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Originally Posted by Max Power  We do not want a perfect world and we do not want a perfect anything, that is not the point of it all. |
What if everything is already perfect? What if this is exactly the way the world needs to be to get to where it's going? Especially if you believe that pain and suffering are necessary :-)
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Originally Posted by Max Power Peace and love are wonderful emotions, feelings and thoughts, but they could not exist without their opposites. As hard as it is to fathom, we require all the pain and suffering, it's a prerequisite |
As far as I can tell, hate
is love, from a confused perspective. Love and hate are not opposites, but the same thing. Anything that looks like hate has a massive pile of love at the bottom of it. Seriously, can you think of
anything that anyone does that isn't motivated by wanting a better world (wanting to take good care of people, places, and things)? The problem is that we never know for sure what a better world would be, so sometimes our love comes out a bit confused and looks, to the untrained eye, like hate.
That uncertainty is why I've decided to see reality (including the universe, our world, and me, too!) is already perfect, and that the only real suffering comes when I try to fight with reality (reality always wins, ya know?). And my reality right now is learning about the world, and sharing that knowledge with others, and acting in ways that I believe are healthy for me and everyone else. And that's just
perfect, as far as I can tell.
-Turtle