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bkrluffy t1_jby69b1 wrote

Lost me at ‘divine’. Sometimes things go bad.

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SandyBouattick t1_jbyyojl wrote

I can't stand how bad things aren't caused by divine power, but good things always are. All the people pulling survivors out of the rubble of the earthquake in Turkey were praising God for each survivor, but nobody was asking why God allowed a million others to die horribly in terror.

Things do work out sometimes, and we need to try to keep our chins up and hope for and work toward better days. You don't need divine intervention to do those things.

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Aldurnamiyanrandvora t1_jbzlpm5 wrote

For some people it's a coping mechanism, and I understand and respect that. But as usual… it's the instance that their way of dealing with things must be spread and be the 'normal'. The insistence on letting their way of life become yours. The evangelicalism.

Which is such a shame, because I've seen people who struggle really hard find their greatest strength in religion. But the taste is kind of soured for the rest of us.

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aesu t1_jbzv05p wrote

Theres a reason people living basically anywhere but first world environments post penicillin,. Almost entirely believe ING of. The alternative, that everyone you love and work so hard to protect can just be extinguished, for all eternity, for absolutely no good reason, at any moment, is not really compatible with just going about your life. It's highly demotivating, at the least.

We can manage without God because we've built such a. Technologically advanced environment that we can generally expect for us and our children and loved ones to live to a heap to h old age.

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SandyBouattick t1_jc01tav wrote

Eh. The US is still very religious. Try running for president as an atheist.

I completely understand how it can be a coping mechanism, but that only works if you believe it. If you stop to think why God would allow millions to die horribly while saving a select few, or why he allows suffering at all, or how he could be omnipotent while we also have free will, or which God is the real God, etc., then believing in it enough to actually draw any peace from that belief is pretty tough.

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crujones33 t1_jbyg85r wrote

Yeah, I don’t know what that means either.

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ErraticDragon t1_jc0bst7 wrote

I don't think it means anything.

It makes me wonder if it's a bot. "divine right order" sounds like it could have been the output of a thesaurus-izing process to avoid automatic detection. (Or maybe a chain of automatic translations?)

Plus the two periods at the end, which is (for some reason) a hallmark of the Comment-stealing bots.

Plus the fact that OP is a 7-month old account who has been posting like it's their job and has 500k link karma.

Plus the fact that their oldest post is only 4 months old (not 7), indicating that the account may have been "aged" before use.

It's not proof, but I'm suspicious.

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rattlemebones t1_jbzkv6h wrote

I want to start a drinking game where I take a shot every time the crazy chicks on my Facebook post "divine"

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aesu t1_jbzug0b wrote

Don't worry, t's all part of the plan of the eight dimensional 12 year old playing this game of Sims instead of doing his homework.

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aphrodisiactoez t1_jbyo8rr wrote

Thats part of the divine order

What would be the point if we just like won all the time

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YourMildestDreams t1_jc04yn5 wrote

What about children who get raped? What lesson did your god want them to learn? And what about animals who die horribly in wildfires? Wildfires are natural, so why is there so much needless suffering? Your "divine order" doesn't seem very fairly ordered.

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aphrodisiactoez t1_jc05eex wrote

It isnt fairly ordered

People get mad but life isnt always fair.

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WifiWaifo t1_jc0akhb wrote

Really? You want to tell all the survivors of sexual assault that life just isn't fair? You'd do that?

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aphrodisiactoez t1_jc0ctmy wrote

Yes.

I'd tell them it isnt fucking fair or right what happened to any of them. And then let them say what they think because that is their right and saying life is fair is stupid.

It's ups and downs. Not everyone goes thru the same hardships and awful things in life but it's our job as fellow humans to respect stand up for and be there for the people that have been disrespected, hurt, and traumatized by life.

I am a survivor of sexual assault. You think life is fair?

I dont understand the hostility from this thread everyone is acting like im on a soap box and yet it just seems like you're drawing conclusions instead of trying to take the positive outlook away from what i said.

Kind of disgusting how the hivemind on this app can be sometimes

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