RE: My dying best friend
March 9, 2014 at 6:21 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2014 at 6:35 pm by FreeTony.)
What is a problem is if someone lives their life in the belief in an afterlife, when perhaps they would have acted differently and enjoyed the life they do have more if they didn't have it. Perhaps in this case it is a good thing for him? I guess it's whatever makes his life more enjoyable.
I think the nearest analogy I can make to my own life is being fed up and having a horrible time at work, but thinking that it's ok because I have a great holiday booked the next week. I think that would make me happier, though probably not so much if I felt there was a chance that the holiday would involve demons torturing me.
Life is unfair and cruel. To quote David Attenborough:
"People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’ And I always say, well, when you say that, you’ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that’s got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate…"
I think the nearest analogy I can make to my own life is being fed up and having a horrible time at work, but thinking that it's ok because I have a great holiday booked the next week. I think that would make me happier, though probably not so much if I felt there was a chance that the holiday would involve demons torturing me.
Life is unfair and cruel. To quote David Attenborough:
"People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’ And I always say, well, when you say that, you’ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that’s got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate…"
