The Disturbing Theory of the Meaning of Life That Will Leave You Speechless
Let’s talk about living.
The chances of there being life after death are 50%.
- Case 1, there is no life: everything we do in this life doesn’t matter because we won’t remember having existed.
- Case 2, there is a kind of existence after death: everything we do in this life matters because it may serve as experience for the following form of existence.
And that is the key, the word “Experience”. (Assuming option 2, life after death)
Life is a blink of an eye between two eternities.
You are born, and you don’t know where you come from.
You die, and you don’t know where you are going.
What do you know?
- That you come with nothing, without any material possessions, for you are born naked.
- That you leave this world with nothing, without any material possessions.
If valuable objects were to travel with us to the other dimension, nothing would have been found inside the tombs of the pharaohs who were buried with their most precious objects. And their riches are still there in their tombs, gathering dust. :-)
Ergo, the only possible meaning of life is experience.
Always assuming that there is life after death (as a Christian, I believe there is), you can only take what you have learned through your experiences.
So, the true capital is not money but the experience of interacting with the environment and people.
Therefore, filling your soul’s bank account is much more important than your bank’s.
The only thing you will take away from this existence is experience dollars, not paper dollars.
The perfect metaphor for this is the parable of the talents in the bible, where what you had to do was to invest the talents that the lord gave you to return the benefit on his return, and one of the servants instead of making these talents yield, hides them (does nothing, does not accumulate experience) and that is the one who is reprimanded.
This brings us to the fact that the real enemy is inaction.
The meaning of life and its opposite.
On the other hand, since we live in a dual world, there must be a down for our up: a “counter-sense of life” for our “sense of life.”
And if the meaning of life is “to experience,” which implies “action.”
The counter-sense of life is “not to experience,” which implies “inaction.”
Ergo,
- Action = experience = spiritual dollars for the afterlife.
- Inaction = no experience = spiritual bankruptcy for the afterlife.
So, beware of laziness.
Laziness weakens us because it causes us not to accumulate spiritual wealth.
When we refuse to experience things and anesthetize our souls with passive entertainment, we atrophy our capacity to experience things and don’t accumulate spiritual capital for the next life.
Conclusion
I do not know if this life will be a simulation or not, as Elon Musk says; it looks like a place where we come to learn, and whoever refuses to learn ends up failing the exam.
Therefore, my advice is to live experiences and not be passive.
Don’t see money as the enemy. It can help you to live many experiences.
But don’t forget that it is the actions that count.
The real enemy of your spiritual progress is laziness and inactivity.
Think about the idea that we come to this world with nothing and leave with nothing, and realize that if the consciousness survives the body, what we take with us is what we have learned.
Meditate on this idea; you will be speechless.
You will begin to get rid of your fear of doing things, and you will start to undertake boldly because you will understand that the actual capital of life is not to accumulate paper dollars but to accumulate vital experience points for the next phase (whatever it may be) of existence.
And suppose you don’t get your life experience points. What I call spiritual dollars, very possibly (if there is life after death), you will be spiritually homeless because your capital (your experiences) will be almost null.
So pay attention to this phrase of Alber Camus: True generosity towards the future consists in giving everything to the present”. And start doing things; whether you win or lose, you will accumulate spiritual dollars :-)
A virtual hug
AG
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