Starsoul
Truth
How can you be sure when,
1) you do not have those people display their miseries out in the world for the fear of THAT acknowledgment.
2) When the day of judgment is not here? How can you say that those people wont suffer? Maybe God ( as it is just) is giving them chance upon chance to repent their ways, and will punish them severely? How can you believe that( if they have the govt. the law and the police in their pockets) they will escape the wrath of God?
Again, The human designed system has to fail for man to know what his rigorous efforts are worth, which Man only uses to his own benefit. E.g If you discovered a gold mine, would you go around tell all people about it so that they can each partake in the treasure or would you take hold of it to claim its ownership? I think the latter is what has been happening in the world, and It can only stop when God looses all hope in humanity. That day will bring the day of Final judgment.
Ok lets say that he did not allow bad things to happen, would you know then how evil a man can be when entrusted to his ownself ? How would you ever know that MAN , despite the streak of evil in him, can TRY to overcome it and keep his head straight?
If this life is temporary, so is the effect of evil, why bother so much over evil of others when there's sufficient evil within self to deal with?
I dont know if you're speaking in context of christianty's concept, but Its a general desire of people that Nobody wants to suffer. Yet they all suffer.
Some can relate to the idea of suffering as the return of the suffering that they may have unknowingly caused to other people and now going through the same pushes them to be more humble ,incase they aren't too stubborn.
In Our faith though , when we encounter a suffering, we are encouraged to remind ourselves of our own mistakes that we may have done in the past (or recently)which may have caused someone else to suffer because of us, and almost always, there are more than one instances where one can remember being mean or selfish to someone else. And then it is encouraged to seek quick repentance from God, humbling oneself without delay, this humbling almost erasing the burden of suffering.
Its really hard to understand the concept of suffering in most of the other faiths that I have come across, and i see how people don't want to relate to it, i too wouldn't if i was of those faiths, Its very hard to own up to one's own mistakes i guess, and that is the ONLY self changing measure that man avoids at all costs, for the love of ego, or self.
Would you really recognize suffering as suffering though if you had never come across the pefect stories of happiness, happily ever after and the constant media indoctrination of a perfect life which heavily stresses upon happiness within this trianlge.
Money, looks, Popularity.
How can every person on this earth be rich, good looking and popular all at the same time?If not so, why relate happiness to these things?
