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Well Anonymous, that's just the way of the universe. It's uncaring by default -- if God's real and has a nature, he must be evil, looking at all of the killing, torturing, rape... the illness and aging... and all the rest of the simply unpleasant changes in the world. The way of life, is that life goes on by killing and eating other life.
The first "noble truth" of Buddha:
>There is dukkha (stress, suffering,
>dissatisfaction). Birth, aging, and death are
>dukkha. Sorrow, lamentation, death, and
>despair are dukkha. Separation from what's
>beloved and association with what's unbeloved
>is dukkha. Not getting what one wants is
>dukkha.
People can go from being madly in love to being complete strangers in just a day.
Life is unpleasant, but what's amazing is that people can still find limited happiness in this strange place. I try to live happily in part to rebel against the natural order of things, and because it just feels good to be happy...
Find meaning, create it, or purge your need for meaning. That's the only way to progress in life past all of the bewilderment and torment that comes when you start to see what's happening behind the curtain.
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