have you ever wondered if its ever possible to live in a world without suffering,crimes,killing,injustice,fear
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OK, I'll bite...\n\nPsalm 37:10,11, 29 - "And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more; And you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be. But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace... The righteous themselves will possess the earth, And they will reside forever upon it."\nMatthew 5:5 - "Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth."\nIsaiah 9:6,7 - "There has been a child born to us, there has been a son given to us; and the princely rule will come to be upon his shoulder. And his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. To the abundance of the princely rule and to peace there will be no end... in order to establish it firmly and to sustain it by means of justice and by means of righteousness, from now on and to time indefinite."
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From previous answers it seems to me that ppl enjoy the conditions of the world today, but it would be like the Bible says that it will be, there would be no crime no violence, there would be love among mankind I mean true love not what they call love.There would be no hunger or poverty, no misery there would be respect for everyone no racial preduisce,no lying no cheating on their spouses, no abandoned children,or animals, , noone would need to lockup their house or car,there would be no roberies,no need for insurance, no death no pain, no sickness, no hatred, people would work together in harmony, and acomplish much more toward the good of the world rather than to the detrement of the world no wars no fighting no bombing, nomarriage breakups, and no police necessary or doctors hospitals etc. and the world would be a better place for all! I'm sure I have probably left something out, but I'm not perfect, that's one,  perfection would exist in the world too.
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in a word no, but on the other hand u learn to be without something and i am sure most people would learn to live withoout it \n\nbut it would kill me lol
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There's a good majority, Mixed with the created hormonal emotions from the processed food we eat, of humans that  define their reality in pain and suffering. They can't ever be happy. And their thoughts and Ideas, which are quite subjective, of what a perfect world should be, is always wanting to be put into effect. Like Hitler. His perfect world consisted of only blonde-haired blue-eyed germans. He was also beaten severly as a child, and i'm guessing a bit repressed. There are a lot of factors that go into it. Fear leads to anger. anger leads to hate. hate to suffering. It's true. Perphaps the key to fear is reverse paranoia. Instead of everyone expecting everyone to do wrong unto them, perhaps if they expected only the best from them. It's my personal experience that thoughts, whatever they may be, good or bad in perception, that they'll come to life and be seen most by the mind of that who thinks most about it. Your brain has a way of blocking out things it sees regularly from your memory. Only things that are of perceived importance, (things being thought of often) stay in memory, or in notice, on sight. Awareness is created by change. Things that are normal occurances always blend in. Therefore if you make a note of thinking most of good positive things, you'll find that you'll become a good positive person in essence. Likewise if you define your reality through narrowminded beliefs and generalizations, and only feel reality though existance in pain, always paranoid around those whom you don't know personally, then yes, you'll become old from the stress, twisted, maladjusted, and another force generating more negative energy for the world to pick up. Good begets good. Evil begets evil. If the world is to have full and thorough peace within it. There's going to have to be a LOT of accepting going on. Personally, I don't believe that'd be very possible due to the very natures of certain personalities. I believe everything must balance. There is no all good or all evil. Good wouldn't be good without evil. People cannot live without killing and consuming another live being or object. Whether it be plant or animal, the world was destined to always have some form of evil or another in it. I believe it's just the balance of society and of the universe. Otherwise, it'd just be our ego's driven by emotions telling us that death and dying and killing is bad or wrong. Our emotions tell us that, but universally, you'll notice the universe completely indifferent to all emotion. Perphaps just a mechanism to keep us alive, just like lust is a mechanism to keep us reproducing. If it wasn't for our minds ability to believe anything and to perceive purpose, i think we'd all go insane for being like puppets in the grand scale scheme of things, being strong along by our emotions and feelings towards certain things, embedded in our genetics and brains to make it all but most difficult to do anything but what the brains automated reaction had in mind. All in all, stepping out of human persona, and perception of derived purpose, in the grand scheme of things, without human aspect of good or evil, one could possibly say everything is perfect as is. But somewhere somehow, perphaps this is just a good form of entertainment to another entity larger than ourselves, or perphaps our perceptions. The beat goes on da-da-doom-da-doom-da-da. It's going to continue whether we like it or not, so we may as well know our roles and shut our mouths. That's my 2 cents.
