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Originally Posted by Redjake
Why does evil exist????????
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Because so does free will.
We are not slaves to God; we are merely slaves to the consequences of our actions and the actions of others--this is the challenge of free will: figuring out how to deal with the law of causation in the universe as spirits free to choose what we will.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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