• Maeve@midwest.social
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    7 hours ago

    A parent can easily do their children’s homework. How does that benefit the kids? A passing mark doesn’t mean the kid understands and the lessons don’t get easier.

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      The “homework” you’re talking about is war, starvation, disease, rape, slavery, and death.

      A parent is supposed to help their children, not torture them to death for a “lesson”.

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        7 hours ago

        We did that. It’s our mess to clean up.

        Oh, but I never voted for that politician! Did we do anything besides vote and clicktivism?

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          Disease? Starvation? Disaster? Let us not pretend like God didn’t create human evil either. For what? For fun? “To teach us a lesson”?

          The all powerful, all knowing God never seems to do anything either in case you haven’t noticed.

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            Btw, Alan Watts addressed some of this in The Book (on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are). If you can be bothered.

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            So we’re given the means to solve these tests. When we learn to work together to solve them, rather than “punishing” each other, we get closer to solving them. Disasters happen, whether natural or man-made. We either work together or we don’t. Test time.

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              We aren’t given the means to solve every “test” - sometimes people just die in twisted agony because the test is impossible.

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                No it isn’t. We may have to repeat lessons for a few lifetimes though. And everyone dies. We’re not meant to live forever.

                I was like this for decades. Then I went hunting. When I made peace with myself, I made peace with God. that means it took looking in the mirror, and still does.

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                  We may have to repeat lessons for a few lifetimes though.

                  We’re talking specifically about the Abrahamic trio. There aren’t multiple lifetimes, there’s one lifetime of suffering and then Judgement. What you’re talking about doesn’t apply to this discussion.

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                    6 hours ago

                    This subject is religion, and if you choose to believe what churches and politicians, usually one and the same, are telling you based on partial truths, that’s your free will.