What's the last significant new idea or philosophy you heard about and thought was really interesting? (lemmy.world)

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I don't mean an application of technology. Or a specific fact. I'm interested in more big picture things.

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 8 months ago

This is what made me leave religion tbh. This notion right here.

"Why do bad things happen?"

Because God has a plan for us, and he needs us to go through this for his plan to work

"But... he's all powerful. He could change the plan and we could have the same outcome. He's infinite, which means there's infinite ways that he could achieve the same thing.... but we wouldn't suffer"

He's either all-good, which means he can't choose what happens and he just tries to do good - but that means he's not all powerful. Or he's all powerful, but then he is choosing not to do the good things.

So I landed on "If there's a god, then maybe he/she is just trying their best, and hey, that's okay, I'm just going to try my best too."

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