The ways of Love and Hate (and technology)

[Stranger]

It is for the same reasons that fear attracts fearful situations, sadness invites more sadness, and so forth

So did the external event really cause it?  Or did some resonance just get triggered, and the pattern was just dormant?  I'm more of the view that it's the latter.

So someone who genuinely has no doubt, can't have doubt be triggered in them, and someone who has no sadness or regrets, can't have that triggered, no matter how violent or extreme the external event.

Plenum I agree - my use of "fearful situations" was shorthand for "situations which can be expected to trigger fear in person X" as opposed to "inherently frightening situations."  It's about the emotion - experiencing a negative emotion predisposes one to continue in that experience as long as choices aren't being made differently by the individual.  Evolutionary theorists often wonder, how is it that depression could have evolved?  What is its adaptive value?  The answer seems to be that the value of depression is not to the organism but to the evolving soul, as catalyst.

Minyatur: It's not my universe because I, as the individuated form of the Creator, did not create it -- e.g., it is not my idea that once someone becomes profoundly depressed, it should be virtually impossible for them to escape it.  Of course, at the level of of unity that logic breaks down.