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Originally Posted by renie408  You have a flaw in your logic. You presume that we choose our life experiences and cannot therefore whine if we are acted on by outside forces. Is not the molester an outside force? And did not the child choose their experience? If we ran the world according to the 'we are all experiencing things we have chosen' school, then there really should be no laws. It would mean that some people have 'chosen' to be predators and some people have 'chosen' to be prey. When that little four year old girl is repeatedly raped by a grown man, strangled and has her body thrown out on the side of a desert road (true story), that was an experience she chose to have before she was born. Therefore, how can you denounce the rapist? This is the problem I start having when you get into 'we choose' scenarios. I cannot support any spirituality or belief system which includes the torture of children as a logical working part. It's why I don't do God. It's why I don't do any of the 'we choose our experiences before we were born' deals or, really, even a completely subjective reality. I can accept that bad things will sometimes happen to innocent people because negative energy is working through someone else and needs an outlet and the innocent person was not actively attracting positive energy to deflect it. These are my personal mental gymnastics to work my way around '♥♥♥♥♥ happens'. I get that other people handle it differently. |
It's not a flaw in my logic because you don't happen to subscribe to it. It just doesn't work in your map of reality. And when I say we choose to have a certain human experience I don't mean that we look at a possible human venue and see it all mapped out. Not "Oh I am going to be born here because I will be raped and killed", rather the fact that it is a possibility and you attract those experiences you want to have. While it is tragic, it all makes up the human experience, because the fact is we do have free will, which is the same thing that makes saints as well as child rapists. People seem to want to deny the duality of it all and have only one side. There can't be one without the other, which is why in even in the most successful and happy persons life there is tragedy at one point or another. The beauty is that it is just a human experience, one of many you can choose to have throughout your infinity. While it may be uncomfortable, and a little morbid, they are all still experiences. I am sure you can think of myriad times you came out of a horrible experience a stronger and better person.