06-17-2018, 04:05 PM
(05-28-2018, 12:30 AM)Cannon Wrote: This is an issue quite close to my heart and has caused me great despair. The reason for the possibility of suffering according to my understanding is due to our individuality, our preferences. In order to have infinite individuality, one must have preferences, and in order to manifest those preferences, one must be able to experience that which they do not prefer. The suffering of our people is the logical result of these ideas, free will, and a load of regrettable decisions made by many, many individuals. I am not totally satisfied with this answer, but to me, it means that only the possibility of suffering is necessary, not the actual experience of it. This idea provides me some comfort.
In my opinion, suffering is that which by its own nature should not be explored or studied in such ways as it is being done now on Earth or anywhere else, not even by the One Infinite Creator.
I like what you said : it means that only the possibility of suffering is necessary, not the actual experience of it. This is food for thought for me. Yes it is an ongoing struggle for me as well, since I have always believed all life is one. I have always felt even as a child that at some point in time I would experience everything experienced and of course as I look around me that idea scares me terribly. I am under the new belief that God isn't actually as all powerful as we as humans conceive that to be, that perhaps God is the subject of its own rules and laws and self knowledge and free will are two rules it must abide by??!!!