anotherlife
Gold Member
The common denominator between all religions is not even creation, but the question of why there is suffering.
Intuitively, a perfect existence would have everything in its place with no need to do anything therefore there would be no suffering.
But there is movement and there is a devil or whatever you want to use to characterize suffering. In fact, everything starting from its very conception begins to suffer to various degrees as time goes on.
So let's ask the question. Is suffering an indicator that God is imperfect? Is it an indicator of an alternative creator of the physical world that is not God?
And what do we do about suffering? Like the Buddhist we live minimalist? Or like the Catharies we sit it out to starve ourselves?
The degree of suffering is variable to everything conceived and it is built into its conception, like a demonic possession.
So here is the basic universal question. What do we do about it.
Laws don't help because they just result in bureaucratic random effect on suffering.
Churches of various religions may be better but they don't get very far either because of doctrinal self trapping.
So let's have a free association of thoughts, what can be done about suffering?
Intuitively, a perfect existence would have everything in its place with no need to do anything therefore there would be no suffering.
But there is movement and there is a devil or whatever you want to use to characterize suffering. In fact, everything starting from its very conception begins to suffer to various degrees as time goes on.
So let's ask the question. Is suffering an indicator that God is imperfect? Is it an indicator of an alternative creator of the physical world that is not God?
And what do we do about suffering? Like the Buddhist we live minimalist? Or like the Catharies we sit it out to starve ourselves?
The degree of suffering is variable to everything conceived and it is built into its conception, like a demonic possession.
So here is the basic universal question. What do we do about it.
Laws don't help because they just result in bureaucratic random effect on suffering.
Churches of various religions may be better but they don't get very far either because of doctrinal self trapping.
So let's have a free association of thoughts, what can be done about suffering?