Yes yes all right already I GET IT

[serinde]

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In their lust to prove there's no God, atheists
often invoke the existence of suffering. "What kind of deity," one asked
me, "allows a child in Darfur to starve to death after seeing soldiers kill his
mommy?" While I don't claim to have the authoritative answer to that
accusation, I think it's worthwhile to consider the possibility that suffering
is a gift God gives us in order to prod our evolution. On a personal level,
your longing to escape your suffering is a primal force in making you
smarter. On a collective level, nothing refines and ennobles us more than
our passion to keep others from suffering. For every dead child in Darfur,
100 people in other places on the planet have responded with a radical
commitment to create a world in which future Darfurs won't happen.
These are worthy ideas for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. You
will have a tremendous capacity to convert your old wounds, as well as
the old wounds of others, into brilliant opportunities.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Astrology and religion... two great tastes FOR ME TO POOP ON.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

"Future Darfurs" sounds like some kind of scifi anthropomorphic fetish....

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

I suggest Chinese food, so you can also have fortune cookies tell you that. They probably will, if the two buried under the pile of change (ha!) on my desk are any indication.

(But decent Chinese food, not the dodgy-yet-overpriced stuff I let myself get peer-pressured into having today.)

[fivetonsflax.livejournal.com]

I call bullshit on that radical activist to dead child ratio.

[briony530.livejournal.com]

Gee, got any non-cynical types on your f-list?

Whatever. Change happens. We can choose to grow in positive ways or not. You, I know, will always choose to do the former.

[shechameleon.livejournal.com]

Mmm, nothing like regurgitated cliches..."that which does not kill us makes us stronger", much?

Buck up, lil' camper....