suffering

Every time I sit on the dunny to unburden myself, I contemplate the issue of God and gods… and by the time I am finished cleaning away the remnants, I am yet again irrefragably convinced that the whole delusion is a failure of human reasoning and a testament to our inability to fathom the extent...

I AM IN FAVOR OF TORTURE AS A FITTING PUNISHMENT FOR THOSE FOUND BEYOND A REASON ABLE DOUBT TO BE GUILTY OF THE MOST HEINOUS CRIMES! Before you jump out of your skin with outrage, let me present my arguments for this point of view. I realise that many/most of you will find much/everything wrong...

Theists have a habit of automatically invoking free will when faced with the question of human suffering. However it is obvious that there is a large amount of suffering that has natural causes and is not due to the abuse of free will. For example earthquakes, cyclones, disease etc. Now to...

I believe it is a fallacious argument to argue against the non-existance of, for one example, the christian god, with arguments like: "why do so many innocents suffer and die" or any variation on this. For the simple reason that IF the religion was correct (ignoring all the other paradoxes...

David Swidler suggested this might be the subject of a new thread as we discussed it here... I had said: " I know there is a lot of tap dancing around the idea that God causes suffering as opposed to ' letting it happen ', you know , free will and all that.. " To which David replied:

Suppose that there is a God, but that God doesn't think of people as being God's children. Given such a God, is there no problem of evil or suffering? Compared to a diseased squirrel, a human being might seem to have the mental capacities of a god. If a particular human being doesn't go to...

The claim is: if God is able but unwilling to relieve suffering of people, then God is not good. The assumption is that people are entitled to expect God to put in an effort for them. Take away that assumption. 1. Have you actually offered to do something that you can do and that God wants...

Do you suffer fools gladly? Don't be too quick to say no. First, it's a biographer's cliché; time and again we read of someone ". . . and he didn't suffer fools gladly." (The cliché seems to involve tacking the phrase onto the end of a sentence. Odd.) I've read this assertion in a biography of...

Over at sciforums.com, I'm involved in a thread about whether or not 'Life is Suffering'; more specifically, if there's anything we can do to fix this suffering. http://sciforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23454 I seem to be the only one there in favor of progress. Am I crazy? :) Any...