Mortis
The Senator of Suffering & Minister of Misery
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If you're not religious and you believe that everything in this universe is by chance and not by design, I don't understand why that "chance" usually leans towards destruction, pain, misery, and chaos.
Things we humans concider as bad are more likely to happen to us then things we concider good. If everything is just by chance then the bad out stakes the good 1 million to 1. A seemingly small and insignificant thing can have the most life wrecking and destroying of outcomes.
Just a slip can leave you dead or paralysed, just a moment of unattentiveness can lead to you being in a devastating car wreck. It seems like happiness doesn't work that way, but we got enough misery to spare. You're more likely to develop cancer than win the lottery, and the lottery is the only example I can think of were a small action can lead to great happiness (and most of the time even that doesn't work out).
Why is it so difficult to build a card house but so incredibly easy to knock it down? I never understood this about life. A religious person can explain this as tests of God, but what does an atheistic worldview say about this apparent fallen state of being?
Things we humans concider as bad are more likely to happen to us then things we concider good. If everything is just by chance then the bad out stakes the good 1 million to 1. A seemingly small and insignificant thing can have the most life wrecking and destroying of outcomes.
Just a slip can leave you dead or paralysed, just a moment of unattentiveness can lead to you being in a devastating car wreck. It seems like happiness doesn't work that way, but we got enough misery to spare. You're more likely to develop cancer than win the lottery, and the lottery is the only example I can think of were a small action can lead to great happiness (and most of the time even that doesn't work out).
Why is it so difficult to build a card house but so incredibly easy to knock it down? I never understood this about life. A religious person can explain this as tests of God, but what does an atheistic worldview say about this apparent fallen state of being?
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