The Sojourner’s Questions

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  • د. م. عبد الحميد مظهر
    ملّاح
    • 11-10-2008
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    The Sojourner’s Questions

    [align=center]The Sojourner’s Questions[/align]


    Life is a journey and a sojourner is someone who pauses, along the way while traveling from place to place, to ponder and think. Life is a journey, from birth to awakening to death. If you stop to think about it, no matter what you are doing, you are on a journey. And stopping to think about it is the whole point. Even if you try to remain perfectly still, you cannot avoid moving as a passenger on planet earth and through the series of life’s experiences.

    A sojourn is a rest stop, during which the traveler enjoys a brief time out from normal activities. A sojourn makes it possible to re-gather energy, to reflect on what has become before, and to prepare to set out again and continue traveling wherever it is he/she has decided to go. A sojourn can help you take the next step in a carefully considered direction. The sojourner’s questions concern both traveler and the meaning of the journey

    What is the point or purpose, if any, of the journey? Who am I? What am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning of life? And more important, perhaps, what is the meaning, if any, of my life? How should I think about the existence of the universe and my place in it as an individual? Am I just an animal or a conscious biological machine that has come about through a chance sequence of events through the forces of nature? Or is there a larger plan, which it might be my responsibility to discover and in accordance with which I should try to live my life? Is there a deeper meaning to be found, ore life altogether meaningless and devoid of any purpose? Is life, after all, as we might have heard some people say, absurd

    The sojourner’s questions arises only when we slow ourselves down enough to ask it, and only then, if we allow ourselves sufficient time to consider possible answers

    Taken and modified from
    Dale Jacquette, Six Philosophical Questions , McGraw-Hill Higher Education, USA, 2001


    التعديل الأخير تم بواسطة د. م. عبد الحميد مظهر; الساعة 06-05-2010, 17:43.
  • إيمان ملال
    أديبة وكاتبة
    • 07-05-2010
    • 161

    #2
    Hello there,
    Your topic remind me of some texts of Albert Einstein, in his book " The world as I see it ", and especially this paragraph :
    "How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving "






    In what conserned the text posted by you, I think these 6 questions are asked by every body, no matter what is his ideology or his religion or culture, because it is instinctif beings to ask these questions ( why am I here ? Am I free to do what I want or not ? etc..)

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    As a summary, I can add, as a definition of human, that human is a Quizzical Animal, by typical of " a social animal or political animal .

    Asking questions is a human quality cum laude.
    التعديل الأخير تم بواسطة إيمان ملال; الساعة 20-05-2010, 15:27.
    استطاعت الإنسانية أن تحقق العظمة والجمال والحقيقة والمعرفة والفضيلة والحب الأزلي، فقط على الورق.

    جورج برنارد شو


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