Do you feel a deep desire to help in some way, or do you feel that there is no way that you can help?
2006-07-25 06:27:46 · 10 answers · asked by Caroline 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It's hard to make sense of it. It's not our true nature to inflict harm on the earth and each other but it does seem to be human nature. It could be from ignorance of the goodness that naturally stems from our true self.
I do feel a deep desire to help but I also realize that as long as there are humans there will be suffering in this world.
I've learned to not make the world's suffering my own. I used to be bothered by it so much that I realized I was actually suffering just from seeing how the world suffers! but now I realize that to end my own suffering is the most compassionate thing I can do for the world. To heal myself and not add hurt to anyone who may cross my path is the path and the goal.
Of course I do take action when needed or when I feel compelled to do so and I try to do little things everyday to ease any suffering I see, it's just now any action comes from a certain detached compassion.
2006-07-26 14:46:22 · answer #1 · answered by .. 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Of course I feel compelled to help those who are suffering. Just as any other compassionate human being would. It is in my opinion that suffering today is a guide for people. It shows them how to have hope. It teaches them to be grateful. It sets an example of how things can go wrong in life. It shows us that life is short and that we take every minute for granted. There is no way that individual people can make a HUGE change, but everything matters to someone. The homeless person on the sidewalk appretiates the $2 you slipped him on your way to work. The marathon you ran that helped raise money to research a disease, and that research will mean a lot to family of those suffering (not because its to help them, but because people are doing this as a statement). To the abandoned puppy that you helped to find a home. To the elderly lady accross the street that can't get her mail on her own. To the kids in africa that peace corps volunteers give vaccines to. It made a difference to all of them.
2006-07-25 07:13:38 · answer #2 · answered by aerosmithbaby05 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
evaluate me an ex-Christian. a million. I got here to the top lengthy beforehand I deserted Christianity that God's approval of atrocities replaced into layered on after the very actuality to justify atrocities that the Israelites felt in charge about. If God approved it or extra ideal yet ordered it, they did no longer might want to experience in charge about it after the very actuality. or perhaps the clergymen in those early days truly were that bloodthirsty. yet I under no circumstances figured God approved of any of that stuff. 2. Makes little experience, yet we are talking ritual sacrifice. each and every thing is symbolic in ritual sacrifice. it is plenty like the former custom of loading the sins of the community on the scapegoat. 3. it is extremely a question, isn't it? I had no rationalization for it even as i replaced right into a Christian. Now I do: the thoughts the position God made a gigantic prepare are all both fantasy or misinterpretation of organic activities. 4. because they're instructed to trust that. in my opinion, i imagine Jesus taught no such ingredient. i imagine he taught that the dominion of God replaced into presented about each and every time someone gave himself over to the worship of God completely. to that end the dominion replaced into both continuously modern to persons that believed and continuously interior of attain for those being counseled. 7. Your premise is defective. The bible does no longer state that maximum each and every man or woman is going to Hell. The Bible under no circumstances shows that that i will tell. i imagine strictly reading the NT, you won't be able to make certain who's or isn't kept.
2016-10-15 04:52:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As all rivers flow to the sea, all life seeks the Truth. There are many paths and some are twisted, but ultimately life merges with Truth. The Truth is unknowable in its essence on this plane of existence. All aspects of life are pieces of it. Since we can't yet know the whole truth, we can't understand how some pieces are a part of it. Suffering is a part of life. Evil is a part. By leading moral lives we offset (and hopefully overwhelm) the indifferent and negative behavior of too many others.
2006-07-25 08:00:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a battle of resources... They are limited.
Land
Food
Water
Money
Possessions
Once the populations needs out grow the resources... Bad things happen. (Famine, war, genocide)
As far as the deep desire to help???
Yes, but not with my 2 hands in the here and now... I will leave a legacy a lot of the work in my life will be dedicated to that legacy.
2006-07-25 06:49:02 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was just asking myself that very question yesterday,,and here is the only thing i could find to fill the hurt in my soul for this world,,
there is good,,as much bad as there is ,,there is good,,and beauty,,,and love,,and not everyone wants destruction and war,,but unfortunately the kind of men who would be power hungry enough to be in charge are usually too power hungry and lose sight of whats right,,,go take a walk in nature,,think of laughing children,,rich or poor,,children seem to find a way to smile,,and keep hoping,,its the only way to make it through is to just not give up.
2006-07-25 06:44:54 · answer #6 · answered by castiowolf 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You don't make sense of it. It is what it is. It has been that way since the beginning of time and will remain so. You can't change the world but you can volunteer in your community (food pantry, clean up someone's yard, etc.). Check with your local chamber of commerce or on the Web.
2006-07-25 06:44:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I recently wrote that a master is a slave (we're all slaves) who affirms and actively wills his own suffering. However, this does not apply to his own suffering only, but to *all* suffering. A master affirms and actively wills all the suffering in the world today, including the suffering he himself causes. And not only today, but all the suffering there has ever been and will ever be.
2006-07-25 07:44:48 · answer #8 · answered by sauwelios@yahoo.com 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It does NOT make sense, Caroline!!
I do my best to understand and to help people and don't think I will ever be able to see people suffering without suffering myself...
2006-07-28 10:24:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
CHIT HAPPENS.....ITS NOT RATIONAL AND SUFFERING DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE AT ALL......GOT A MAGIC WAND?
2006-07-25 06:40:09 · answer #10 · answered by flowerspirit2000 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