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Indeed, I agree with the view that pain is not intended as a punishment, but as a mere defense mechanism against natural dangers and death. These defense mechanisms are what help animals, including us humans, to survive in the world, by forcing us to stay away of behaviours, things or places that may harm us and cause our death.\nI don't think this is any kind of proof, not in favour of the existance of a God, nor against it. The only things that can be actually and empirically proved are those that belong to the realm of science and the physical world, and religious beliefs don't fall into that category.\nReligion is matter of reason, but also one of faith, as it aims to find an explanation to questions that mankind will never be able to answer through empirical or scientific methods. (Such as "Why do we exist?", "What's the purpose of life?", "When will our plane of existance end, if it ever does?")\n\nPersonally, as a Naturalistic Pantheist, I believe we should just wonder at how complex and beautifully crafted our world and existance are, the most perfect and intelligent creations, of whose perfection we can only grasp but a minimum fraction, and not worry with methaphysical questions that we will never be able to answer for sure.\nAll we know for sure is what we can see - How wonderfully composed our universe is, from gigantic planets to microscopic quarks, and how complex and puzzling human life is.\nWe should enjoy life and the gift of counciousness, and rejoice with what we have, trying to trascend in eternity by making this world better with our actions and by preserving it for our own subsistence and those of our children, instead of worrying or repressing ourselves with metaphysical questions that we won't be able to answer in our entire human existance.\n\nVery good question, by the way.
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Yes.  I would only hope that after living this life with whatever each of us experiences (good, bad, ugly), that life after death would be there for all of us and it would be glorious as God had intended for it to be.  There will be no hurt, no pain, no suffering, (no intolerable rude people :) ). There would be peace throughout and within. We may have the choice to return (reincarnate) and try again, as some say.  We may see past loved ones again.  I for one miss my dogs and my  friends & family members who have passed.
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I am asked this question often because my life has been filled with pain and sorrow, sickness, accidents, violence from others, loss of loved ones, and enough sadness to fill half a dozen peoples lives in sorrow.\n\nBut, I always answer, yes, yes yes.... I would do the whole thing over if I had to. \n\nAnd here's why:\n\nIf I were to change one second of my life, that very second could be the one that affected someone very special in my heart.\n\nIt could be the very second that affected someone I have merely brushed beside as well. Like the child I snatched up and stopped from choking on a boiled sweet, back in 1966, when her mum panicked in a bus terminal and I was the only one on hand, just another young mum of twenty-one with three children of her own. (Five by the time I was twenty-four) \n\nNo one else knew I saved that child, but if I wasn't me, I couldn't have done it. And there have been other similar incidents throughout my life. \n\nSo if I changed my life, made it 'better' for myself, then either something that I did, or refrained from doing, would not have been done, or refrained from by someone else, and could be detrimental now, to another's life. \n\nWe cannot change what has been, just because of our personal sorrows, we must not wish to change what was, even if we could, or we could destroy someone else's tomorrows. \n\nAll of us have small experiences, and some big ones as well, that have touched the lives of others, even you are special in this way. Just think, who might just be very disadvantaged now, if you were not the very person, with the very life you live, that you are today? \n\nAnd despite our frequent ups and downs, I wouldn't change a thing anyway, because my children wouldn't be the people that they are. \n\nYes, my idea of who and what, and how my childen should be, might be right for me, but completely wrong for them. so I  wouldn't change a thing. Even if I moan and offer unwanted advice, more often than I should:-(\n\nI've learned long ago to accept the person that I am and the deck God dealt me, since I consider life to be a training ground, for something far, far better. \n\nAnd I wouldn't even change the fact that I have daily pain from arthritis, because through it, I have learned to understand people who suffer more.
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If the murdered person was an abuser, or murderer themselves, yes. Ordinary people no, can they not be the people they are, live the way they desire without being killed by a psyco?
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Hard to answer specifics when there aren't any - but life is ALWAYS worth living! No matter how bad things are, they always get better; even when things are SO bad that you can't imagine how they can possibly improve - they do. Trust me I know of what I speak.\nTry to think back to some incident earlier in your life that you thought was the end of the world - you got through it - and it doesn't seem half so dreadful now, does it? Whatever you are going through now - just persist and you WILL emerge the other side stronger, wiser and ready to face lifes other challenges.\nI wish you all the very best and hope you can bring yourself to believe what I say, even if you can't believe me now - trust me and you'll see I'm right! :o)
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Doesn't sound just, does it?  Not that eternal suffering would be a just punishment for anyone, however good or evil they might be.
