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NOT A FAIR QUESTION.

We can’t base our self-worth on something that’s largely out of our control.

The concept of time deludes us into concerning ourselves with its passing and impending arrival.

Because time is an illusion, which makes being controlled by time somewhat delusional.

The past doesn’t exist and neither does the future. The only true reference point we have to this moment in time, and to this thing we label “existence”, is a feeling of presence, of being here in this body, of seeing the world through these eyes. You can’t feel the past or the future, but you can feel what it feels like to touch something right now, to see something, to hear something.

It is important that we understand that to not be present is to be torn between two worlds, the past and the future, neither of which exist. To constantly reside in this state prevents us enjoying life and finding happiness, as we become victims of the past and a slave to a future that is yet to unravel.

Without time, the concept of when would not exist.

Time is infused into all that we do. Your very existence is designed by time. We check compulsively check time because we’ve conditioned ourselves to deem time as imperative to our survival.

If we don’t know what time it is — how the hell do we function?

So Just how free are we to live our own life as we want to?

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We are not alone.

Other people can dictate many of the circumstances of our life. But, does that mean we are creatures of circumstance? Or can we still be the architects of our own life? Are we at the mercy of circumstances? Or is it rather that we ourselves create the circumstances, and therefore must accept responsibility for what we do?

Yes, of course, we are creatures of circumstances, to a large certain extent.

There are countless things, all around us in life, that are beyond our control , but we have the power of personal choice. We can decide how we live our life, what we think, what we do, what we love, what we hate. Circumstances do challenge our choices, but they never destroy our personal freedom if we become the architect of our circumstances.

Today’s way of life teaches you that you have to be busy to be seen as successful. And if you’re not stressed, then there must be something wrong with you. Moreover, you can’t just fill your days to the brim with “stuff”—because there’s the added pressure of having to capture every moment so you can share the images, vision and stories that prove you’re getting ahead.

Whether we’re religious or not, all of us have the gift of life, full of excuses with the inevitable result?

Countless things get left undone, that should have been done. There’s no time to connect with what you’re doing or to really stop and wonder why it is you’re doing it. Besides, it felt like I’d gone too far down the road to give up everything I’d achieved and start again.

And that’s the crux of the issue right there.

Somewhere along the way, we had been taught that life had to be complex before we could get anywhere. And worse, we believed that if we’re to make it simpler then we had to give up everything we had.

Starting again is just too daunting to think about. It takes you straight to overwhelm, at which point everything seems too hard. When you’re in that state, staying where you are—and living life the way you’re already living it—seems to be less painful than walking away and having to begin again.

The truth is this:

A simple life is about finding the things that are important to you and then creating the simplest pathway to have them in your life. There’s also no label that comes with having a simple life either, so you don’t have to pigeonhole yourself in any way.

That’s it.

We’re all unique, extraordinary human beings… so we need unique and extraordinary solutions that provide solutions for our own lives.

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Why are we here on this earth?

Human intelligence was born in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, as our ape ancestors evolved increasingly bigger brains. But our ape ancestors might never even have existed. 65 million years ago, dinosaurs dominated the Earth, as they had done for over 160 million years.

How have we ended up as the most advanced species on a small blue-green planet, orbiting a seemingly insignificant star, in one of the hundred billion galaxies in the Universe?

Earth’s surface that travels at a speed of seven miles every second. That makes us the only creature on Earth – possibly the only creature in our galaxy, or even our Universe – to have left its home world.

So how did we become such a unique animal?

Why am I here on earth? Where did I come from? What am I worth? Do I have any intrinsic value? Do I serve a purpose? These are all fundamental questions. They are life’s “big questions.”

How you answer these questions determines how you see the world and how you treat the world. Because you are a part of the world, how you see the world also determines how you see and treat yourself. So, it’s important that we resolve these fundamental questions. And it’s important that we discover the honest truth. Wrong answers to important questions aren’t helpful.

Why Am I Here? – The Atheistic Worldview
Why I am here? Well, if God doesn’t exist, that means that life must have come about through some natural impersonal, unintelligent, and ultimately purposeless process. That means we’re ultimately as purposeless as the very process which brought us into existence. Life’s just an accident and so are you.

