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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Without bad, we wouldn't know good.[/quote]
So kids need to suffer and die of cancer so you can appreciate a sunset? Right.

OP, the answer is that there very likely is no God. Once you accept that, you will find more peace and realize that you should aim [b]to put out as much love and positive energy into the world and it will both come back to you and sustain you during hard times[/b]. There's not some mystery you're missing out on, some lesson you're not getting. If God tries to teach us lessons by creating child soldiers and Catholic priests that rape children, then we should all just end it now and stop being pawns in his sick game. [/quote]

This belief is just as flawed as a belief in god.  Ultimately, you are espousing a belief in karma -- that if you put out positive energy, it will come back to you.  But that isn't true either.

I suspect there is no god.  But in addition to that, the new age stuff about putting out good energy is also not true.  The universe is a random, arbitrary place.   Sure, there are biological systems, et cetera, but most scientists will tell you that even those systems are pretty precarious and small things can throw it all off.

People tell themselves things in order to shield them from the uncertainty of life and give them enough comfort to function, but the reality is that we do what we can but a lot of it is really up to chance and circumstance.

It's terrifying when you really come to terms with it.  That's why people invented religion.  Ultimately, the search for certainty is also what led man into so many other areas of inquiry -- philosophy, physics, science.  It's something that has terrified humans since time began.  But no matter what our genius invents, the uncertainty, precariousness of life remains.

It is the one thing I envy most about other species.  Most of them live pretty firmly in the present, so they don't dwell on the uncertainty and therefore don't seem to need religion or constant dialog or constant contemplation or discourse or inquiry.  They just live and don't try to make sense out of something that in and off itself has no sense.

If we perceive order in the world, it is not because there is more order than chaos.  It is because we want to see order and block out the chaos as much as we can.  But sometimes tragedy comes so close to home that we can't block it out anymore.  And that's when we start asking these questions.[/quote]

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