(November 12, 2018 at 4:53 pm)Khemikal Wrote: It might be helpful for you to lay out what -would- be a valid explanation for all the pain and suffering in the world? If the only category you can find here..that you would accept, are the articles of your faith..then you are not actually looking for any explanation of all the pain in suffering in the world, and no explanation of all the pain in suffering in the world would be valid to you unless it were a restatement of the articles of your faith.
Meanwhile, both pain and suffering are explicable, and by natural means. Whatever plans your meat fairy might have to use pain and suffering on us in it's soul making experiment is extraneous to that...and it's plan is only working (if it exists at all, and if it has a plan, and if it is working) because of our very natural ability to experience pain...and suffering. If we didn't possess this natural ability, then no amount of scheming on the part of meat fairy would produce the intended effect.
-and there's still the issue of that baby getting eaten by a vulture..having learned nothing...and the issue of the god who watches it happen and does nothing, because it has no concept of kindness, compassion, or generosity.
After -aaaaaaaaallll- of that...there's the issue of this "reward". Dafuq? If I was interested in eternity I wouldn't be interested in eternity in some other dimensions paradise. I'll just stay right here, in my home, with everyone I know and love. I'm unconcerned about "deserving" whatever this pain and suffering inflicting sociopathic fairy is doling out to all the folks who licks it's hole and call it their soulmate....lol? It can fuck right off, and remember to close the door..all the bought air is getting out!
I determined my explanation for pain and suffering by deciding on the only thing that would make this a fair and just universe. The fact that over a billion people in the world think so too was just an added bonus.
