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Do good things happen to good people
- Thread starter Leo613
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I think you should look around you.
Leo613
Active Member
Can u expand
I can try. I assume that natural processes that happen to me are common which means they happen to other people too.
If you look around you can see that good things happen to very bad people and that very bad things happen to good people. So it can't be God making things happen when a person does good or bad imho.
Leo613
Active Member
So is there any insensitive to be good
Do you really think an omnipotent, omniscient, allegedly omnibenevolent God doesn't have better things to do than punish human beings? How about good things happen because good things happen, and bad things happen because bad things happen. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. We are not special snowflakes.
Yes. There is a harvest. You would want to do your best for the harvest.
Leo613
Active Member
What do u mean harvest
Whatever a man is sowing he will also reap. I think this might also be applied to humankind.
Leo613
Active Member
Maybe a stupid question why are people bad
They are ignorant.
leibowde84
Veteran Member
I don't think this is possibly accurate. There is no protection of good people from bad things and vice versa. Bad and good things happen to both bad and good people, imho. I'm not sure whether blaming God is reasonable.
Leo613
Active Member
Does that mean people who are good are smart
Ignorant is not the opposite of intelligence. Some very intelligent people are ignorant and some very mentally handicapped people are smart.
leibowde84
Veteran Member
Ignorance is a lack of information, not stupidity.
Well, that works with everything. I could equally believe that when good things happen to me, that indicates the invisible fairy in my garden is happy with me. The contrary if bad things happen to me.
So, no matter what you plug-in, you will always explain why good or bad things happen to you. Ergo, this plugged in variable is mute and can be removed without changing anything.
Ciao
- viole
That is correct. Are you saying stupidity causes badness? I do not agree. I said ignorance causes badness. Stupidity or "bad choices" causes badness. Yes, but that is another thing. We are talking about something else.
Deathbydefault
Apistevist Asexual Atheist
Because they can be, and they're gambling that they might be able to get away with it. Very often, they do. Our society is very permissive, all too ready to forgive any kind of misdeed. Even for the religious, they can always say they're sorry on their death bed and be forgiven. So...why not be bad? Why would there be any incentive to be good?