If you were creator

[Chriliman]

My life is my path, and my goals in life direct the path I take. Through out my life’s journey I’ve reached many cross roads in life that I had to choose which road to take. Sometimes I’ve taken the right road, other times I’ve taken the wrong road, but I am constantly making decisions on which road to take. I think because of my goals, even when I take the wrong road, I eventually get back on the right path which is where I consider myself on right now.

Ken

Sounds good. Continue being honest with yourself and others and Im sure you'll find the path that will lead to absolute truth.

 

[brinny]

That would be a good reason not to have eternal life and happiness at all.

If that idea really made any sense, which it doesn't.


eudaimonia,

Mark

Soooooo....someone suffering miserably in this life...that's IT for them? Someone killed wantonly, hated, hunted down, and the last thing they see is the one(s) hating and despising them face(s) snuffing their life out in a horror of a manner, but torturing them first, and that's it?

Would you be so kind as to elaborate how this balances out vs those who have an easy and un-threatened existence?

Thank you kindly.

 

[Eudaimonist]

Soooooo....someone suffering miserably in this life...that's IT for them?

If that means that no one ends up with an eternity of suffering, then yes. That would be the preferable alternative.

Someone killed wantonly, hated, hunted down, and the last thing they see is the one(s) hating and despising them face(s) snuffing their life out in a horror of a manner, but torturing them first, and that's it?

Ask yourself, if eternal happiness depends on the existence of eternal suffering, would you want to see others go through what you describe above for an eternity, like being trapped in a nightmare forever?

(Yes, bad stuff happens. Good stuff happens too. One should accept reality. Hopefully the good is enough to make one's life worthwhile, but there are no guarantees. This is why we should be compassionate towards other people.)

Would you be so kind as to elaborate how this balances out vs those who have an easy and un-threatened existence?

What does balance have to do with it? I'm comparing two alternative -- one in which suffering is unending versus one where suffering is limited. I'm siding with limited. You seems to be siding with unending.

In my created utopia, everyone would have an un-threatened existence, but the reality of our world is otherwise. I realize that the hard edges of our world are difficult to accept, but they exist regardless.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[brinny]

If that means that no one ends up with an eternity of suffering, then yes. That would be the preferable alternative.



Ask yourself, if eternal happiness depends on the existence of eternal suffering, would you want to see others go through what you describe above for an eternity, like being trapped in a nightmare forever?

(Yes, bad stuff happens. Good stuff happens too. One should accept reality. Hopefully the good is enough to make one's life worthwhile, but there are no guarantees. This is why we should be compassionate towards other people.)



What does balance has to do with it? I'm comparing two alternative -- one in which suffering is unending versus one where suffering is limited. I'm siding with limited. You seems to be siding with unending.

In my created utopia, everyone would have an un-threatened existence, but the reality of our world is otherwise. I realize that the hard edges of our world are difficult to accept, but they exist regardless.


eudaimonia,

Mark

Thanks Mark, i appreciate your willingness to be so honest......suffering is a hard concept for me as well, always has been.

 

[quatona]

I'm using the word path to define my existence in space and time. There isn't anything I can do to change space/time, although I can make choices that may effect the outcome of what happens in space/time, but after said things happen and I look back, I realize there is nothing I can do to change what happened. So before said things happened I had the belief that I can make a choice to effect my future, but when that future passes and becomes the past, I realize there is nothing I can do to change it.

The question is since I can't see the future I can't know for sure if there was anything I did that actually changed the future or if the future is already set to happen I just have to experience it to realize I'm on one unchangeable path in space/time.

Which, even if accepting your special definition, doesn´t mean there´s only one path, but there´s only one path FOR YOU.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

I like the word "for". I am all for it.

 

[bhsmte]

Speaking of suffering. If I was the creator, I would end the suffering of Cub's fans and have them win the World Series.

 

[HondaMan]

Fact is, the "what if" is never going to be in terms of any of us being God.

Would I do a better job? No. God is God and he knows better than anyone else. Did God fail at creation? No. We failed to keep living in his presence.