RE: Explaining the fact that we exist
November 5, 2016 at 4:06 pm
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2016 at 4:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That would be a non-sequitur. What does suffering to earn money have to do with a god? It may be an assumption, but it's not a safe or particularly well thought out one. Are you going to try and see if there might be ways to experience the divine without suffering, or spend that time instead trying to find ways to insist that there can -be- no experience f the divine without suffering, in direct contradiction to the examples which do, demonstrably, exist?
Maybe it's just you, you just might be a masochist who enters ecstatic states only when you are made to suffer? That does work, don't get me wrong, it's also a route that people take. Some people hang themselves by hooks through the flesh to receive a vision. Ever thought of trying that? Obviously, it's not going the painless route, but you seem uninterested, so I'm offering alternatives which would be the sorts of things that might appeal to an insistent sufferer.
Maybe it's just you, you just might be a masochist who enters ecstatic states only when you are made to suffer? That does work, don't get me wrong, it's also a route that people take. Some people hang themselves by hooks through the flesh to receive a vision. Ever thought of trying that? Obviously, it's not going the painless route, but you seem uninterested, so I'm offering alternatives which would be the sorts of things that might appeal to an insistent sufferer.
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