What Determines Your Ultimate Goals In Your Life?
Most Americans have about the same variation of lifetime goals and dreams. Most of us want to be successful and have a loving family, spouse, children, and friends. This is “The American Dream”.
My question is do your religious beliefs determine your lifetime goals? Is your reason for wanting a loving family to serve God, or to simply make yourself as happy as possible during this lifetime?
I am atheist and the above mentioned are my basic goals in life. (Success and a loving family.) I want to have children because I want to be a mother and create life. I want to be a wife to have someone to share my life with and to be cherished.
I realize not everyone wants these things but I am using broad examples for argument’s sake.
Do we all – Atheists, Christians, Pagan, etc alike want these things for the same reasons? Does everyone set these personal goals simply in order to be happy? Or do some set these goals in order to serve a higher power?
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As much as we are all different, I think we are all very much alike…
We want success, personal, financial and career…
We want to live in a nice home, take trips, and have free time.
But, Goldie Hawn said it best…when she was asked as a child, what she wanted to be when she grew up, her simply reply was….”I want to be happy”.
That is really all I want in life is to be happy…and I am, so I truly have what I truly want…
Yeah, wealth would be cool…and the free time it would afford me, would make me even happier…but, if I never have anything else in this world…I am at peace with what I have been given.
On the relative level we all want to live a nice life with less sofference as possible and in the better possible circunstance. Some woul like a family and success, some would like a monastery and a special clothe, some would like to be a good politician and so on.
In this environment, the environment we like when possible, we practice our life towards our goals and those differ according to one beliefs:
Christians and Muslims will have heaven to reach
so they will behave pray and help others
Buddhist wish to get enlightened so find back primordial purity….
they will also behave practice and help others
Atheists just enjoy this life
be more or less ethically correct and may be help others
circunstances are relative, goal is less relative in some cases
GOOD question! thanks!!!
FACT is that we all are creation of GOD whether we realize it not or not.
when we start to understand ourselves, we will start understand others much better. Then we will start love each other (same as GOD loves everyone). We are very different, but in BAD times we all return to GOD (that’s what makes US as people). and we’ll be judged by him, according our actions, and thoughts.
Very good question, and well stated.
I’m Mormon and single, no kids. In the Mormon faith family is a huge part of our cultural identity. And without going into it a lot, for many, MANY of us getting married and having children is ESSENTIAL to serving God (or a “higher power” as you put it). That we choose someone that can make us happy is also important, as we believe we will be married to that person for “time and all eternity”. Our term for it is to be “evenly yoked”, so selection of a spouse is important, but the thought of choosing to NOT get married when a worthy prospect presents itself is unheard of and akin to non-belief.
As a people with our own culture we do believe in striving for the same things you mentioned, but the reason why is decidedly and strongly planted in the “to serve a higher power” field.
If life is worthy to live and if it provides all the joy, the wonder, the beauty, the splendor, the love, the peace, the victory, the delight, the power, the knowledge, the wisdom, the mercy, the charity, the kindness, the justice, the compassion, the freedom, the individuality, the respect, the understanding and the sincere worship and adoration rendered to our Loving God Almighty, who alone can provide those list of holy desires and much, much more to those who seek Him, and to live under His grace with greater conditions of heavenly joy and happiness which is beyond our awareness and current comprehension; if that life which shall be endowed upon us with all that wonder and splendor for ever and ever, and ever more, then that would be exactly what determines my ultimate goal in life.
My goal is to make the world a better place by creating awareness for a just cause and rallying people to help out. My own personal cause is to help exploited children. I think that if I could raise more awareness for these kids then I can die a happy man.
I will ring your doorbell and run away!!!
I just want money
I have no personal goals or ultimate goal in life…that comes from the realization within my spirituality.
There is no lack…nothing to want. I am fulfilled and complete…right now.
~ Eric Putkonen
whim. I am totally controlled by whim. My perception of things constantly changes, to include good/bad.
whoops!! my B.