What is The Meaning of Life?

Life

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  • To realize one’s potential and ideals
  • To achieve biological perfection
  • To seek wisdom and knowledge
  • To do good, to do the right thing
  • Meanings relating to religion
  • To love, to feel, to enjoy the act of living
  • To have power, to be better
  • Life has no meaning
  • One should not seek to know and understand the meaning of life
  • Antinatalism

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Who Creates Life And Death?

Who Creates Life And Death? This article covers the answer to the question: “Who creates life and death?” O friend! This temporary world is like a field. It is a place of instruction, a market. Without doubt a supreme tribunal and ultimate happiness will succeed it. If you deny this, you...

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Dream Argument

Dream Argument The dream argument is the postulation that the act of dreaming provides preliminary evidence that the senses we trust to distinguish reality from illusion should not be fully trusted, and therefore, any state that is dependent on our senses should at the very least be carefully examined and...

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Precognition

What Is Precognition ? Precognition (from the Latin prae-, “before” and cognitio, “acquiring knowledge“), also called prescience, future vision, future sight is a claimed psychic ability to see events in the future. As with other paranormal phenomena, there is no accepted scientific evidence that precognition is a real effect and it is widely considered to be pseudoscience. Precognition also appears to violate the...

Friendship

Friendship

Friendship Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people. Friendship is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an association. Friendship has been studied in academic fields such as communication, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and philosophy. Various academic theories of friendship have been proposed, including social exchange theory, equity...

Lucid Dream

Lucid Dream

What Is A Lucid Dream? A lucid dream is a dream during which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming. During a lucid dream, the dreamer may gain some amount of control over the dream characters, narrative, and environment; however, this is not actually necessary for a dream to be described...

Daydreaming

Daydream

What Is Daydream? Daydreaming is the stream of consciousness that detaches from current, external tasks when attention drifts to a more personal and internal direction. This phenomenon is common in people’s daily life shown by a large-scale study in which participants spend 47% of their waking time on average on daydreaming....

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Night Terror

What Is Night Terror? Night terror, also known as sleep terror, is a sleep disorder causing feelings of terror or dread typically occurring during the first hours of stage 3–4 non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep  and lasting for 1 to 10 minutes. They can last longer, especially in children. Sleep terrors are...

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Nightmare

What Is A Nightmare? A nightmare, also called a bad dream, is an unpleasant dream that can cause a strong emotional response from the mind, typically fear but also despair, anxiety and great sadness. However, psychological nomenclature differentiates between nightmares and bad dreams, specifically, people remain asleep during bad dreams whereas nightmares...

Déjà Vu

Déjà Vu

What Is Déjà Vu? Déjà vu is the feeling that one has lived through the present situation before. The phrase translates literally as “already seen“. Although some interpret déjà vu in a paranormal context, mainstream scientific approaches reject the explanation of déjà vu as “precognition” or “prophecy“. Rather, they explain it as an anomaly...

Dreamcatcher

Dreamcatcher

What Is A Dreamcatcher? In some Native American cultures, a dreamcatcher or dream catcher (asabikeshiinh, the inanimate form of the word for “spider”) is a handmade willow hoop, on which is woven a net or web. The dreamcatcher may also include sacred items such as certain feathers or beads. Traditionally they are often...

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Dream Interpretation

Dream Interpretation Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many ancient societies, such as those of Egypt and Greece, dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention, whose message could be interpreted by people with these associated spiritual powers. In modern times, various schools of psychology and...

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Dreams

Dreams While you sleep with your eyes closed, your ears deaf, your tongue mute, and your arms and legs motionless, how do you travel, meet people, and do many things in a few minutes or even seconds? When you get up in the morning, you feel deeply influenced by that...

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Is Death The Extinction Of Life Or Is It Created As A Bounty?

Is Death The Extinction Of Life Or Is It Created As A Bounty? Is death dissolution, a non-existence, decay, the extinction of life or is it created as a bounty? “Who creates death and life that He may try you, which of you is the best in conduct” Death is...

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Death And Eternity

Death And Eternity This article is about Death And Eternity. Man has an intrinsic feeling of eternity; he feels imprisoned in the narrow confines of the material world and always yearns for eternity. Whoever hearkens to man’s conscious nature will hear it pronouncing eternity over and over again. If a...

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Death Is An Argument And Proof For Divine Oneness

Death Is An Argument And Proof For Divine Oneness This article covers the relationship between death and Divine Oneness that death is an argument and proof for Divine Oneness. Just as life, which manifests the Divine Grace, is an argument and proof for Divine Unity, indeed even a sort of...

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What Is The Purpose Of Death?

What Is The Purpose Of Death? This article covers the purpose of death. Although we are confined in this impermanent material world, every one of us has an inborn feeling and yearning for eternity. Our desire for the eternal life is so great that the whole universe would not be...

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What Does A Man Feel Time Of Death?

What Does A Man Feel Time Of Death? This article covers the answer to the question: “What Does A Man Feel Time Of Death?“ At the time of death, believers experience the opening of windows from their places in Paradise. Prophet Muhammad stated that the souls of such people are...

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Is Death Something To Be Feared?

Is Death Something To Be Feared? For those who believe and do righteous deeds, death is not something to be feared. Although, in appearance, it is decomposition and seems to extinguish the light of life and to destroy pleasures, in fact, it is a discharge from the heavy duties of...

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Appointed Time Of Death

Appointed Time Of Death This article covers appointed time of death and the Angel of Death. Were The Times Of Death Of Those Who Die in A Disaster Destined To Be Simultaneous? The appointed time of death is the end of the predetermined life-span of a living creature. This inevitable...

Euthanasia

Religious Views On Euthanasia

Religious Views On Euthanasia There are many religious views on euthanasia, although many moral theologians are critical of the procedure. Buddhism There are many views among Buddhists on the issue of euthanasia, but many are critical of the procedure. An important value of Buddhism teaching is compassion. Compassion is used...