all before even creating their first prototype (Miller,
The meaning of life is a very confusing question but to be able to answer it you must realize that it differs for everyone. There is never only one real answer. Everyday it can change for each individual. Everyone has their own way of living; they have their own thoughts and beliefs so therefore each persons answer to the meaning of life will be their own private version.
I have always been to asking myself what is meaning of life? or what I supposed to do ? or what I have to achieve? . Meaning of life what 's you have been given? what you have given by different kind of human? Or what I believe or what I do not believe in life .Everybody have Meaning of life it depends between person to person, I found myself when I was young because my parents always talk about experience in their life.Throughout my entire life ,I have wondered about the significance meaning of life that has beneficial for the people, because the life is beginning odds and ending odds .Even though struggle of life, I believe meaning of life are ,regional ,ambition, participate ,achievement ,and happiness .Due to this, I
And our purpose as humans, is to worship and glorify our Creator. Not to be autonomous, not to feel good, not to be the most successful but to only glorify our Creator. The purpose of the bible is for God to communicate to his creations how to worship Him. Throughout the bible God is giving His will to his people. The people of Israel, the Jews, the Gentiles, were given the will of God, through prophets, Moses, Abraham, Jesus Christ and so on. We are given the word of God. Since we are fallen creatures and fully depraved we need to follow God’s will that he gives up. And when we disobey and turn against God, he has the redemptive plan for us so that we still maintained saved. The Bible’s purpose is to communicate God’s redemptive message. That is the reason that the old testament has Messianic allusions or foreshadowing. It prophesies the plan that God has to save us from our own depravity. Although, the world has fallen and Satan has overtaken the world for the time being, we are still able to choose God’s