Kacey that's awful and more so considering the age of those very young children. Why they weren't suspended or even expelled is something I can't understand. A lot of problems arise though if you report them, they then can single you out and really make life troublesome.

In Australia a child that was even caught with a knife at that age would be immediately put on detention and the parents called. If he/she had threatened someone in such a manner they'd be immediately expelled. Once expelled from a public school they can't return to one and would need to seek a private education, very expensive.

A good reason to have home schooling if there was ever one. You sound as though you're enjoying it and your marks are obviously showing it so good for you and all the very best for the future. At least at home, there's no chance of bullies.

Hi Billa101,

A good topic to discuss! Anyway each of us has different views concerning our purpose of existence but surely our Heavenly Parent, God has purpose why he created us. Let's see if this topic i presented is acceptable to us or not. I just share anyway ...

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIFE?

Each creation has its own purpose of existence. If a creation were to lose its purpose of existence, it would have to be discarded. Then if the purpose of existence is So vital, what is man's purpose of existence?...

We can see in Genesis I that whenever God made a new species of creation He said it was good to behold. Thus, we can say God created the world in order to feel happiness or joy.

How is joy produced? Joy is not created by the individual alone. Joy comes when we have an object, whether invisible or visible, in which we see our own nature reflected and feel the stimulation derived from the object. Therefore, God created man and the universe as His substantial objects so that he could feel His own original nature through His substantial objects...

Thus, since man was created as God's direct object and His child, God gave man dominion over the world. Gen. 1:28 states the essence of the purpose of God's creation of man, the three great blessings: " and God blessed them and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply; and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion'. . ."

God's first blessing is that of individual perfection. By performing proper Give and Take Action between his mind and body centering around God, uniting them into one, man forms an individual foundation of four positions and becomes the temple of God (I Cor. 3:16). When such perfected individuals become completely one with God in heart (John 14:20), they constantly think and live centering around God, thus achieving deity and becoming the fruit of God's vertical love.

When man achieves God's first blessing, they will naturally share all God's feeling as their own. It would be absolutely impossible for such men to commit a crime for they would indeed feel the grief they would cause God by doing so; rather, such men would only want to be perfect objects of God's joy.

God's second blessing for Adam and Eve was that after attaining individual perfection, they become eternal husband and wife, perfecting the heavenly family, multiplying children of goodness, thus completing the family foundation of four positions centering around God. For Adam and Eve to become eternal husband and wife under God's vertical love means that God's love is perfected in the horizontal plane. In addition, God's giving them the right and ability to multiply God's children means that God is permitting man to experience with his children the same joy that God experiences in His vertical love for us. If Adam and Eve had attained perfection, forming the first family and giving birth to children of goodness, they would have become the true father and mother of all mankind, centering around God, thus becoming the eternal true parents and ancestors of mankind. From this true family as a base, a true society, true nation and true world would have been realized. This is God's will. If Adam and Eve had created such a family and world, it would have been the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

The third blessing God gave to man signified man's qualification to have dominion over the whole creation. God made man as a microcosm of the structures, functions and essential qualities of all things which He had previously created.

Thus, the world of creation was to be the substantial object of man and man was to feel joy when he felt his own nature reflected through the created things which resemble him.

The world where the three blessings are realized is the ideal world in which God and man, as well as man and the creation, are in complete harmony. Such a world is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. As will be described later, man was meant in the beginning to live on earth a life of total oneness with God, the true being of life and goodness. After such a life on earth, upon his physical death he would then pass into the spiritual world where he would automatically be in the spiritual Kingdom of Heaven. There he would live eternally under the perfect dominion of God's love.

http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/dp6h/Dp6h-01.htm

There is no god. No-one out there is listening, and no-one cares about you.

No-one can judge or forgive your sins. Your respected political and religious leaders constantly commit disgusting, pathetic, ordinary crimes that cause untold suffering. They will not be punished in any way. There is no reason at all to act in a moral manner, nor to even perpetuate your existence.

You do not possess a soul. When you die your brain will cease functioning and you will not experience anything ever again. Your body will be put in the ground to rot and be eaten by worms.

You sound like a pleasant person! Don't you wish you had some meaning to your life rather than dying and "being eaten by worms"? There is a God who cares about you and everyone. There is something, there's never nothing...

"There is no god. No-one out there is listening, and no-one cares about you. "

That's what I used to think, too, until I met him. He exists, he always listens (and talks to me), and he always cares, even when I'm having a tantrum or being childish.

Ellen..I agree. That is one thing about God..God is always available to listen...even when you feel all of your friends and loved ones are not.

All things become obvious by equalization.

condescension = fear

faith = fear

fear = ignorance

Condescention and faith are both signs of ignorance.

Ignorance is pervasive and immobile.

Exactly.. but who exactly is the ignorant one here?

What do you mean by you've met God? Like you've actually physically met him or do you mean something else and I'm just confused?