Without a Creator in the beginning, there was nobody around to put you here on purpose which means you aren’t here for a reason. It’s that simple.

Why Am I Here? – The Theistic Worldview
Why am I here? Well, if God does exist, that means He is ultimate reality. If He created you for a reason, that’s ultimately why your here. If you’re valuable to Him, that’s ultimately what you’re worth. What He says is right is absolutely right and what He says is wrong is absolutely wrong. We may be free moral agents with the freedom to make moral decisions, but that doesn’t mean we can choose what actually is right or wrong; that just means we’re capable of choosing to be right or wrong.

The Omnipotence Paradox

The Omnipotence Paradox is a philosophical problem that challenges the idea of an all-powerful God. The paradox argues that if God is truly omnipotent, then he should be able to do anything, including things that are logically impossible. However, if God cannot do something that is logically impossible, then he is not truly omnipotent. This paradox has been debated by philosophers for centuries and continues to be a topic of discussion in modern times.

The basic form of the Omnipotence Paradox can be presented as follows:

Can God create a stone so heavy that he cannot lift it? If God can create such a stone, then he is not omnipotent because he cannot lift it. If God cannot create such a stone, then he is also not omnipotent because there is something he cannot do. 

So don’t begin by asking, “Why am I here?” Begin by asking, “Does God exist?” If He doesn’t exist there’s really no point in asking “why am I here?” – everything is ultimately pointless. And if He does exist, you’ll discover your reason for living when you discover who He is. So begin at the beginning. Does God exist?

Belief in the existence of God (or gods) is definitional of theism and characteristic of many (though not all) religious traditions .Arguments for the existence of God are usually classified as either a priori or a posteriori—that is, based on the idea of God itself or based on experience.

It may be possible (or impossible) to prove the existence of God, but it may be unnecessary to do so in order for belief in God to be reasonable.

This post is not about the existence of a God even it was true to all arguments for or against, merely deflect the question to that of who created God.  Life will take care of the rest.

The world’s population stands at 7.91 billion in January 2022, with the annual growth rate of 1.0 percent suggesting that this figure will reach 8 billion sometime in mid-2023.

Well over half (57.0 percent) of the world’s population now lives in urban areas.

More than two-thirds (67.1 percent) of the world’s population now uses a mobile phone, with internet penetration now standing at 62.5 percent of the world’s total population, with 58.4 percent of the world’s total population using social media. 12½ trillion hours spent online, a new milestone in internet adoption, and new records for social media use…

424 million users started their social media journey over the past year, equating to an average of more than 1 million new users per day, or roughly 13½ new users every single second. 

Within the context of social media — when it’s not clear that people are necessarily engaging in real self presentation and there’s a lot of ideal-self or false-self presentation — is that good?”

I always think of social media as mapping our social lives in the mass media, where everyone can interact with you and judge your every move. Social media has become an important part of our lives whether we like it or not.

When you pull out your phone to take a photo, are you planning to share it on social media? Why is it so important that people – most of whom you’ve never met – see the minutiae of your daily life?

The fact is that when we use social media we’re being tracked and we’re being manipulated.

Social media gives us a different perspective on where we fit in the world,. 

I want us to think about how we quantify our experience in a way that isn’t really up to us – it’s based on algorithms and other people. If we really want to understand the effect social media is having on our lives, we need to move away from just thinking about the time spent on it, to how that time is used.

“I want people to think about how weird it is that we’re posting pictures of our experiences just for the ‘likes’ and the ‘shares’

Growing up with digital technology may be changing teen brain development in ways we don’t yet know — and these changes may, in turn, change how teens relate to technology.

But not everything in life is clearly yes or clearly no – like or don’t like, share or don’t share. I worry that we’re losing sight of being OK with ambiguity. Just because there’s no ‘maybe’ button, it doesn’t mean everything is black and white.

The Covid pandemic highlighted just how beholding to social media our lives have become. It’s how young people organise mass climate change protests, but also how anti-vaxxers spread dangerous misinformation.

Current 24-hour news cycle is just one example of our growing information consumption, contributing to a hidden epidemic of ‘digital un-wellbeing’.

Social media has changed the way we live our lives and will continue to do so in the future.

However the hope has to be that with its help we are realizing that all life is interconnected.

Wherever you are, commit to being there, completely. 

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