Originally posted by KingOnPoint
SwissGambit,
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And once you do, you'll be dismayed that it took you so long. Real life is amazingly refreshing, should you care to experience it.
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What is so great about this human experience? Gaining the "whole world" is not enough when compared to losing my own soul. This human experience is a humanly hurtf ...[text shortened]... gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
You will never know what, if anything, about your human experience can be great until you try.
Life is not all hurtful.
Whether I want to settle for this life, or strive for more, is irrelevant to the reality that I get a few decades of life on this earth, and then -poof- - nothing. I can sit looking out my window, pining for what I cannot have, or I can embrace what I can have, and enjoy it for what it is. I choose the latter.
I know my life will end. That's OK. All life ends. It is the nature of things. I accept it. You should too, if you are really convinced that this earthly life is so miserable.
It's sad that you tell me my life has nothing great, because it makes me think that really it is your life that has nothing great. After all, you have no basis at all for claiming that I don't have anything great.
What will you do, at the end, when you realize that there are no souls? When you realize that you pissed away all your precious time here looking wistfully out the window for an imaginary heaven instead of actually living.