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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." Ecclesiastes 7:4[/quote]

in other words, crying is better than laughing?[/quote]
Not that they're needed, but in other words, there is more wisdom to be gained in difficult times than in easy ones. The PP above who said it's "sick" that God allows tragedies to help us grow is kidding himself. We all know that we gain in understanding, compassion, empathy, etc., by having to go through difficult times.[/quote]

Sure, but there are lots of ways to grow that don't require suffering, financial reversal and even death -- yours or a loved one's.  Also, people can learn from good things happening, too and [b]even from stories of other people's travails[/b].[/quote]

This all sounds very glib to me. Yay, I read about how to be a better person and then it happened. Yay, I got a promotion and that made me a better person. And what’s that about learning from others’ travails, as if the bad things should happen to your friends but not to you?[/quote]

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