I really appreciate you continuing the conversation in such an open and respectful way. Yay us!!
I definitely think life is hard, so that we may know what "blissful" and "heaven" mean. Without dark, how would we know light?? I believe that God wants us to "grow up" to be strong, resourceful people of character who can help rule the kingdom, and, like any good parent, he kicks our butts to keep us in line and respectful. The less respectful we are, the more painful life is.
I also believe that God gave us the POTENTIAL to be incredibly strong and godlike ourselves. However, this power was not put in the hands of the undeserving - we must show ourself worthy through character, experience and history.
Thank you for the continuing reminder to not feed into the evil that already exists.
Yeah for sure man, I'm here to discover the truth and I'm prepared even to change my ideas!!
But oh boy, "Without ddark, how woud we know light?"
How wrong you are!
OK guys let's just think about this.
First I've seen this question so many times, asked in that question way. As if it's a self-evident fact!
So if we have never known cold, we wouldn't know what hot is.
Basically it's yin yang taoism teachings.
To me, this is like the people who tell someone depressed: "Hey, don't feel so bad, there's starving kids in africa, you could be one of them, others have it worse."
Isn't this sick? How is them starving helping my life?
AnsweR: In no way whatsoever. These two are totally unrelated events.
I think that this is another glaring illuminati psy-op that says without evil you don't know what's love.
And why?
They say:
with no pain for contrast, we can't know good.
but why should we accept we need contrast to know good?
the hidden premiss:
nothing is self-evident
since good is not self-evident, neither evil are self-evident, they need each other to explain each other
but CLEARLY this is wrong, for feeling good IS self evident!!
Just imagine the very first time you stung yourself on a roses's thorn... picking the beauty...
or maybe a sharp stick etc...
it STUNG! Yet you immediately knew "This pain means I should remove my hand from the sting"
even if you hadn't seen the thorn with your eyes, just the FEELING means this
IT doesn't mean "I should put my hand further into the thorn"
Why? It's self-evident
So in the same way, why isn't love self-evident?
If god is teaching us through pain, is he un-creative? Why can't he teach us from good directly? Is evil a better teacher than good?
And gow did god himself learn what's good? Did god need to feel evil before? Did god learn through pain?
No! God can't feel bad! No one would seriously contend this.
(I'll be back later for more convo!!)
