Stop Blaming God

How lazy and cliche, how self-centered a thought to suggest that everything that malfunctions in one's life is God's fault. As if He owes us a life free from strife.
To live is to suffer. Love it or leave it. When suffering comes to a definite end, so does life.
Why shouldn't we have to learn from our mistakes? Why shouldn't we learn that life isn't fair and that life disappoints us? Why shouldn't we learn that life is fragile and we should cherish every moment He gave us?

This is not Eden.

To hurl back another cliche: This too shall pass. It always does, doesn't it? Be aware of your feelings, experience them, explore them, but don't let them become you. Don't let them eclipse the gift that is LIFE.
Not our "lives"- those silly little mortal games we tend to assign more meaning than they're worth. Life- consciousness- BEING.
Go sit in the woods. Pick some flowers. Eat some berries. Watch the birds. Try and remember what it was like to track the herds and follow the rivers and suddenly this plastic world we've built for ourselves seems obscenely artificial- superficial.
It's a sad world right now, with everyone preoccupied with those little pieces of paper that have become so rare that our little plastic world is threatened. Everything seems uncertain. I don't have an answer to anyone's financial, family or relationship problems, but I do know that whatever it is, IT WILL PASS. Not because God will fix it for you, silly little mortal, but because you have the strength to outlast it. If you'll only not lay down and die, but stand in defiance of all that challenges you.

 

Agree. I found this quote by Hermann Hesse interesting.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

 

I like that.
Obviously it takes a lot to "love" your suffering. I know I'm not there yet... but I can tolerate it without screaming at the top of my lungs at my deity for not giving me a bigger tax return.

 

... God?

 

Yeah. That dude that does the thing.

 

ohhh you mean GOD!

wait so youre not a mortal!?

 

but I am God and I am the only one to blame for my mistakes!

 

...?

Clever.

 

exactly

 

We are like "nodes on the mycilium" that is the energy mass we call the universe.

We are the universe becoming aware of itself...

ZW eace:

 

Cool...

 

yeaaAah.

*snaps*

 

Thanks, Peeps

Ya'lls Groovy


ZW

 

I apologzie, but this all seems a bit touchy-feely to me. Yay, berries! Berries make everything better! Sitting by the side of a rive, no matter how beautiful the water may be, does not quell all my regrets, insecurities, and total dissapointment in the way people are acting. I don't blame a god for shit, we did it, it's our fault, it's time everyone starts owning up to their damn mistakes, apologize, and just don't do it again. We all have freedom to do whatever we want, and so we build hives, and busy ourselves in our hives, and we never realize that if there is anything out there in space, it's probably huge and it doesn't see us as people, it sees as a bacteria culture, or perhaps a insect nest of some sort. We don't realize how tiny and completely insignificant we are in the grand scope of everything. And we don't want to think about it, because it scares us, so we buy, buy, buy and dance for the laughing masses of skinny-jean wearing cool people.

Can your god fix that? Prove to me not only that he exists, but that he cares. Can you?

 

Okay, I see your disappointment in human beings, and I share it. What I was saying was, direct it toward something positive, not God, because it's a ridiculous place to aim it. If you don't believe in God, that's your business. This was not meant to push His existence on anyone. It was a retaliation to all of those who do believe in Him that insist on blaming Him for shit: people dying, their purse getting stolen, the economy, shit like that. My whole point was that He DOESN'T fix things for us, and I imagine that if He did, we would never learn anything.
I don't have to prove a damn thing. And I'm sorry if you think that appreciating the place we've been given to play is "touchy-feely." I don't think it's touchy-feely at all. Nature is cruel. Life's not fair. We survive. Looking back on the past and seeing the bare necessities that we were given to work with is comforting to me when life's pressures get me down, because sometimes I think, "wow, that's not really important, is it?" or if I'm feeling particularly optimistic, "my God, how far we've come and we don't even acknowledge it- only condemn it or abuse it."
You can't be down all the time. A lot of times it's a choice- a matter of dwelling on it or not. I know sometimes it hits you like a ton of bricks and you can't stop it. You don't know how you will ever survive, but the point is, you will, and sometimes that's all you need to know.

 

God is a perspective unto itself. All I can prove is that we encourage ourselves to thrive and live. We make our own decisions in life, from day to day tasks to ultimate goals and that will reflect from our own personal beliefs.

so, from what your questioning, I would reply: Do you care?

if you care, then "god" cares.

 

it doesn't really matter. we're alive for a moment and then we're dead forever.

 

well then you obviously don't care.

 

Absolutely.

That's why we should all be " digging it while it's happening"


ZW eace:

 

Agree Zombiewolf. I found this quote.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ~Albert Camus