Well "Life" is also a bowl of cherries! For those who feel punished it's the pits! I think the feeling is anthropmorphic also... A feeling of punishment is implicit of a feeling of guilt! "Why am I being punished?" "Well you must be guilty of something!"
On Mar 17, 4:08 pm, Binah Hochma <[email protected]> wrote: > Allen, > why do you think we seem to need to assign punishment to everything? Your > friend is not they only one who thinks G-d is punishing us for everything > under the sun. > The need to feel punished must fall into human nature along with us fighting > our human nature. > "Life" is a magazine > "Life" is a cereal > "Life" is a box of chocolates > I prefer chocolates > We could have the start of a song here > > Binah > > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Ash <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Life" is also a cereal. > > > I recently tried to convince someone that natural disasters were not a > > punishment from her God for those who do not believe. It didn't go too well > > and turned into an angry lecture on my part. Basically substitute > > "scripture" for "life" in a crash course of anthropology and spirituality, > > that's what it was. Why do I feel guilty?.. If it shakes her faith and hope > > I'll be damned, if she reflects and understands the larger reality it will > > strengthen. Sometimes to what seems at first an academic matter, with > > empathy and understanding, we find a great responsibility in the actions we > > take. > > > Risk. Isn't there a song about life being a poker game?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
