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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Thanks to BB from Idaho who recommended this book by Harold Kushner, I would also recommend it to anyone who questions why the world is how it is, or why pray, or is God all-powerful? The one part that stood out for me was when he spoke of the laws of nature and how can good people for example be saved if they fell out of a window when gravity is a force that makes everyone fall down, and gravity has no morals to distinguish between a good person or a bad person from hitting the ground and getting hurt. Therefore, there is simply a randomness where sometimes nature hurts the good and sometimes the bad. From that idea, I further decided that miraculous things that cure and save people is also random. So our prayers asking for miracles are not a bad thing, but we cannot think that saying certain words a certain way will change nature's course, nature changes nature's course sometimes. I still hope that nature saves Emily.
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A is A.
Meaning that facts are facts, that things are what they are – and the task of man’s consciousness is to perceive reality not to create or invent it. This metaphysics is axiomatic and so it is contained in all knowledge and so presupposed in any attempt to deny it.
Don't take this personally Soapster but you would suck at being a spiritual advisor.
I had this thought a few days ago. As I've been asking at my own blog for quite some time now why are the few miracles that do take place so selectively done by God or to put it another way why are those few who are saved somehow more special than the vast crowd who are not cured? Being a Catholic I came up with this since I've been looking for a common thread or missing key and it's this. Now my theory since it's still at the theory stage is that Mary is the key. Christ so reveres His own mother that He can deny her nothing, he won't refuse her requests. Personally I've never been big on praying to the saints but I have always prayed to Mary, obviously Mary and Jesus have a very special relationship and in the Church itself you have your theologians, maybe Benedict is among them who would like to make official some type of dogma of Mary being the mediatrix of all graces, the co-redemptrix. Since if everything good that comes from God flows through Mary first then it would make sense to pray to her first. Just the way I was raised to see something beyond a brick wall is a brick wall or an atom is an atom.
You're quite right about that Beth.
There indeed is a lot we don't understand in the universe and stuff we don't even know we don't know, so while A = A may be true sometimes can change inexplicably.
As for praying to Mary, Z, all I can say is that my mom has a great devotion to Mary, and I would bet for all the cancer cases I told about, she probably asked Mary to intercede for these kids, including Emily, and well the prayers for the other two kids didn't bring about a miracle. But I wish your theory could be true.
People when they pray pray to all sorts of people scattering their prayers around so it's hard to nail it down but anyway how is she doing?
No official update on her health from her family, just a friend who visited yesterday said she looked tired but otherwise okay. She has always been the kind of kid who doesn't sulk around, always cheerful, never complaining, it doesn't surprise me that she is not going to let anything keep her down as long as she can help it.
"...so while A = A may be true sometimes can change inexplicably."
Explain how this is true. Simply because you didn't know that something existing existed doesn't negate the fact that it exists. The fact that it exists hasn't changed. The only thing that has changed is your ability to realize its existence.
If Z owns a red Camaro he owns a red Camaro. A is A in this context.
Whether you happen to know he owns a red Camaro is irrelevant to its existence because the fact is that it is there existing.
My comment was in regards to someone who has cancer and then doesn't, there are documented cases.
Our phone conversation last night Beth inspired me to do a blog about cancer today since I won't be online for the next 3 days.
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