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God is cruel
- Thread starter Spiderman
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The last I checked according to the Christian story you have a dying suffering God. That's a rather remarkable bit of insight iin that story. Lots and lots of suffering. Mary suffers because of an infant, joseph suffers because of Mary and the infant. The infant suffers because of the community. The community suffers because of itself. Lots and lots of suffering and we don't stop, one truth about suffering, it makes love and joy.....magical.
psychoslice
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Yes i did, but thankfully the police came and took me away, to a place where I could eat a good pudding lol.
psychoslice
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So why do you let yourself suffer /.
psychoslice
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Yes we need to understand that so called suffering is part of life.
Free will is one thing, but I've never been able to reconcile that concept with severe birth deformities (for example)
psychoslice
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Its all life, deformities and everything else, it all goes together, its we who put a label to it, not liking this or that, and so we suffer.
I meant that the argument of free will as it relates to suffering fails to account for random acts of suffering not related to an act of free will.
It's all the same for me, I don't expect life to be working to a plan.
psychoslice
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Yes and life will never work to our plan, to expect that is to suffer, to expect anything is to suffer.
psychoslice
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Well that could be your downfall ?>What can I say? I'm not a Hindu.
Yep, maybe. It wouldn't be the only major religion that finds me lacking. I suspect I'll somehow manage to muddle on.
psychoslice
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Yes and I hope one day you will find the truth.
Yuck. I hope not. That would run quite contrary to a worldview that seems to have served me pretty well until now.
If I ever had 'the truth' I might lose my humble charm.
psychoslice
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Yes but we can even make a prison beautiful if we want to.
And if our large and physical-contact deprived cellmate agrees.
Aštra’el
Aštara, Blade of Aštoreth
Why do people's standards and expectations of God involve rainbows, unicorns and butterflies? Why do people feel like God should have made our experience of Life a G-rated movie? Why do they expect God to bless them with hugs and smiles and happiness, everywhere they go? Why do they expect God to fly down on a cloud dressed in tie-dye robes, and sprinkle them with happy glitter to erase all their pain and misery, and make everything in their lives enjoyable and peaceful?
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psychoslice
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Simple, they believe in a dream that they hope will save them, ha, as if lol.
Kelly of the Phoenix
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