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Inlägg #1: Postat: 2002-09-06 16:27:00
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Frederik |
It’s like the situation Albert Camus described in ‘La peste’, when an atheist doctor and a priest had to witness the suffering and death of an innocent child due to the plague. There is no justification we can find for such a terrible absurdity, and such a situation shows more than any other that there is no proof to be found for faith. It is and remains a personal choice.
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Inlägg #2: Postat: 2002-09-06 16:27:00
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Frederik |
Maybe there is some purpose behind it? Maybe, as C.S.Lewis said, our questioning sounds to God like the questions of a little child asking ‘What color does a minute have? Do flowers dream when they sleep?’ When his beloved wife died at a young age, Lewis himself was faced with questions about the purpose behind the apparent meaninglessness of suffering and death.
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Inlägg #3: Postat: 2002-09-06 16:28:00
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Frederik |
In ‘A Grief Observed’ he wrote, "When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of No answer. It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but in waiving the question. Like, Peace, Child; you dont understand." Mind-tricks to soothe one’s suffering? I doubt it. It takes courage to believe in love when faced with hatred. It’s much easier to give up and become a cynic.
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Inlägg #4: Postat: 2002-09-06 16:28:00
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Frederik |
There’s not much I can tell you, really. Perhaps only that whatever you choose to do or believe, always remember to keep on loving. When it comes down to it that’s all we really have, and in itself it’s way more than all the other things the world can offer us combined.
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Inlägg #5: Postat: 2002-09-06 16:29:00
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Frederik |
Now I really wish I were better in writing Swedish... Anyway, I hope you understand what I wrote
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Inlägg #6: Postat: 2002-09-06 18:07:00
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Angelica |
Yes I understood what you wrote. And maybe we will all get our answers after this life if there are such a thing!
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Inlägg #7: Postat: 2002-09-07 04:27:00
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solveig |
När man tycker att det mesta går emot är det lätt att inte se annat än alla olyckor man drabbas av. Nu är mänskan lyckligtvis funtad med förmågan att kunna förtränga och jag ska säga dej att det hjälper oerhört att glömma alla motgångar om man konsekvent fokuserar sig på det goda man också har fått! Att odla det goda, som barnen, allt det vackra man ser, det man fått nästan gratis så växer det över och gömmer och övervinner! Humor tar udden av det onda, tom galghumor. Kram på dig!
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Inlägg #8: Postat: 2002-09-09 14:53:00
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Frederik |
Angelica, Im not sure whether ... I quite like how someone once put itCarolyn Gratton, I believe, a US theologian: life is one big question, and the way we live and love, what we do or dont do, feel or think is our own answer to it. So what matters for now is not the question whether theres life after death theres time to figure that one out when we die, but whether theres live *before* death, so to speak.
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Inlägg #9: Postat: 2002-09-09 14:54:00
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Frederik |
...seems like I forgot to finish a sentence there. Anyway, I wanted to say something in the sense of I dont know whether I agree.
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Inlägg #10: Postat: 2002-09-09 14:59:00
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Frederik |
I fully agree with solveig, by the way. Always look on the bright side of life, eh? ...and everyone remember to take only one cross. :
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