Zone1 Why Do Bad Things Happen?

[Woodznutz]

So we can tell when something good happens.

"Why are you hitting yourself on the head with that hammer?"
"Because it feels so good when I stop."

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Deeper, as in down the rabbit hole?

I'm talking about choice as a verb, not a noun.

"My Way or the Highway" Means Your Choice-Deciders' Way Is the Low Way

 

[Unkotare]

Deeper, as in down the rabbit hole?

I'm talking about choice as a verb, not a noun.

"Choice" is a noun. "Choose" is a verb.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

One of the most facile "arguments" that atheists often fall back on is the banal "If God loves us, why does he let bad things happen?"

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​ ​ "God’s delays are mysterious; sorrow is sometimes prolonged for the same reason for which it is sent. God may abstain for the moment from healing, not because Love does not love, but because Love never stops loving, and a greater good is to come from the woe. Heaven’s clock is different from ours." —Fulton J. Sheen​

More facile is thinking everything good that happens is "thank God".
God isn't a micro manager, or a backseat driver.
He set the stage, put up the lights, provided the theatre.
What we do on that stage is entirely our own doing.

 

[ding]

By choice
You see the worlds problems are by choice, even our negative defeatest approach, our blocking out of good sound advice over group affiliation pride & or human ego.
IT'S by choice that we do not seek one understanding through defining the most finite source and power in life, so that with the most finite expression we no longer use subjective opinions on what is in line or opposing that purpose and direction in life. With knowledge of how things are and how things could be and how to recognize good or bad right or wrong without it being mere subjective opinions then we have something we never had, known purpose,known goals, known direction, know how to recognize true opposition to life and true reflections and manifestations of it's essence.

Like I said, we chose not to simply define the simplest of things and that's by choice, we simply choose to live this way. If you don't believe me then why is there a huge difference in how people live country to country, community to community, school district to school district, and from camps outside prison to being inside prisons?

People in prison choose to live in agression, rage, violence, fear, gang mentality, ego/pride, revenge, hate/anger, selfishness, animosity, and thus live in their own hell and yet it could be like a sleep over camp where they work together and enjoy each others time or like a commune where paradise is possible as they make things good for one another taking away burdens, sharing chores, interests etc, all by choice. Neighborhoods same way, end violent behavior and threats and crime and you build value in property and community and higher pay with better jobs and more conveniences.
Once again by choice.

Sure... at any point in time we are the sum of our choices. But the thing is... not everyone has the same choices.

 

[Woodznutz]

"Choice" is a noun. "Choose" is a verb.

I meant choice as in whether to act upon something or not.