Life as a value. Time is a precious gift Life as a value and a precious gift philosophy

18.01.2014, 18:11 [#125754]

Question: If there is a constant depreciation of human life, where will we get to?

Answer: The value of human life lies not in the number of people on Earth, but in our attitude towards each person. Unfortunately, we do not feel any damage from the departure of a person from life. We even value our own life much less than we should, because we do not see the point in it.

Life used to be respected. Death was respected. People were crying. After all, all this is estimated only by a person.

Now, when we have the opportunity to give everyone a long, relatively healthy and prosperous life, to educate them well, to put them on their feet, to make them a full-fledged person who knows life, we have lost the desire to live. If we spoke frankly with many people on Earth, they would say: "We live involuntarily. Of course, it's scary to think about going to bed and not waking up. But if we were offered such a painless end, we would agree to it" .

Many people in the world think about the worthlessness of their existence, they do not want to experience and feel what they now feel as life. It speaks of overestimation.

Today, people suffering from and taking antidepressants are switched to soft drugs, which are gradually being legalized, so that a person can keep himself in a good state of mind. Being "high", he will not fall into the hands of society, he will not have to be looked after and somehow civilly killed. And with drugs you kill him very beautifully.

For the elite, this is the best, cheapest, easiest way out. They have already defeated the industrial giants of tobacco and cigarettes, and the decision to legalize drugs has already been taken to the next level.

Replica: But this is not a fix.

Answer: The authorities do not have any tools and means to correct a person, and in the name of what?! They do not have this goal, they do not have a vision of the picture of the future. They will come to the need for correction only when, in spite of everything, they have no other choice.

Another way out for them may be a war that will cleanse the Earth, leaving one billion inhabitants and a normal ecology on it. For them, of course, this would be ideal, and they would undoubtedly go for it, because the most important thing for them is to rule in a normal, well-ordered world. And there is no point in sitting at the top and managing this madness.

But the problem is that in today's world, with an expanding global one, nothing can be predicted, and every day it turns out that they have less and less power left.

They cannot realize what actually controls us, which is absolute bestowal and love, and manifests its opposite in order to attract us to itself, push us away from our current egoistic nature. They do not have this, therefore they do not understand the causes of the present.

The powerful of this world consider the current crisis a crisis of overproduction, and do not understand that it is caused by the descent of the Higher Power onto our world, its approach to us. And she is absolute goodness and love, and therefore manifests itself in our egoistic desires as a force opposite to us. Ultimately, this should cause them to realize the need to change. But they can receive this awareness from the Higher Power only through us, and they do not hear us yet.

The higher force, gradually descending into our world, makes us see that there is one control, one goal, one path, one purposeful movement in nature. But in many people the question still does not arise: "Where is this purposefulness? Where does it lead? How?" However, today it is already grasped that this is one force, one idea, this is given from above - all this is understandable, but the process itself and the awareness of its goal are not yet clear.

I think this is a matter for the near future. We must try very hard to explain everything to the masses as soon as possible. This is more important than showing that we can fix something. So that's what we're mainly doing right now. The main thing - !

From the TV program "Secrets of the Eternal Book", 19.08.2013

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01/20/2014 at 18:40

[12:56:36] Makhmut Sabitov (Kazan).
Why is life given to us? For what purpose did we come into this world? What is the meaning of our life?
In recent years, these questions have been worrying us more and more, because our earthly life is finite, and we, naturally, want to make the most of the years allotted to us.
From childhood, a person is instilled with various values ​​in life, to which he involuntarily aspires, someone wants to become rich, someone famous, and someone just lives for today, without particularly going into the meaning of his existence.
After all, nowhere do we find direct instructions according to which we must plan our lives in order to achieve a goal in life determined for each person. If this were the case, then everyone could foresee everything in advance and use their life to the maximum advantage for themselves.
At the inanimate, vegetative and animal levels, everything is predetermined, they fulfill the program laid down by nature, they do not have free will. This freedom of choice is given only to a person, and he personally must decide how to use his life correctly.
This most important burning question, which worries every person to one degree or another, has an answer in the science of Kabbalah. It is no coincidence that in our time, Kabbalah is becoming the science of life, an instruction by which we can properly plan our lives and achieve the goal of creation.
Vladimir Alentiev (Salavat).
Now it is important for us to learn how to properly distribute MIVO, i.e. to learn and unite.
Ruslan Khamitov (Ufa).
For me, the most difficult thing is still to learn to see and feel the way through which I can lead a person (especially the audience) from his current state to the feeling of the need to build integral relationships with his environment.
Vadim Portnov (Kazan).
Young people now have no meaning in life, I even think they suffer more than the adult generation, so our role is to give this meaning to them and everyone else through the method of unification.

