The Mystery of Life What’s it all about?
Discovering the Truth in a Skeptical World
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In the modern technologically advanced digital world of the twenty-first century, many people are finding themselves so preoccupied with excessively busy schedules and time-consuming daily affairs that they often tend to overlook or disregard the most important questions that should be seriously considered by everyone today. Humans are naturally drawn to the question of life’s meaning, although humanity’s deep-seated longing for truth and purpose is easily suppressed by the hectic pace of today’s modern lifestyles. We busy ourselves with many time-consuming details of living in a technologically advanced age, which may reflect an inward desire to avoid or perhaps postpone the vital question of our own mortality. I believe many people are allowing the years to slip away without ever giving serious consideration to life’s most pressing questions. They wrestle with over stimulated lives and hurried schedules that force the search for meaning and the divine to the back of their minds where it’s typically chalked up as a matter for future consideration. What is this life all about? What on earth am I here for? What is my purpose for living? Why do we live in such a broken world?
Are these questions too difficult to examine, or can we possibly lay hold of answers that will satisfy our deepest longing for truth? Perhaps many of us are simply going through the motions of everyday living without ever attempting to perceive the actual purpose and true significance found within the triumphs and struggles in which we all engage. Until people are able to recognize the rationale that was intended for their lives, many will continue to struggle in the face of mounting frustration, confusion and growing disappointment while pressing onward in a fallen world that is reeling from the trials inherently caused by death and decay. There remains today a desperate need in modern cultures the world over for individuals to take pause to consider, openly and honestly, questions that pertain directly to the most critical issues of life with the overall objective of discovering life’s true meaning. If you are willing to seriously consider these all-important questions, and do so with an open mind, then you are about to discover the very answers that could decisively reveal your purpose, alter your view of life, and forever shape your future. For you and me to experience the real meaning and genuine purpose for our mortal lives, it would certainly be helpful to discover the truth about several very basic questions. Before we consider these all-important questions, however, we should briefly examine the condition in which we find our world today.
Isn’t it interesting that we, who are living in America, often considered to be the most progressive, affluent, and advanced culture in the world, are still desperately searching for that elusive thing called happiness. Even though we have seen tremendous progress as a nation, which has greatly impacted the quality and comfort of daily living the world over, we are still forced to admit that our world today is more corrupt and unsafe, and in a greater state of peril than most of us can remember. Recent tragic, history-altering events on America’s own shores have confirmed to the whole world that the stability and peace we all desire has still eluded us, even well into a new millennium, where recent advances in modern civilization were expected to make our lives healthier, safer, and finally at lasting peace with those around us. The extraordinary progress in modern science, technology, medicine, education, travel, and communication has greatly impacted all of our lives in so many ways, but this has not provided us a better and safer world in which to grow up in and raise our families. The genuine emptiness, despair, frustration, and anxiety all around us are clearly witnessed by the fact that the second-most dominant category of prescription drugs sold in America over the last thirty years were those used to address the treatment of anxiety, depression, insomnia, and various other mental health issues.
Why, in a nation of unprecedented blessing and prosperity, are so many people in such great despair? It appears that far too many Americans find themselves to be terribly unhappy and dissatisfied with their lives, even though so many have enjoyed all the material blessings that are necessary to make one’s life comfortable and content. Why does today’s divorce rate now far exceed one-half of all marriages in America? Why do we find ourselves still at war in a world with brutal dictators who impose their selfish will upon the helpless? Why is this insidious brand of terrorism such a threat to the national security of America and many other freedom-loving nations throughout the world? Why have we witnessed so much blatant corruption, shameful immorality, and abuse of power in government and business, even among our most trusted elected leaders? And why do we detect so much sexual perversion, uncontrolled violence, hate crimes, drug abuse, poverty, and debt? These and other harsh realities are only outward symptoms of the most basic problems still facing humanity today, even at the dawn of a new millennium in which human progress was expected to provide solutions to many issues that have so long eluded us.
Man’s problem is not in the mind to be analyzed, debated over, or negotiated! We surely do not need another nifty invention or an even bigger government. The problem we have is in the heart of man, and it needs to be healed! This dilemma we are facing stems from a basic lack of understanding of what this life is really all about and what is actually necessary to fulfill the most basic needs that we all have. How much longer can we possibly continue on the downward spiral of moral corruption we have experienced in Western culture over the last century? I now sense, more than ever, a desperate need in America, and throughout today’s modern world, for many individuals to take a short pause from the hectic pace of modern living. Overly driven by time-consuming technology, we must stop to seriously consider the most important issues that all of us will face before our days here on this earth are over.
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Have you ever seriously considered the most difficult and puzzling questions presented to our minds during this mortal sojourn through an often difficult and challenging existence? Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? And perhaps the most important question of all: What is my purpose for living? In this ultra-modern, digital world of today many people have become so preoccupied with the daily pursuits of life and the addictive overuse of time-consuming technology that many of them rarely pause to seriously consider what life is actually all about.
In writing The Mystery of Life it has been my hope and my goal to personally challenge each reader to consider many relevant facts and to follow a line of evidence pointing toward a worldview that is often overlooked and too easily marginalized. We live in an aggressive, technology-driven world where the wild pursuit of power, prestige, possession, and pleasure has become the driving influence ruling over many of our lives.
What does your worldview look like? Is there enough evidence to support it beyond reasonable doubt? If not, then I invite you to consider a vast body of mounting evidence that could lead toward a more accurate discernment of an often confusing existence. The view of life that we have each come to know will strongly influence everything we do, say, and become in this world. Based on a remarkable consensus of evidence, perhaps we should consider a worldview understanding that will ultimately avail our hearts and minds of the personal fulfillment and satisfaction we have always longed for and often dreamed of.
We owe it to ourselves to seriously consider where the evidence is leading us. Isn’t it about time to discover the answers to our most persistent and pressing questions. The Mystery of Life is presented as a literary expose’ addressing the questions of origin, meaning, morality and destiny.
About the Author
Born in 1950, David Peeples grew up in a small Western Washington logging town near the coast of the Pacific Northwest. As a young boy he would always prefer to be outdoors whenever possible as this afforded him the opportunity to satisfy his growing curiosity for the natural world first hand. After his graduation from high school, he attended Lower Columbia College in Longview, Washington where the focus of his academic study in the sciences would become the natural progression of a keen interest in a complex physical world and its many wonders. This led him to the discovery and understanding of many facts and details that have defined the disciplines of physics, chemistry, and biology. David went on to the University of Washington in Seattle where he studied and received an academic degree in pharmaceutical science in 1973. After combining his science background with a personal interest in history and theology, he turned to writing as a way to share the knowledge gained through many years of study, research, observation, and personal experience. As a long-term healthcare professional, he soon recognized that writing and teaching were the most effective ways to share the knowledge and understanding he had gained, which could ultimately benefit others as well. Many years of study, research, writing and editing would eventually lead to the completion of a book narrative that he had dreamed of sharing throughout much of his adult life. The Mystery of Life book project is not a casual stab in the dark at a few puzzling questions inherent in a complex physical world, but contains some thorough documentation of highly relevant and verifiable scientific and historical facts that have been, all too often, conveniently overlooked and even carelessly disregarded by a skeptical world.