Q - Why do bad things happen?
A - We live in a world of pain and suffering. There is no one who is not affected by the harsh realities of life, and the question “why do bad things happen to good people?” is one of the most difficult questions in all of theology. God is sovereign, so all that happens must have at least been allowed by Him, if not directly caused by Him. At the outset, we must acknowledge that human beings, who are not eternal, infinite, or omniscient, cannot expect to fully understand God’s purposes and ways.
The book of Job deals with the issue of why God allows bad things to happen to good people. Job was a righteous man (Job 1:1), yet he suffered in ways that are almost beyond belief. God allowed Satan to do everything he wanted to Job except kill him, and Satan did his worst. What was Job’s reaction? “Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him” (Job 13:15). “The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised” (Job 1:21). Job did not understand why God had allowed the things He did, but he knew God was good and therefore continued to trust in Him. Ultimately, that should be our reaction as well.
Counterpoint:
Why is that sadistic parable always the go to?
Job couldn't know, but it seems god is a sadistic fucking twat making bets with his archrival like L Ron Hubbard and Jack Parsons if they were freinemies
That aside, what the fuck?
You can't know god's plan? What a fucking cop out. You can't know the plan because
there is no plan and you're using a false belief in cosmic importance as a coping mechanism.
Once again the answers are in the stars.
What about the first thing you said and just stop there? Universe is hostile. Needs no explanation.
Further Muddling up why the world is fucked up is the rationalizing of self-serving behavior as original sin. I feel "shit is fucked" still works fine.
And though shit is fucked you want to thrive. You want to ascend in some way. Whether that is through social acquiescence and reward or will to power, all creatures seek security in some way.
You can bargain mammalian instincts away as a corruption of evil all you want, but you'd simultaneously have to apply this to every creature with domineering, territorial, or aggressive self-serving behavior.
The world is cruel because there is no inherent design. You have to choose a path that benefits you first and foremost. So does everyone else. Some have less respect than others. Some animals steal food and defy the pecking order, some circumvent it scavenging off the dead.
Is it evil? Or is it just a less cooperative approach exhibited by an animal within a species? A mutation to be a manipulative user of resources irrelevant to the benefits of the species? The solitary vs. pack animal.
You have to watch out for others. Fight others. Fight the many thinking whatever they want about why they have to fight. But at the end of the day you still gotta survive and compete with other people doing the same, whatever rung of existence you reside on..
We are all ultimately meaningless mites crawling on a ball of dirt that could easily be wiped out by electromagnetism. The omnipotent statistical chance to being hit by a GRB.
A disaster away from a whole new range of adversity and other animals to battle with, if still applicable.
For this blog series I am asking a Christian website to answer my questions... and then arguing it.
Q - What is the most important part of Christianity?
A -
Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. - Some Bible Verse
Counterpoint:
Love Is corrupted by faith within RHP attainment. You see the compulsory belief in something nebulous here. How can one use love in its abstract form? How do love a bullshit idea (god) using another bullshit idea? (soul)
For example: if you were emotionally trashed could you find comfort with the thought, "Something (or even someone I don't know yet) loves me with all their heart." Can that provide physical comfort? Change the outcome beyond changing the actions you choose to take?
Love is corrupted by ideology and delusions of destiny. It gets corrupted with commanded faith towards ideas as YOUR way to live.
Love is compationate possession of a person, place, or thing. A partner, family member, or even bad-ass possession. Most importantly, love is possession of your own life.
It is latent animal survival instincts manifesting to preserve oneself, which includes several kindred bonds and pride of ownership. Love is primarily territorial.
By giving love to a manifestation of an idea (like god) you strip it of its visceral human manifested existence and viable use in ultimate survival. "God's love", as seen in Christianity, actually makes the human species less prepared, because it relies on social delusion and herd behavior therein to make its detriment less noticeable.
It would fall apart outside the slave morality and protection of social code.
Golf is an individual sport. A sport is an activity that involves competition. Golf is played with clubs and a pitted ball.
First things first. The game has to appeal to you and you have to want to play. Next thing is you need golf clubs to play golf properly. Typically you want an assortment of irons and wedges, with a driver and sometimes fairway woods. A putter rounds out the set. You then put all that in a bag. This is called "a set of golf clubs". You need these to play golf right.
Then you gotta find a golf course to play golf on. Sometimes these have driving ranges, which is another place to play golf. You need to get in your car and drive to a golf course. You can sometime participste in golf with others.
You also need money to play. Golf is an expensive sport. If you have money you can play golf.
In golf the objective is to do the best you possibly can. To take it upon yourself to try to get better at playing golf. To take the clubs and pitted ball and play golf the best you possibly can and to devote time to this pursuit.
After you play golf enough you will better at playing it because you play it all the time.
Bottom line is Golf is a sport that requires practice to get better at. The individual can practice golf to get better at the game of golf by using the assorted clubs and pitted ball.
