Eternal Happiness

Everyone on Earth has a common goal in life: to be happy. The time period in which they hope to have happiness and the ways that people attempt to achieve happiness vary greatly for each person. Some people hope to achieve happiness in this life; others hope to achieve eternal happiness in the afterlife. There seems to be no point in neglecting one and supporting the other. Either way the individual is subject to misery for at least a lifetime. Everyone should find as much long-term happiness in this life, contentment at death, and, in the event that the afterlife actually exists, aim to have peace after death. This happiness can be discovered through attempting to answer controversial questions about life, death, and origins through observing the world surrounding, and including, mankind.

To begin this process of seeking lasting contentment, the questions that have lead to many controversial debates for centuries must have some believable conclusion to the individual. For instance, one of those controversial subjects is the origin of the universe. One of the main theories held today is the Big Bang Theory. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two radio astronomers who researched radio signals in the spaces between galaxies in Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, possibly found evidence of the Big Bang in 1965. These astronomers detected background “noise” in their satellite transmission system called “Echo” at the microwave frequency from every direction, in which they concluded to be a cosmic frequency resulting from the big bang that created the universe. These men won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for this “discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation.”

On the other end of the debate, people argue that there was a...

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...God exists. Since God exists and there is proof of the Big Bang being discovered in recent years, it stands to reason that the Theory of the Big Bang and God’s work in developing the universe coincide. Dr. Gerald Schroeder is touching on connecting these two theories in his works such as, The Science of God, in which he relates the origins of the universe (about fifteen million years old) with the first story in Genesis of the Hebrew Bible.

Discovering this link, along with following the moral, social and individual guidelines can better free up the mind to reflect on other issues of the world. This will help them create a sense of purpose for themselves. This sense of purpose, and the consequent sense of achievement, can offer the individual a long-term happiness and contentment in both this life and the afterlife, reaching the goals of a reasonable human being.