Are we really just getting what is due us?
2006-12-03 14:18:28 · 19 answers · asked by Silva 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You never complain , why is it there is so much happiness and joy in this life. Why? Do we think that happiness is our legitimate due and unhappiness is, unjustifyably ,thrust on us? I think we should ponder upon it. Many saints and wise people have thought about it.
They say that being happy is our natural self and , hence , we donot feel odd if we are happy. The state of being unhappy , indeed , tells us "do something" about it and get out of it. Instead of getting out of it , here we are, analysing the reason for it.
The only way we can accept BOTH happiness and unhappiness is the theory that sooner or later our actions catch up with us . Their reactions will certainly affect us. By looking at this life , in isolation, will give only incomplete explanation. If we made mistakes in our childhood who corrects us? Mother. Later , in our lives , the society. But from the borth to the end we are constantly monitored. There is no punishement at all. Humans have been given the freewill to choose between doing the right thing and the not so right. You choose and you reap the benefit.
2006-12-03 14:49:38 · answer #1 · answered by YD 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a buddhist and you may not like the Buddhist perspective.
We suffer because we choose to. It's that simple. When, say, a loved one dies and we are wracked with grief the question is "Why did this person die" and there is pain and gnashing of teeth - from a Buddhist-philosophy perspective we ask, "Why are you so selfish?" - you see, grief is a result of the child within being told they can never have this comforting thing again. It's selfishness.
These aren't popular answers, but it's what we believe.
2006-12-04 01:18:23 · answer #2 · answered by mytraver 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can think of a number of people who would never have chosen to experience the pain and suffering that they have in this life. In some cases they have physical ailments, in others they are emotional. Until our society learns more about healing the latter, of course some people will have trouble overcoming their emotional injuries. I don't think such people are choosing to suffer. Rather, I see them as preparing to journey in a jungle without a guide. Of course, with no guide they'll be lost.
2006-12-03 23:08:24 · answer #3 · answered by away team 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ignorance...belief that external circumstances make us experience pain and suffering...We creating pain and suffering ourselves...and we have no idea how to create differently...Everything we think, believe, and then do is a creational tool. "Doing" actually is essential part of first too..So, we do everything out of ignorance, for not many knows themselves really.Those who knows silently painless. Why silently? Those who is in constant effort to create pain for themselves do not like those who is painless....That is why Crucifixion was invented....and now that procedure taking many forms...I am sure we are all experiencing that forms, at work, being in a family, from friends....term Crucifixion easily would be replaced by word Judgment....Do you like to be judged? I bet you don't...there is nest of pain and suffering we enjoying time to time..not easy to believe? That is why the question you ask is so common on this site. Not to "believe" means to believe that those things is foolish..Nothing is foolish in our environment...Smart or foolish is a matter of judgment...and matter of judgment is further pain and suffering. Circle complete.
2006-12-03 22:44:22 · answer #4 · answered by Oleg B 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not think we are getting what is necessarily due us. Life is full of pain and suffering. It is also full of love and joy. Life is not for wimps and nobody gets out alive. Enjoy the flowers as we go along.
2006-12-03 22:27:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Instead of viewing it as pain and suffering, look at it as learning opportunities.
People who don't suffer don't get the most of life. People who have had everything handed to them don't appreciate what they have. If you've suffered for it, you appreciate it and life more.
So, it sucks while you are going through it, but once you get through it, you can look back on it and appreciate your life that much more. And you can be grateful that you were given an opportunity to improve who you are.
2006-12-03 22:20:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
We are in an uphill battle against entropy. We even have laws that descibe this phenomena, the irreversiblle trend toward disorder. Murphy's Law is just one aspect of the uphill battle we face every day. Our poor ol earth will be burnt to a crisp in billions of years from now by the supernova of our sun, so our destiny's are interlinked.
What's the moral of the story....live for the moment.
2006-12-03 22:48:49 · answer #7 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there is more pain and suffering outside of society. We should be grateful. Part of this could be from just wanting more, but that's a good thing.
When did Joan of Arc die? 19? Now we are living to like 95 and complaining? Joan would be pissed....
2006-12-03 22:23:10 · answer #8 · answered by OhIdonno 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's all relative - if you didn't know what pain and suffering were like, you would never know what it means to feel joy and happiness. (If you believe in karma, then yes, we are really getting what is due to us).
2006-12-03 22:42:02 · answer #9 · answered by kaus 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes we have pain and suffering in our lives to teach us things and to make us thankful for the good things.GOD tells us he will put no more on us then we can bare even though we think at times we can not bare anymore.But you look back and see you made through that hurdle and trust and believein him and you will make it over the other one to.I promise if you trust and believe you will make through.
2006-12-03 22:24:27 · answer #10 · answered by DEANA K 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