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 Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 6:34 am
Why do you think suffering exists? Is it meant to teach us a lesson about something? Is is a form of prayer? Is it something we bring upon ourselves?
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 6:48 am
I don't think it's due to anything you listed.
I think it's just part of life and living. It's not because of anything you did or didn't do (unless you're directly causing the harm to yourself). It's not like it's a lesson to learn, it's just part of the experience. It's not required though, so not everyone suffers..
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:39 am
I think its part of the learning experience. we need something to compare bliss to or we would not understand bliss when we have it. Suffering gives us empathy and pity for others, we can more fully understand their experience if we have been through something similar ourselves. I think it also gives us something to reach beyond. If we choose not to suffer we look at what causes it and make choices to avoid it. When we need to make choices that cause suffering, we may more fully appreciate the ending results of those choices.
Now, why is there global suffering? That I cannot tell you, it is too harsh for my comprehension. We as one have not yet made the choices to end suffering on a large scale and I don't get it. Sometimes it seems that the more we try the worse it gets. The simple answer to me is that the people in power have yet to build up the empathy.
Wow, I can ramble
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:39 pm
Whops, I totally forgot about this thread. redface OK, so i look at it in kind of the way the Bhagavad Gita looks at it. The Gita says that suffering exists as a prayer to God. And because you have given up comfort and are suffering, you become that much closer to the Divine when you die. heavily paraphrased, but I think it has at least some truth in it. however, I also think it's one of those things in life that has no right or wrong. Therefore, one person's view on it is just as valid, no matter now different it might be.
Next question for thought: What happens when we die? Is there an afterlife? Are we reincarnated? Do we rot in the ground? Share your thoughts (and once again, no one is more right than anyone else smile ).
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:42 am
I want to believe in Summerland. I am not sure of an afterlife, I hope there is, but I won't know until I am gone. WHICH I am not in a hurry to find out.
I'm kind of strange with this idea, I have seen spirits and know they linger on Earth, I heard my father days after he passed, but I am a skeptic to myself. It's hard to say. I guess I need more solid proof.
I'd like to believe in reincarntion too.
I mean I am sure there is an afterlife, but I am also a skeptic. It's like there's a 50/50 battle in my mind, the skeptic and the believer.
I am one confused little witch.
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