Frans, your world .. your subjective reality .. is only relative if you decide it is so, and of course you are free to do so, in your subjective reality.
Your question - as to whether suffering is necessary, that we might then understand bliss - is a common one, and to the great misfortune of humanity is often answered with a resounding YES by any person(s) who wish to gain control over others as well as persons who do not wish to do the work of I-M for themselves.
In other words, your claim of duality and the necessity of human suffering is exactly the basis for most religions .. that this world is about pain, the next world is about beauty, so we should all just accept whatever happens in this world, and put something into the collection plate.
The lack of logic leaves me with that old Bill-n-Ted call:
bogus!
Ultimately, your call is to those who would choose to not guide their own lives. Your appeal is to those who refuse to command their own realities.
The drive to research and experiment with intention-manifesting springs from a desire to lick every drop of joy from every moment of consciousness. The hypothesis is that reality has sprung from some single source, and that the nature of Nature is that the power of prayer (regardless of the target of that prayer) is effective.
To those of you who are on the path of exploration, I hope you will continue to become the Masters of your own lives, I hope you will continue to recognize the Unity at the heart of reality, and I hope you will continue to shape your reality as you see fit.
You bless
you.
@Acting Like Godot
Yes, in my reality, I am the programmer, reality is the program, the Source is the development environment, and I-M is the tool.
Programmer: Code Thyself!