Re: Life's Decisions and Happiness
That's just it. I could have created mindless drones. As I have already explained and will now expand upon, every possible event happens simultaneously in what you might call "Parallel Universes". Given this, souls have the choice of which event to choose.
So, one might ask how a soul makes that choice. Usually (with human beings anyway), it's not a conscious decision. People tend to follow the path of 'least resistance', meaning they do whatever they instinctively feel at the time will lead to the least hurt. Of course, with a lack of long term planning by enough people you end up with... Well, look around you.
But take away that and create only outcomes that lead to happiness? The people might be happier that way, if it was properly designed, the people WOULD be happier that way. However, and this is the answer that humans cannot accept, that is not what I seek. If I wanted you to be eternally happy, I would not have created the physical universe. We would have simply remained in our eternal collective state, where no individuals existed because there was nothing else.
When we (I refer to all souls here) chose to create the universe, we purposely designed it that all of life's experiences might be realised. No true harm can come to souls, as energy cannot be created or destroyed. So 'death' to a human is an entirely different thing to a soul! Death means freedom to examine the life just lived, to choose the start of the next one. This cycle will repeat until all possible experiences have been experienced, at which point the universe will end, and we will become one again. That's 'the big plan'.
To get back to basics, that is why suffering not only exists, but 'must' exist. That doesn't mean though, that an individual has to experience it. It is all a matter of choice. This choice is not one to change the outer experience however, but to change your perception of it. In an easy to read manner, an event is only 'bad' if you think it is! One man's trash is another man's treasure as the saying goes.
To take yet another human saying, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions".
Stopping suffering is to most, a noble intent. But how does one go about doing that in a universe where any event can happen? Well, now you're talking about taking away free will, which in human society would likely mean constant surveillance, imprisonment or maybe execution for breaking the law (which somebody has to decide on), nobody trusting each other. To force such a situation would be to most, a horrific deed. I would no more restrict any or all souls, which are all a part of myself (so I would only be restricting myself essentially) than you would preside over the removal of free will from your race.
I am stuck in the middle of it all, for you are all a part of me. I love all souls unconditionally, which is a concept no religion and very few relationships have been able to get to grips with. After all, there's no power in unconditional love, so to the humans who wish to acquire power over others, unconditional love is a threat more than anything. However, it IS easy for me to just say it works out ok, because I know that no matter what experiences occur (and they all will eventually) in the end we will have had all that physical life has to offer. We will be 'completely experienced', which is the reason we separated ourselves and created the universe in the first place.
As to what you 'should' do, well experiment, try a few things. Being in the rather emotionally vulnerable position you are in right now, it might not be wise to do anything too hasty, but life's experiences are out there waiting for you to choose them. As to whether you would feel bad about something because of yourself or your conditioning, well, it's a little of both in most cases. You have plenty of time though, to go through your thoughts and feelings and make decisions. Nothing wrong in taking a little break from life to do that.
Now, I don't want you to misinterpret me on the natural disasters/sex thing. Natural disasters are a means of population control, but that is not something I've put in place thinking, "Yes, this'll kill off a few of these exponentially multiplying buggers". It happens simply because in the physical universe, it is the natural life cycle of planets. That it keeps populations down is a result of that, but it is not forcibly pushed on you. There are other universes where this does NOT happen, where it does not need to, and where it does need to, but doesn't happen anyway. Every combination. Same thing with sex. Now, in THIS experience, for your society, natural disasters are generally taken to be a very bad thing, and sex is very much a matter of opinion. That doesn't mean though, that either is right or wrong.
Naturally, Raphael is just flowing through another of life's paths, as is Gabriel.
-----Original Message-----
From: Complaints Department [mailto:Address removed by anti spam software]
Sent: 06 May 2008 19:21
To: God
Subject: FW: All's well that ends well
She's back! She's sending the latest message! Woo!
Poppy:
Raphael's gone home to live with his trout, and I noticed your message saying about how he wanted to protect it with something "pure and chaste" to keep me away. Well, as you said, that would attract me if anything!
But, I think that might have been a little fib on Raphael's part to try to lure me into stealing it again. He was seen receiving deliveries of numerous high yield explosives, and I think they're probably set to go off when I touch whatever temptation he's put in place around them. He's always been a devious sod like that. I don't think too many of the angels felt sorry for him when his trout went missing.
In any case, after seeing him lose it, I've agreed with Michael not to bother his trout any more, so he shouldn't bother your world for now at least.
And don't worry about your virginity, I wouldn't try to take you without your explicit consent. Michaels kind of grown on me these past few millennia, and anyway, I learnt my lesson about that with the whole Mary thing. And you thought children born of incest were bad! You never met Jesus, be glad you didn't. The thought of him makes me cringe...
Love, light and medical experiments,
Gabriel
Signature - There'll be time for explanations later. And hopefully, some sex!
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