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Brian Kensel's avatar

Your closing comment is sadly appropriate; many ARE asking this very question in view of the Kerrville Texas tragedy

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Ryan Barry's avatar

Yes indeed. Very unfortunate situation. Leaves a lot of people wondering.

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Suzy Olsen's avatar

Catholics believe that there is a cosmic and supernatural and unseen battle going on between light and dark. Earth is its battleground. If you believe in God, you believe that the light will overcome the darkness. In fact, the Bible says he already has; we are stuck behind enemy lines. There is still much work to do. And in giving us free will, God has given us the dignity to fight and be a part of our own rescue. Thank you Ryan for writing about spirituality and religion for these times!

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Ryan Barry's avatar

Thank you for the insight, Mrs. Olsen! That makes a lot of sense in the frame of what I understand already--and adds some context to what I'm working to understand about Christian theology. Hope you guys are doing well!

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🌈🌈 The Educational Crisis's avatar

To teach you.

God allows suffering to teach you. Without Suffering, you cannot measure anything at all. "Suffering" is your Measuring of Boundaries and limits so you know just "how far you will go" before you learn "This is Poison."

You have to have Free Will to preserve the 2nd Ethic or everything Humans do would be Rape, which creates Kakía (Virus / Cell Apoptosis). So, Humans have Free Will to Learn in their own time. Suffering is in direct ratio to how much a Human refuses to Learn.

The sooner you learn to learn, the sooner the suffering stops and the more the Human realizes they should use Suffering to "Micro-dose" their Poison Metrics so they can Build up Immunity to everything.

It's how you get Immortality. Learning boosts your Immune System. It's called "Self-Tolerance."

Humans are born without a working Immune System. You have to be your Own Immune System before it is automated. You need Dialectical Compression Learning. Humans have one job on this planet : To Master Nourish To Grow, which is Learning. And most of them don't it. So, the Suffering increases. Learning ends the Suffering and uses it for your Immune System.

Humans are supposed to be Mastering "What is Human?" which is what Learning is. Stop pondering God Psychology and focus instead on Human Psychology.

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