Lost my grandmother last year after a long battle with cancer, alzheimer's and a number of other issues. When she passed it was a mixture of joy and sadness. Joy because she was no longer in pain, reunited with loved ones that had already passed and with her Lord and Savior. Sadness because we won't see her again in this lifetime.
I suppose it's because we exist in the finite realm where time and space impact our existence that we feel "burden of time". Once we enter the infinite scope of eternity time will no longer be a factor and our perspectives will shift to something new....something transcendent.
Until then believers with faith in Christ strive to grow closer to God in moments of struggle, sadness and stress. As believers we aren't promised sunshine and rainbows all the time. In actuality we're promised a great deal of struggle. It's when the struggles come and you begin to perceive opportunities to grow closer to and learn from the one you claim as savior that things change and faith matures....with anything in this life it just takes time.
in life things "get better" for You when you step on other people heads, when they get worse for someone else, the competitor, when you beat them for ressources, jobs, partners of reproduction . When you win the struggle for survival. But for each winner there s always a loser, did you ever think of it? I guess you reassure yourself by thinking it was God will and that you deserved it better than them cause you re a bigger , purer believer...when in fact it's just cruel, cold, blind natural selection. You won cause you had what it took, and they didnt, so fuck them.
You can sugarcoat it all you want, intrinsically we re all brutal animals fighting for limited ressources who convince themselves they are the good ones and the other are the bad ones. The others think the same btw.
Faith is mind gymnastics, basically you give a meaning to things who have none fabricating nonsense to justify the fact you re going to kill them instead of being killed by them. As long as it works for you, this non sense makes more sense, reinforce itself. Self fulfilling prophecy. But do you ever think about the other people who lost when you won? No. You ignore them. Except if you have an interest in helping them. If you have none you simply ignore them and tell yourself "it was god will, all is well". No one was looking at it all from the sky, it's just an animal fighting another animal and there's no spectator. The one who adapts survive, the other one fails and disapear. Religion allows one to convince himself he is innocent and on the "right" side while the other was on the wrong side. We invented it to alleviate the weight of our responsability. He failed , died, well good riddance and good for me, it was "deserved".
Every believer , whatever his religion, self convince himself that some kind of god or justice granted him victory, but it's all bullshit. Some people are just stronger, better prepared to win the struggle for survival, while others are conditionned to fail cause they re weaker. Religion, spirituality is a mask that hides our true animal nature.
Look at bigro for example, he pretends to be a wise , kind humanist, while at the same time he injects steroids to impress and dominate other animals in his daily life. This is pure hypocrisy, complete bullshit.
