Is Oprah Winfrey Leaving Her TV Show Behind Too Soon?
What is the meaning of life? What happens when we die? Is there really a God? These are just a few of the questions Oprah Winfrey is planning to answer on the final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show…
Ha! OK, we’re just kidding. Oprah’s a pretty powerful lady—OK, a really powerful lady—but even she doesn’t know the answer to any of those questions. (At least, we don’t think she does!) But she’s already started to use the final season of her show to answer a lot of other questions people have had on their minds for years now.
Last week, she had Lisa Marie Presley on to discuss her relationship with Michael Jackson and the things she regrets about it, namely that she couldn’t help him more. She also sat down with director Tyler Perry recently to discuss the sexual and physical abuse he endured as a young child at the hands of his father. And for next month, she just announced she’s already booked Ricky Martin to speak about his decision to come out as a gay man and, most notably, former President George W. Bush to talk about his new memoir, Decision Points. Talk about juicy stories.
But all of these announcements surrounding Oprah’s final season got me to thinking: Why is Oprah leaving? I understand it’s her 25th season and she has a bunch of other business ventures out there she wants to pursue. I understand her contract with ABC is up and renegotiating another one is something that would take time, effort and (most likely) some sacrifice on Oprah’s part, considering she could probably open a lemonade stand somewhere right now, slap her name on it and turn it into a multimillion dollar operation.
But as I see all of these big-name celebrities appearing on her show to reveal their deepest, inner-most thoughts, I can’t help but wonder where these people are going to turn once she’s off the air for good. For years now, everyone from Will Smith and Barack Obama to Jay-Z and, yes, Tom Cruise have turned to Oprah in order to tell their stories and share their secrets with America. They’ve done it because they trust Oprah to be fair in her treatment of them and because they realize they can reach middle America and beyond when appearing on her show.
Not to get too dramatic, but once Oprah signs off, she takes that trust—and the audience—with her. No matter who ABC finds to replace her, it could take years, even decades, to find and establish someone who could interview a world leader, an athlete and an actor in the same week and get them all to reveal something they’ve never shared before. Throw in the fact that CNN’s Larry King is also signing off this year and we have to sit back and wonder where Chris Brown is going to appear to apologize to the world, where the next international superstar like Michael Jackson is going to sit down and tell his side of things and where celebrities are going to feel comfortable enough to dig deeper than what we see on the surface.
Say what you want about Oprah—she’s built her name into a brand that’s bigger than herself, she caters to celebrities for the purpose of getting them on her show, she’s sold herself out too often—but one thing remains true: She knows how to score big stories and she knows how to tell them in a way that addresses both the tabloid tales and the facts that actually matter.
Oprah just seems to be hitting her stride, too. George W. Bush? Ricky Martin? Lisa Marie Presley? These are big stories that haven’t really been told before. At least, not the way Oprah can tell them.
She may be leaving too soon. For her, 25 years may be long enough. But as gossip blogs and rumor mills continue to become a main source of information, now seems to be the time celebrities need Oprah more than ever.
And once she’s gone, to whom are they going to turn?
Is it actually possible to answer those big questions – the meaning of life, is there a God, etc?
Yes it is – so Oprah is lucky that she’s waited this long!
Science now shows there is indeed an actual purpose to all life as well as meaning of individual life – something that reconciles modern science with ancient scriptures and spiritual writings!
It suggests we consider how everything in the universe is ultimately comprised of energy, as shown by Einstein’s famous equation E = MC2. Everything that you see and experience is energy – even the solid things around you are fundamentally comprised of energy and will one day return to it. It is energy that gives you life, is the basis of your perceptions, thoughts, memories and even character – and maybe even soul.
One of the most important principles of energy is that it doesn’t like differences and works out ways to reduce and balance them. This is why energy flows from where it is concentrated (like the sun) out into the colder universe. This flow sometimes sees energy join with other bits of energy in a process that ultimately formed chemicals and then molecules. Some of these molecules thrived, even replicated, as they helped energy flow better. Over time, some of those developed into living organisms and life as we know it.
The chemistry was important, but it was the energy flow underlying those reactions that was key, and saw human life ultimately derive, say scientists such as Eric Schneider, Dorion Sagan (Carl Sagan’s son), Arto Annila among others.
It might not seem a noble purpose to help energy flow and balance, but science shows that it is the ultimate purpose of all life.
The same laws of energy indicate that a meaning of your own life is to find how your energy flows best.
A large part of you is energy. While the 25 chemicals that comprise you are the same as those in everyone else, the way energy is mixed with them is different in each of us. We all have bodies with similar brains with a similar number of nerves in each, but the way those nerves are connected is different in each of us. The experiences, learnings and resulting nerve connections are unique and are what makes you whom you are – makes your character and personality. Science can’t precisely tell you how your character and personality works, but you know you have one that stares at you from the mirror each day, you know it exists.
What does your energy enable you to do best? This can be as simple as determining what you are truly passionate about or what you do better than anyone else.
How you use energy best varies for everyone – therefore, everyone has a slightly different meaning to someone else. Ignoring this means your energy will be all mixed up and your life will be chaotic. Is this science echoing those scriptures that suggest you have your own unique ‘gift’ that you should use?
This is what most scriptures and spiritual writings are trying to tell us, but just didn’t understand energy well enough. If you look at ancient scriptures and spiritual writings in terms of energy you start to realise that they, and modern science, are all saying something similar.
Whatever you believe, whether you agree with the science or not energy is integral to life. Yet few of us ever consider this and the difference that in doing so can make to your life – and how it can explain the meaning of your life.
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Really weird… I don’t think anyone could ever replace her though.
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