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As a naive, young Jewish boy, I believed that all Jews and righteous men would live forever in some sort of “new Israel” following the death of their mortal body. As I found that the mind, soul and body are one entity, I became aware of my mortality, though maintained some hope in my beliefs in the supernatural and a personal God. Now that I see that none my former beliefs can be true, I do not know what to live for or why I should live.
I understand that homosapeins are just as any other species as we are mortal and our existence is futile by nature. This bleak reality is rather depressing so I seek your opinion on my questions.
I understand that various ancient religions accepted the mortality of man; what did they believe was the purpose in human life? What are the beliefs of modern philosophers regarding that which men should live for?

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Experience.

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The school founded by this antique philosopher, became a prototype of modern higher education. Contemporaries named him «the divine teacher»: in his works it was spoken about an ideal society structure and immortality of soul. Ancient Greek thinker Plato said, that «time is a moving similarity of eternity».
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