abaya

Xepherys, you have summarized much of what I myself have come to believe... nice way of putting things. I struggled for a long time with the idea that accidents were really just accidents, that there was no meaning behind them; but then I realized that if I really went around attaching some kind of meaning to everything, then I would start to believe that some people deserved bad things to happen to them, while others did not, etc etc. If God exists and allows things to be anything other than random, I don't see how he could be a just God. And my God, if I am to believe in him, must be fair above all else. I do think that there is meaning in suffering, that there are choices one can make in response to pain, but there is not something divine behind them. I think that life is what we make of it, and that the pursuit of God/spirituality is very important and healthy overall, but that one must have the freedom to pursue those things in whichever way one would like.

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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
--Khalil Gibran