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@fmf said
An ordinary Muslim friend. There is no need for you to add anything like "state of stress" to what I said. Just an ordinary believer pondering the hamster's wheel and sending out a there's-more-to-life message on WhatsApp.

"...a Muslim friend who has to work night noon and morn to make ends meet".

Sounds stressful to me. No wonder your friend said there must be more to life than just busting his balls for a living, then in exhausting desperation say, "God didn't create you to earn money and then die".

Now your OP is starting to make sense.

-Removed-

Try to think divegeester.

There's "your response", the quote in the OP, and the "context from which it(the quote) was taken".

@secondson said
"...a Muslim friend who has to work night noon and morn to make ends meet".

Sounds stressful to me.

An ordinary terdious reality ~ a hamster's wheel ~ for maybe 150 million people in this country, and one they mostly take in their stride. "Stressful" is a word you are adding, apparently in a rather ramshackle effort to be contrary.

@secondson said
Sounds stressful to me. No wonder your friend said there must be more to life than just busting his balls for a living, then in exhausting desperation say, "God didn't create you to earn money and then die".

"Exhausting desperation"?

You have to add all this stuff just to understand a few words on a t-shirt?

It's a "there are more important things in life" slogan on a t-shirt.

Stress? Desperation? Exhausted?

@secondson said
No wonder your friend said "God didn't create you to earn money and then die".

She just took a photograph of a t-shirt. And posted it to WhatsApp along with a photo of her lunch, one of her kid wearing a mask, and a load of motorcycles at a red light. That's all.

@fmf said
"Exhausting desperation"?

You have to add all this stuff just to understand a few words on a t-shirt?

It's a "there are more important things in life" slogan on a t-shirt.

Stress? Desperation? Exhausted?

So what you're saying is that while you're living in a country, making a good living at your cushy job, where a 150 million people are struggling to make a living working day and night, and one of them you know says there's more to life than imagining God created him just to earn money and die, and then you make it sound as if it's just a bumper sticker slogan.

And then you post a quote out of context in what appears to be just another thread started by you to foment an argument.

It appears to me you lack empathy for your fellow countrymen.

@fmf said
She just took a photograph of a t-shirt. And posted it to WhatsApp along with a photo of her lunch, one of her kid wearing a mask, and a load of motorcycles at a red light. That's all.

"God didn't create you to try to earn money and then die".

Are you worried? Are you thinking is that all there is? Make money and then die?

@secondson said
And then you post a quote out of context in what appears to be just another thread started by you to foment an argument.

It appears to me you lack empathy for your fellow countrymen.

I think it is a t-shirt that anyone could wear in any country if they or their friends were too absorbed in making a living and they wanted to broadcast a spiritual message that says "There's more to life than work".

@secondson said
It appears to me you lack empathy for your fellow countrymen.

If that is how it appears, that's ok by me. Meanwhile...

How about this:

"God created you in order that you believe in him and worship him and if you do, you will have everlasting life".

At the bare bones level, is there more to God's perceived purpose than that?

@secondson said
Are you worried? Are you thinking is that all there is? Make money and then die?

No not at all. I think my purpose in life is to love, to be loved, to learn, and to teach.

@secondson said
So what you're saying is that while you're living in a country, making a good living at your cushy job, where a 150 million people are struggling to make a living working day and night, and one of them you know says there's more to life than imagining God created him just to earn money and die, and then you make it sound as if it's just a bumper sticker slogan.

you make it sound as if it's just a bumper sticker slogan

Well it certainly sounds like deadpan irony, don't you think? It's a bit like "Life is a sexually transmitted disease". It's that kind ironic thing to say.

This is more positive and irony-free...

"God created you in order that you believe in him and worship him and if you do, you will have everlasting life".

But what's missing from it?

@fmf said
I think it is a t-shirt that anyone could wear in any country if they or their friends were too absorbed in making a living and they wanted to broadcast a spiritual message that says "There's more to life than work".

Then why didn't you just say so in your OP?

Everyone knows there's more to life than just work.

"God created you in order that you believe in him and worship him and if you do, you will have everlasting life".

At the bare bones level, is there more to God's perceived purpose than that?

Infinitely more.

@fmf said
No not at all. I think my purpose in life is to love, to be loved, to learn, and to teach.

Of course.

But God created you for much more.

@secondson said
Then why didn't you just say so in your OP?

It wasn't necessary. The OP and the question it poses is just fine.