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Originally Posted by Antiventurecapital  This is so unbelievably ************ed up, that I hope you are trolling us.
No one in their right mind could seriously suggest that a child attracted rape and murder.
I was watching a talk by Ken Wilbur last week where he called this New Age guilt fetish an absurdity. It's hard not to agree with him.
We need to avoid both extremes as the truth probably lies in the middle: we have more control than we often like to admit but are well short of being gods. |
No one in their right mind? But AVC, isnt this
precisely what LOA believers
believe in? Surely the fact that it was a little girl and the fact that it was a horrible, horrible event does not change how the law works? The law does not defer to our sense of morality, does it?
My personal beliefs are aligned with those of Ken Wilbur, who you mention above. I believe we are all co-creators. We can control what we do, but not the outcome thereof. That is in the hands of God/Universe, and all outcomes are governed by this higher wisdom which we cannot always understand. Our task in this life is to do our best, to be sure, but in choosing how we respond to what happens to us in life - this is what defines us.
I think the reason why LOA practicsioners leap to the defense of their art so vehemently is because it they havent reconciled what they believe about it fully without themselves. And concerning the case raised above with the little girl, its no wonder. Contradictions abound.
If the LOA was really the truth they understood it to be, nobody would feel the least bit inclined to defend it. Thats why the truth is such a wonderful, liberating thing to embrace - it needs no defense.
The LOA, apparently, requires a helluva lot.