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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here again. To 20:08, how is there no more confusion about horrible violence?  Can you explain that to me?  I'm being serious. I want to believe in God because it seems to bring comfort and answers to so many people but as I've said above, the illogical answers don't provide me any comfort or answers. I just can't think we're here for no purpose, stuff happens, some of it horrible, then we die. How do you reconcile all of these things?  Thanks.[/quote]

There's no more confusion, because without factoring a beneficent, omniscient god into the picture, then whatever happens is random - so theres no more confusion or need to explain how such things could happen to good people.  Things just happen - for good or ill.  Now, humans exert some control in many situations, to be sure, but we can't stop the random tsunami or flood, or car wreck or rape or lightening bolt, or infectious disease.

I'm not sure what you mean by "how do you reconcile all of these things" - I think I don't reconcile them, or I reconcile them by accepting an element of luck in everything about my life -- including being born in the first place -- and recognizing the possibility of bad luck striking along the way -- and knowing that I'll die in the end - like every other human that has had the good luck of ever being born. That's what I focus on -- the luck of being born at all.

I think we define our own purpose once we're here -- depending on the time in which we live and the opportunities presented to us.  Some people feel a need to be attached to something grander than their own existence and some don't.  We all die in the end, but that doesn't mean our lives were useless while we existed - at least it doesn't to me. I hope you can find that peace.
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