@ Pip: There are a lot of ways life could be better hypothetically speaking. If God was capable AND gived a crap (and also, IF he existed, lol) then he would certainly make a lot of it less fucked up.
Yes there is a lot of suffering that is worth it for growth, etc. But there is a lot of really horrible shit that goes on and is not worth it . And furthermore people who suffer and die before they've even had a chance, and still births etc. There's loads of really nasty shit that could be an awful lot better. Where it's no ones fault and no one's to blame, for example and - horrible shit 'just happened.'
About God not being able to because this is the way 'the machine works': - well, since I don't know of any evidence for "God" in the first place. I certainly know of no evidence for that either.
Why do you believe that if there is a God he would necessarily simply be incapable of making life better? How do you know he isn't simply stupid, careless or twisted?
Yes life is beautiful. Yes it can be. But life is also fucking horrifying. And yes it can be that way too (whether it has been experienced that way by us personally or not, and to what degree of 'horrifyingness' that is, etc.).
I don't see how you can give this "God" of yours (the one you believe in) credit for all the beauty and then separate him/her/it from all the horrible nasty stuff.
You have talked of free will - but if God can at least partly be given credit for the beauty - rather than humans for their 'free will'..then how come God cannot also be blamed for all the horror, rather than humans for their 'free will'?
How can you give God credit for the good but not the bad? If the 'Evil' is because of free will and 'not God's fault.' Then how come the same cannot be said for all the 'Good' too? How come God gets at least part credit for that? How can you say that comes for him and that's because of God, but not the 'Evil?'
EvF
Yes there is a lot of suffering that is worth it for growth, etc. But there is a lot of really horrible shit that goes on and is not worth it . And furthermore people who suffer and die before they've even had a chance, and still births etc. There's loads of really nasty shit that could be an awful lot better. Where it's no ones fault and no one's to blame, for example and - horrible shit 'just happened.'
About God not being able to because this is the way 'the machine works': - well, since I don't know of any evidence for "God" in the first place. I certainly know of no evidence for that either.
Why do you believe that if there is a God he would necessarily simply be incapable of making life better? How do you know he isn't simply stupid, careless or twisted?
Yes life is beautiful. Yes it can be. But life is also fucking horrifying. And yes it can be that way too (whether it has been experienced that way by us personally or not, and to what degree of 'horrifyingness' that is, etc.).
I don't see how you can give this "God" of yours (the one you believe in) credit for all the beauty and then separate him/her/it from all the horrible nasty stuff.
You have talked of free will - but if God can at least partly be given credit for the beauty - rather than humans for their 'free will'..then how come God cannot also be blamed for all the horror, rather than humans for their 'free will'?
How can you give God credit for the good but not the bad? If the 'Evil' is because of free will and 'not God's fault.' Then how come the same cannot be said for all the 'Good' too? How come God gets at least part credit for that? How can you say that comes for him and that's because of God, but not the 'Evil?'
EvF
