I find some of the worldviews out there fascinating. I won't say that I'm drawn to them, but I find their particular approach to why things happen fascinating. We all want to know why the things that happen to us in life happen. We want to know and understand if there is some element of it that we can control, and if there are things out of our control, then who exactly is controlling them? And I truthfully find such views of this fascinating, because they point out that we humans really do want to make sense of things.
The thing that I have noticed is that a lot of these views may sound appealing, but may not necessarily be the most helpful. Let's say, for example, the worldview according to karma. Karma says that what you do has an impact on what happens to you. What goes around comes around. So, if you are a very nice person, then that kindness and niceness will be returned to you. Likewise, if you're a mean person, then mean things will happen to you.
Now, there does seem to be a rather large hole in this idea. If you are a typically good person, then what does it suggest if something bad happens to you? If you are a mean person, but good thing regularly come your way (likely because people are afraid of upsetting you), then how does karma explain that? It doesn't really have an answer.
There's another view out there that basically says that what happens, happens. The Muslim faith tends in this direction, saying that God will do what God will do, and there's nothing to be done about it. Basically, God could be good to you, or God could be bad to you, but it's not worth complaining about, because it just happens. But if that's the case, then why is it that you can work hard and change your circumstances, or on the other side of the coin, why can you be well off, but then be lazy and lose it all? If it's just supposed to happen, then is there any sense in actually trying to do something?
Is that the way the cookie crumbles? As you can see, there are some holes in these ideas. Tomorrow, I intend to bring this back to the Christian faith, which seems to actually have an answer to these matters, even if it's not always one that might think.
The thing that I have noticed is that a lot of these views may sound appealing, but may not necessarily be the most helpful. Let's say, for example, the worldview according to karma. Karma says that what you do has an impact on what happens to you. What goes around comes around. So, if you are a very nice person, then that kindness and niceness will be returned to you. Likewise, if you're a mean person, then mean things will happen to you.
Now, there does seem to be a rather large hole in this idea. If you are a typically good person, then what does it suggest if something bad happens to you? If you are a mean person, but good thing regularly come your way (likely because people are afraid of upsetting you), then how does karma explain that? It doesn't really have an answer.
There's another view out there that basically says that what happens, happens. The Muslim faith tends in this direction, saying that God will do what God will do, and there's nothing to be done about it. Basically, God could be good to you, or God could be bad to you, but it's not worth complaining about, because it just happens. But if that's the case, then why is it that you can work hard and change your circumstances, or on the other side of the coin, why can you be well off, but then be lazy and lose it all? If it's just supposed to happen, then is there any sense in actually trying to do something?
Is that the way the cookie crumbles? As you can see, there are some holes in these ideas. Tomorrow, I intend to bring this back to the Christian faith, which seems to actually have an answer to these matters, even if it's not always one that might think.
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