If God is fair and just, and God loves everyone, why do some people have it so easy whereas other people have such difficult lives? I know the religious apologists have answers but I do not accept those answers. I want to know why even though I know I will never know why.
I know siblings, who were brought up in the same family, with the same two parents, in same external environment. One sibling is happy and the other is unhappy. Often it comes down to the choices that were made, along the way, due to free will. External trimmings do not guarantee uniform happiness if poor choices are made.
If you had a lot of money, you can control your environment and use that control of the environment, like a prosthesis to induce positive feelings. If you are feeling down, you can afford to take a trip to the Islands to boost you mood, with a cottage in the warm sand and sun.
The poor man does not have these prosthesis options. They need to find a way to find delight in the simple things that are available for free; birds and trees. If one was to choose the path of materialism, and you fall short of the money needed for the perpetual prosthesis to control happiness, you may not be able feel good about yourself. But if you chose to live a simple life and can learn to find the goodness and joy in simple things, you can control your heart and can feel happy anywhere; be as children.
Free will and choice, is first mentioned in Genesis. Which means the author was living at a time of fewer choices than modern times. Choice to them was not about which designer shoes to wear or which political party to join. Free will and choice in Genesis, was about choosing to break away from our natural instincts, in favor of knowledge of good and evil, as imposed by culture and civilization. One could stay a migratory herder and gatherer, with a natural life, or stop and live in civilization under law of good and evil; repress instincts.
If you believe in evolution and believe that humans evolved from the apes, it follows that at one time, humans, at their new branch on the evolutionary tree, were led by natural instinct, similar to an ape. The earliest prehuman; transitional between ape and man, did not have free choices, since they had the ability to make perfectly happy choices, via natural instinct.
The Bible says that knowledge of good and evil changed this. In other words, rather than flow with instinct; perfect instinctive choices, that had been advanced by natural selection, over eons, people now had more than one option for choices; good or evil. These two choices are not the same, and each will lead to a different place in the future. Many people are unhappy and are blaming someone else for the pitfalls of their earlier choices due to the mutually exclusive choices of good and evil. You cannot chose both so something is lost.
Knowledge of good and evil is often subjective, so even if you do what you are told is good; kill the witch since they are evil, and expect reward from your peers for being a good executioner, you may be disappointed. The unconscious guilt against what is objectively and instinctively right may spoil what you were told was a good choice. Instinct is not subjective, since instinct that is chosen by natural selection is optimized by objectivity; cause and affect results. Subjective knowledge of good and evil, often leads to bad endings, even if you think this is good due to social conditioning, group reinforcement, and peer pressure.
Modern humans have lost contact with natural human instinct, which would allow one to have the natural joy of an animal. Instead we choose from the good and evil choices that are imposed or manipulated by culture; both objective and subjective. We may follow the herd and even choose what is expected, but by not being a natural choice, these choices never result in permanent happiness. Some will blame God for our free will choices and/or our socially imposed choices, which often diverge from the temporary happiness we thought would be permanent.
Learning to find happiness in simplicity is the way of nature; tree of life. This is all animals have to work with. These will endure, recorded on our DNA. Knowledge of good and evil is temporal and has a shelf life.
DNA is very conservative. In human DNA, we still have traces from the earliest stages of evolution; mitochondrial DNA. These genes are shared by all animals and single cells. This suggests that natural human instinct should still be engrained on human DNA. However, it appears to be unconscious in most people; tree of life was taken away from ego consciousness. It was not erased since DNA is very conservative, only sealed for now, so humans would not engrain knowledge of good and evil onto the DNA and spoil it. Luckily, knowledge of good and evil is mostly subjective and is never selected for long term affects. Laws is always changing.
Most people can never find their inner natural man or women, who can make them happy. This is due to the super ego of culture and it's imposed fear, guilt and shame. God gave us free will to find the natural way or to choose the path of the tree of cultural knowledge. The latter only allows a few to have sufficient material prosthesis to approximate natural from the outside. The rest who choose this path blame God. It is better to trace your personal choices back in time, and see where our choices led us astray and then change those choices. It is not on your permanent DNA record; tree of life is sealed at this time.
If you look at people on the Left, they tend to be unhappy, cynical and angry all the time. This is not natural. It is caused by the knowledge of good and evil, imposed by their belief systems, funneling their choices within the context of their belief systems. These are not good choice even if they are subjectivley sold as good. We can tell by the output reactions.
The religious may seem less sophisticated and less on the ball, but many are happy with the choices made often based on simple things. They will fight to avoid others imposing the same subjective beliefs that make these people unhappy and unnatural.
