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Originally Posted by Antiventurecapital  I am always amazed by people's need to believe that they are doomed in this life from the get-go. I refer to it as the "guilt fetish". Whether it's because of Original Sin or having been Hitler in a previous life, it's all the same fetish for self-flagellation.
I spent 12 years in a private Catholic boys' school thinking "The only thing I'm guilty of is having been born. The rest is all a blank slate."
Here's another interpretation of suffering. We are biological creatures in a physical world who are programmed to live for about 70 years. During that period both good and bad things happen to us for readily explainable reasons. Sometimes, you really just are in the wrong place at the wrong time. The scum who murdered the little girl probably stalked her for weeks until an opportunity presented itself for abduction.
I suggest that people read the thoughts of physicists on this issue. Many will tell you that what strikes them the most about the universe is its utter indifference to us. Occam's Razor, folks. Use it.  |
Nobody wants to die. I want to really believe in some kind of 'soul energy recycling' deal. But even if I get there, I still don't think I could believe that your soul accrues credits or debits that follow you from life to life. Or that if it did, you could be killed for them before you even get a chance to 'settle your debt'. If the theory behind reincarnation is that you keep coming back til you grow enough that you don't need to anymore, how fair is it to kill you when you are a baby? How were you supposed to have grown any? Or does that 'even the score' and the next time you come back you get a chance to live longer? And how in the hell does anybody KNOW this stuff is right anyway? And why would somebody find it more easy to believe all of that than that we just live and die and Bob's your Uncle?