Reply #19: I agree . I think that many need to believe that everything happens for a [View All]

[Lorien]

reason because they can't deal with uncertainty, or the possibility that their lives aren't truly meaningful or significant.Hundreds of millions are born, live lives of quiet desperation, then die without having any lasting impact on the people around them. What is the meaning behind the horrors that have happened to the people of Darfur? Why was our family friend Henry captured by the Nazis when he was seven years old? What divine plan was behind the Nazis murder of Henry's entire family? Henry was freed and brought to America, but he has suffered from severe bouts of depression ever since. He was never able to marry and have a family of his own-and now he's in his 70s. Why was it important that a human being suffer for nearly 70 years? Where's the reasoning behind it all? I don't see it. Maybe sometimes shit just happens.