If you believe that everything happens for a reason… what are some of the lessons we’re supposed to learn and how come certain situations we can’t seemed to let go?
For example, why are people born with certain disabilities whether its physical or mental?
Or why people have to struggle to make ends meet in third world countries?
2007-12-06 08:05:02 · 7 answers · asked by mitchchan 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Well that is a good question. Many people will say "God's plan" and be done with it. This problem is a mystery as a whole. But one thing is certain; we cannot change the past. Now we can speculate on individual problems.
Your first example was about people born with disabilities, that I would have to say is a test or obstacle meant for the parents. The child them self will know life ignorant of how the world would be if they were normal. Ignorance is bliss. They will have a much happier life then a normal person in an accident that had to live the rest of there life deformed knowing the true freedom they once had.
Your second was about people struggling to make ends meet in third world countries. this one is more a test of their society. They are ignorant of many of our comforts and find happiness in such things that we often overlook.
2007-12-06 08:32:29 · answer #1 · answered by Marcus M 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People born with disabilities are the result of genetic variation, the environment of the parents, and the factors of their conception, simple as that. People who struggle in third-world countries do so because that's where they were born and the status of those countries is such because of the choices of the people and the natural circumstances of that region.
2007-12-06 16:25:44 · answer #2 · answered by Gee Whizdom™ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Since we exist in a causal universe, everything does happen for a reason, but most of those reasons are completely out of our control and occur totally irrespective of our desires and well being. The universe isn't nice or fair. In fact, if you want to anthropomorphize it, the universe is sort of a heartless jerk.
2007-12-06 16:57:25 · answer #3 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reason is a faculty of man's consciousness. Nothing happens for a reason that man does not cause. On the other hand, we may find "reason" to accept what we cannot change, reason to change what we can, and finding order in the chaos is "the meaning" of "things that happen."
2007-12-06 18:03:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a problem with the benevolent God idea too.
2007-12-06 23:13:52 · answer #5 · answered by All hat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We each have a part and it is hard to do our part, if we are always caught up in all the other parts!
Peace and Blessings.....
2007-12-06 16:35:43 · answer #6 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi :o)
2007-12-06 16:31:15 · answer #7 · answered by pain_of_unhappiness 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