Timewaster's Guide Archive

Isn't it extremely pessimistic to say that life as we know it is just an experiment, or even that we knew what our lives were going to be like before we chose them.  These two ideas are very difficult with the idea that Christ came to earth to save humanity.  Why would he even bother dying and going through what he did if we just came here to expreience the pain of life.  That in itself seems to suggest that Christ's suffering was for naught, which goes against Chrsitianity.  The second idea, that we knew of our life before we came to earth is also very difficult, because of how much pain some people have to go through.  I hate the idea that someone can spend their life looking for God through the greatest pains and difficulties life can offer, then because they were not a part of one minor religion of the world, that they didn't even encounter during their time on earth.  This idea that people know how their lives are going to be also suggests that people know the "stuff" that they have to go through before they are born.  That doesn;t make sense to me either, because of how much different people's lives are earth are.  In the United States it is easy for us not to see the pain that people have to go through on a regular basis.  I'm just curious what the response to these questions would be, because a lot of this stuff doesn;t make sense to me as a progressive catholic