So god comes down slaps you on the forehead and explains the reason for your suffering. Then he leaves. You still suffer, but now you know why. Any improvement there for you?
Year after year you will struggle with that answer wondering why the fuck it doesn't alleviate your suffering nor give you the direction in life you hoped it would.
It takes ten years to get over the stench of enlightenment.
The answers give no solace, only the reason. Why would you expect knowing why to suddenly make your life fucking wonderful
I think you make an extremely valid point, and i don't want your comment to go unnoticed.
Also, i'm sorry if i came off as being mean... i know i do that sometimes. But how can you tell people to let go of their attachment to their ideas when you yourself can't? It seems preposterous to me to hold a double standard like that.
It also sickens me, when humans attempt to say that "if you would only believe in this idea, your life will be complete and you can attain peace and happiness" when there are people in the world in this exact moment who are in extreme amounts of pain and suffering... who are dying of thirst and starvation. No idea is going to help anyone unless they have enough food and clean water to drink.
The world isn't as happy and comfortable for everyone as our country would like you to believe, it is full of misery and terror, greed and unfairness, pain and suffering. Just because we have warm beds to sleep in at night, does not mean that everyone does. This is not the case at all.
Most of us in wealthy countries have the time to worry about what we can do differently to make us happy, how we can be happy with accepting different ideas and ideologies while we have fucking full stomachs, we can buy anything we want with enough money, we can drive around in cars, see places we've never seen and go places we've never been. And we STILL complain, we still say our life is incomplete and try to give ourselves excuses to believe in some idea that will give us hope in a world that is not complete. Most people do not have access to any of these things, nor do they have any of those privileges. They are worrying about survival, whether or not they are going to eat today, or get sick from the water they drink. It is wise, in my opinion, to never forget this.
Maybe if we remember these things, we'll stop being so damn selfish and try to do something about the pain, suffering and inequality in the world... rather than accepting the world the way it is and pretending everything will be ok if only we believe in a certain idea.