06/01/2018 | website

Teach us to count our days so that we may gain a wise heart (Ps. 89:12).

Our time belongs to God. Every moment of our lives belongs to Him, and it is our most solemn responsibility to use this gift to glorify His name. We will not have to give Him such a strict account of any talent given to us by God, as of the use of the time granted to us.

Time is priceless. Christ considered every moment of life to be precious, and so should we treat time. Life is too short to be wasted on trifles. We have very little testing time to prepare for eternity. We have no time to waste or devote it to selfish pleasures, no time to indulge in sin. It is now that we are shaping our character for the future. eternal life. Only now can we prepare for the future consideration of our cases.

The human family, having barely begun to live, immediately began to die ... A person who understands well the value of time as assigned to him for labor will prepare himself for the heavenly abode, for immortal life. Such a person will justify his birth.

The time given to us must be put to good use. But time wasted cannot be recovered. We can't bring back a single moment of our lives. The only way we can do anything to make up for the loss is to make the best use of the time we have left by becoming co-workers with God in the accomplishment of His great plan of redemption....

Every moment we live resonates with some kind of consequences in eternity. We must be constantly ready to respond to the call to service. Who knows if we will again be given the opportunity to speak the word of life to the needy soul, the opportunity that we have now, at this moment. God can at any time say to a person whom we have not had time to help: “This very night your soul will be taken from you” (Luke 12:20), and he will be unprepared due to the fact that we have neglected our duty. What account shall we give on the great day of judgment? ( Object Lessons of Christ, With. 342, 343).

2. Life as a value

Life or existence is the core, basic value of a person. She is general condition or the premise of all its states and actions. But it is important to emphasize that it is not the value of life that is prioritized, but the value of a person, since it is the personality that exists, the personality lives, the personality exists, while life, no matter how valuable and significant in itself it may seem to us, is nothing more than the most immediate place, the center of the emergence of personality, the way of its being in the world.

Modern anthropology, psychology and philosophy have shown that the birth of a person is a complex, multi-stage process. In the beginning we are given our immediate existence, life. Personality is born on its basis, but not simultaneously with our biological birth, but later.

If personality is essence and life is existence, then our existence precedes our essence. To say that an entity exists is to say that a person lives. But it is the essence, the personal principle that is the semantic and value center of a person.

For a correct understanding of man, it is necessary to overcome the danger of the so-called genetic reductionism, i.e. reduction of the essence of the subsequent to the essence of the antecedent, generating this subsequent. Information only on the basis that one preceded the other. It is wrong, say, to consider man "essentially" an ape just because man descended from an ape. It is also wrong to reduce the essence of a person to his existence, and the personality to its life.

Life is a way of being of a person as the owner, owner of life, its owner and ruler. If the reverse situation takes place, then the person turns into a slave of his life, and life in joy turns into life in burden. Man is the goal. His life is a means to that end.

The value of life as such is twofold. On the one hand, life is given to us as the highest gift, a universal opportunity, and therefore we must highly value life, feel reverence and respect for it. On the other hand, life is given to those who are not just life, but a person - a creature living its own life, a free, thinking, creative being, knowing life, its beginning and end, its limitless possibilities and its biological boundaries, a being aware of the finiteness of life. And therefore, the one to whom it is presented, given (literally for nothing!) In order to be lived by him - more priority, more important than life, is its subject. Good or bad is another matter. There are lives of genius, and there are lives of mediocrity.

Perhaps there is even a law of life: we are either higher than life, if we live it worthily, or lower, i.e. we find ourselves unworthy of this gift if we live somehow, going with the flow. But in any case, a person and his life are not the same thing. The birth of a personality is an act of life going beyond its biological limits. This means that reason and freedom are born in her womb, giving rise to a whole firework of unique cultural phenomena that cannot be reduced to life as a biological process.

