The positive benefits of "virginia tech Cho" shooting ordeal.?

Question

Do we as society understand death?

Does a "victim of a shooting" actually mean that in the 50-billion-year-old history of this universe, that someone dies .0000001% sooner?

Is "dying" the tragedy? If society were all muslim or all-catholic--would we believe that they all "went to magic-heaven"?

I am a semi-atheist.

I believe that death is the most depressing issue in our society and that on a secular "sub human sub conscious level" that we all want to "outlive death".

That's why God created oceans.

There are 7 continents, and those seperated by ocean created distinct religions.

Is God basically saying for us to create doubt?

The real message of this question is D.O.U.B.T.

I am being driven mad, by speculation.

Why do smart people have doubts? Why do dumb people believe in "guaranteed" eternity, as compared to "likely" eternity?

Does ANYONE OUT THERE GET SCARED OUT OF THEIR MINDS about disexistance?

Please, if so, what medication do you take...

Answer 1

True, the confused are the smartest, while the dullest of us are satisfied with straight forward promises of salvation and eternal life. Those who look for something more are moving closer to God, but they're misunderstood, tormented and at times feel they are mad. Prophets are never favorite hometown boys.

Now, I wouldn't call the simple "salt of the earth" folks dumb. They're simple and ask for little more than honesty and guarantees. They demand a consistent inerrant unquestionable Word - a contract with no loopholes. Meat and potatoes. Look ya in the eye when they say hi! All or nothing. No room for gray.

Is God's message packaged in doubt? God gave us doubt in the ruins of the Tower of Babel. No speaka English? Hablo no!! And so on.....

Jesus throws us a shadow of a doubt in every parable, "that they might not know the truth"...? And at Eden....yes, Eden! Humanity's inaugural couple is warned about that one Tree they must not touch, but how about some advanced warning about a talking snake???

And now we are divided from our brethren by seven oceans. And confused by parables and talking snakes.....and Freewill.

More on that another time...

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Answer 2

I'm an agnostic (leading towards atheist). I am so disillusioned by religion with it's corruption and controlling, the TV evangelists asking for a $100 donation for a 25 cent prayer cloth. People embrace religion because they are conditioned to and they are scared of what would happen for not believing. Religion in it's earliest form was pagan. The worship of the sun and wind and earth. Not devil worship as most believe today (thank you catholic church). But this was twisted by some very smart people to force people to love and obey a single god to which only they could show you the way. And to obey and love this god means to make people wary and to behave and to pay their taxes and conform to the wishes of the establishment and to line the pockets of those who held power in the government and church (one in the same). I'm on a rant here...but on the question of doubt...If there is a God and that God gave us the the ability to reason, question and doubt, how can that God punish us for doing so? I won't go blindly following because my preacher says so. I need a sign from God himself. Why won't God do that?

Answer 3

those people who've significant different and young ones that died and those that have been given injury desire some privateness. They wont get it for awhile and interior the interim the survivors might desire to handle gaukers and human beings that make assumptions and so on.

Answer 4

If all the 18 and up adult students had their own guns like they should have been able to posses, it would be a non event, only one or two of them would have died before the rest took care of Cho. :)

Answer 5

Sometimes I wonder...If people had fully accepted the fact that dieing is an inevitability, then why is everyone so afraid of dying? Or better yet, whi ISN'T anyone afraid of dying??

Answer 6

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative. How do you determine your self. You discover what would determine your self to do that. The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.