(May 30, 2014 at 9:32 am)FreeTony Wrote:(May 29, 2014 at 9:05 pm)k2490 Wrote: "God doesn't make bad things happen,that's the Devil,but God allows it to make you grow and test your faith."
Unless it kills you.
Ah, but then it teaches you a lesson you'll never remember.
What's ruffling my feathers with all this talk of purpose and life lessons is the implication that other people only exist so that I can be tested; they're merely one-dimensional extras in the soap opera of my life in which I am the main and only character.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