Life is either there or it isn't. But its quality may vary. If we live, support our life, love and take care of it in the name of good and not at the expense of the lives and values ​​of other people, then we are human, and our life is good and wealth. If inhuman principles take over in us, then our life begins to degrade, weaken, become poorer and weaker. Its value decreases to the extent that it burns through, kills the inhuman in us. The more humane, richer our life, the higher its value. Life is valuable to the extent that I am the human master of my life.

“Just to live”, to live a passive, vegetative life, surrendering to the flow of everyday life and the moment, means to thoughtlessly waste your start-up capital, that initial reserve of life that we all already have by the time the first acts of consciousness and self-consciousness appear, by the time the personality and humanity awaken in us. There is a saying: one person lives to eat, the other eats to live. A humane person can say that he eats and lives in order to become and be a human person, in order to create himself and the values ​​of personal, social and universal life, in order to improve and elevate the dignity of man.

Life is a value because it is the initial base, a way, a process in the course of which we can only manifest, call to active being, realize our humanity, all our positive traits and virtues, all our values.

From this alone, human life becomes infinitely valuable, becomes a universal value. The boundless value of life is already manifested in the fact that it invites everyone and everything to its feast, to the feast of life, for everyone and every human being it finds a place at its holiday. As our priceless gift and a real chance, without any preconditions, she tells each of us - live!

Perhaps what has just been said sounded too declarative. There are illnesses that make existence itself a trial, early deaths, and so on. And yet, in the infinite value of life, as long as we can live, all its black spots seem to sink. In addition, a real tragedy can break out between a person and his life. Life for him can become unbearable. And then he can realize his right to life: to stop it. In particular, the right to a decent life and a decent death is discussed in connection with the issue of euthanasia.

Everyone mentally healthy man cherishes life, regardless of whether it looks successful by accepted standards or not - this is another confirmation of the realism of the humanistic understanding of man. However, life itself, regardless of its assessment, which is always secondary, requires a humane attitude towards itself. To be realized as a value, it must be, must be preserved as such, it must be maintained, strengthened and enriched. But some internal reserves of life, the instincts of its self-preservation are not enough. And that's why.

Life is the universal, all-embracing basis of human existence. This means that it is open to both the human and the inhuman in us. That is why it can be both joy, and grief, and wings, and a yoke around the neck, and luxury, good luck, and poverty, failure and a curse. Millions and tens of millions of drug addicts and alcoholics, street and homeless children, orphans, hundreds of millions of poor people doomed to different countries to vegetation, hunger and suffering due to the fault of totalitarian and ignorant ruling forces and due to archaic traditions of captivity and humility - all of them were unable or were deprived of the opportunity to realize their life potential.

But in any case, life itself cannot but be a value. It becomes a burden or even unbearable not because of its own essence, but only insofar as it is permeated, clothed with the negative of the inhumane in a person or that existing outside of a human being that oppresses him, undermines, deprives him of strength.

If by human life we ​​understand not only its biological side, but also its psychic and intellectual side (and only such integrity can be called human life), then it is easy to imagine how wide the range of the intrusion of the anti-human into us, into our own life.

When for some reason a reliable barrier is not established on the path of this invasion, when the inhumane is not opposed by the humane, then the process of life begins to acquire a negative meaning, becomes inhuman and destructive for the person himself, and for society, and for the environment.

Only the biological principles of life and primitive survival instincts can still support the life of a misanthrope, a murderer or a rapist.

Life becomes all the more twilight, flawed and weakened, the more it is struck by inhumanity, cynicism and nihilism.

The worst thing that can happen to a person is the victory of the inhuman in him. His final victory means spiritual degradation and death, stimulating, one way or another, physical degradation and death. No villain is truly happy, and the life expectancy of hardened criminals is far below the average life expectancy.

Life has not only internal enemies in the person of the person himself, but also external enemies, existing outside the personality and society. Especially obvious are the dangers that threaten life as a biological process: diseases, natural disasters, unhealthy habitats. Although in many ways these enemies can be socially determined, and either stimulated by social factors, or weakened, and some defeated by social measures, the very nature of these threats is associated with physical, general biological or environmental laws. In this context, the question arises about the component of our life that is connected with our flesh, corporality and its value.

The value of our body is not only biological, physical and aesthetic. It is actually vital, existential, because it is fundamentally connected with our existence as life.

Our body is the only possible way our physical and biological existence.

No matter how exciting the prospects for creating an artificial brain or an artificial person, the bodily, biological will always be inseparable from us as individuals, from our inner peace, our self.