Sand Dancer
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This has been weighing on me heavily, and I don't want to become depressed thinking about this issue, but it does concern me. How can I reconcile this? How do you?
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This has been weighing on me heavily, and I don't want to become depressed thinking about this issue, but it does concern me. How can I reconcile this? How do you?
Life happens. It's a constant competition to survive. Mans creativity and intelligence has always been trying to stay one step ahead of Nature, but nature isn't guided and so no matter how much we fight against it. Things will happen that are out of our control.
What religion do you adhere to, if any?
I'm Christian though I edge more on the skeptic side. With a good ounce of deism and Unitarian perspective.
So pretty much
I'm complex.
Interesting. Worth discussing sometime I think.
This has been weighing on me heavily, and I don't want to become depressed thinking about this issue, but it does concern me. How can I reconcile this? How do you?
Reconcile it with what?How can I reconcile this?
Reconcile it with what?
This has been weighing on me heavily, and I don't want to become depressed thinking about this issue, but it does concern me. How can I reconcile this? How do you?
Why would this depress you? Think about it logically, there is no reason for you to be depressed over such natural things. Deadly storms, accidents, diseases, they are all just the outcome of us living in reality. Not some fantasy world, not some magical perfect garden, just an uncaring and unaware universe.
Try to imagine a world in which human beings can jump from cloud to cloud, build castles on cloud islands, ride unicorns, and eat glowing life prolonging fruits, as they spend their day dancing and singing in unity to praise all creation.With a belief in a loving God.
Perhaps there is no God.With a belief in a loving God.Reconcile it with what?How can I reconcile this?
Try to imagine a world in which human beings can jump from cloud to cloud, build castles on cloud islands, ride unicorns, and eat glowing life prolonging fruits, as they spend their day dancing and singing in unity to praise all creation.
Right. It does not make sense. I think people have unrealistic and fantastic expectations about God and the universe. In other words people want God to be what they want God to be. They want a safe life, prosperous life, without physical or mental challenges, where everything is easy and there are no threats.
If God exists, there is nothing in the literature of world religions which indicates that this is the nature of God. Life is suffering. Any religion which tries to tell a different story about an alternate realm sells you something. I don't believe God is 'almighty', 'all-good'. If anything nature reflects God. As for love, love becomes more powerful when it needs to prove itself, and to fight for loved ones. What kind of love gets to exist unchallenged and in ideal conditions?
It's better to appreciate nature for what it is, instead of feeling depressed because its not what we want it to be.
With a belief in a loving God.
Perhaps there is no God.Perhaps it is not 'loving.'We often take walks at the Chicago Botanic Garden. It is a beautiful venue thanks to the persistent love and care provided by its horticulturalists and ground-keepers -- and yet there is turmoil, death, and decay in every square inch of land.Perhaps it is limited.
Well, it's simple. Perhaps the fact that nature is full of contradictions. Joy and pain, compassion and cruelty, forces of nature, volcanic activity, thunderstorms, etc. means that it is unrealistic to expect a divine being/reality behind nature to be fashioned after our own ideals of goodness, beauty, or safety.Can you expand on the "nature reflects God" comment? I am starting to be interested in this part of it.
Well, it's simple. Perhaps the fact that nature is full of contradictions. Joy and pain, compassion and cruelty, forces of nature, volcanic activity, thunderstorms, etc. means that it is unrealistic to expect a divine being/reality behind nature to be fashioned after our own ideals of goodness, beauty, or safety.
Personally I'm not a big believer in God, but judging by nature, by the daily struggle for survival of countless of species, by the scorching heat of the desert, black holes, supernovas, I would think that a God behind such phenomena is much less preoccupied with our wishes and needs for comfort and ever-happy life.
Like.. a mother who warned her son to return back home soon from the fair festival in the town because misadventure and accidents use to happen there.Why are there deadly storms, accidents and diseases?