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Yes, It is possible to someday have a "New World Order."  I mean this in the most positive way.  It will take time and some revolutionary type of thinking however.  I have traveled all over the world and I have found that we have more in common with people of the world than we have differences.  People want the same things--good health, happiness, economic opportunity, to raise a family, hope and just governance.  We are closer than many will lead us to believe. It will begin with a vision of common grounds regarding shared values and the continuous denouncing of evil and evil rhetoric.  Certainly, there is going to be hatred and contempt, but we cannot let a small minority of "Terrorists" threaten our very existence.  People are basically good and will choice good over evil once their primal needs are satisfied.  The problem with a world society is one of fairness to all people and sectors of the world.  This becomes a major obstacle to world peace and is probably the one thing that can prevent the evolution of governance to that level.  That notwithstanding--doesn't it sound a lot better to visualize world peace than to live in a world full of hatred and violence?  And a world in which we are united against those who create chaos.  I could envision a day when we are governed by a board of our peers that are responsible for ensuring just and competent governance.
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I do experience true joy and peace...every day of my life. \n\nIt is your judgement that I live a lifestyle of immorality and darkness. It is my judgement that you live a life full of fear and ignorance. Who can say who is truly right? No one. That is a question that we can only answer for ourselves. \n\nI experience true joy and peace because I allow myself to simply be. I am a lesbian, a sister, a daughter, a student, a friend, a partner...I am many things and I allow myself to experience them to the fullest. I do not find myself full of immorality and darkness because I experience real and meaningful love...and isn't love the opposite of darkness?\n\nI appreciate the fact that you asked your question in this fashion. You were not derogatory or hateful. Thank you for that. I only wish you could accept this...that your god, my god (or my version, I guess...we all have  different version) would not creat something that wasn't good, wasn't needful for this world. Think about that for a minute. \n\nBlessed be
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hmmm:) yes...\nand there is "before life", too...!!!\nwhy do you ask?\nall of us who may be Afraid to DIE...are certainly afraid of LIVING!!!!\nThere really is Only ONE thing that Really matters---in my opinion---Is NOW!!!\nForgive yourself for yesterday---Look Forward to Tomorrow...and!!!\nENjoy  TODAY...NOW:)
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There are known benefits to meditation in which one can experience all those things without ingesting drugs but the fact is to attain something as never-ending bliss is not only impossible in this life, it is not even desirable. How would you know you are in bliss if you never experienced suffering? A person who is happy all the time has no compassion for someone who is sad. Life is a series of highs and lows much like the waves of the ocean. The best way to experience life to the fullest is to accept the good with the bad equally and don't take it all personal.
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I would.  I would like the chance to do this again.  Living has its struggles and its joys and I would love to experience the joys all over again. (knowing the struggles come with it) I would also like to do again what I couldn't do now.  There are so many things here on earth that one can do and see and to have the opportunity to do more, I would.
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Yes...\n\nWe find in nature things that are possible to be and not to be, since they are found to be generated, and to corrupt, and consequently, they are possible to be and not to be. But it is impossible for these always to exist, for that which is possible not to be at some time is not. Therefore, if everything is possible not to be, then at one time there could have been nothing in existence. Now if this were true, even now there would be nothing in existence, because that which does not exist only begins to exist by something already existing. Therefore, if at one time nothing was in existence, it would have been impossible for anything to have begun to exist; and thus even now nothing would be in existence--which is absurd. Therefore, not all beings are merely possible, but there must exist something the existence of which is necessary. But every necessary thing either has its necessity caused by another, or not. Now it is impossible to go on to infinity in necessary things which have their necessity caused by another, as has been already proved in regard to efficient causes. Therefore we cannot but postulate the existence of some being having of itself its own necessity, and not receiving it from another, but rather causing in others their necessity. This all men speak of as God.
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i dont really have an answer to your question, i just wanted to say that liked the question. it makes us think about all we could have in life if we just werent afraid...