Reply #43: I've had this same thought, quite honestly. [View All]

[InvisibleTouch]

It's intermixed with the memory of my outrage and disbelief at what happened in 2000, and how I felt that we'd taken a very warped wrong turn in the course of history. In a sense, I will never "get over it." But time provides some perspective. I can compare it to terrible things that happened in my own life, which, when looking back on them years or decades later, brought me to a place I wouldn't otherwise have been, gave me an insight I wouldn't otherwise have. I'm in such a place right now. In parallel with the darkness that we plunged into at the start of the new millennium, my own life plunged into a darkness and hopelessness and ineffective struggle, where sometimes it was all I could do to survive from day to day. I've asked myself, why was it necessary to go through that? Couldn't I have learned that same lesson with less waste of years and energy? There seems to be no point. But just lately I've been "rising from the dead" and starting to gain a foothold again, and it seems that there was a vital lesson, an experience I needed in order to move into my chosen future. Sorry to bring in a personal account, given that it means nothing to anyone other than myself, but I just see the glaring similarity.

No one will deny that terrible things have happened as a direct result of the 2000 election theft. Since we can't go back in time, change the course of events, and run the experiment again, we don't really know how our personal and collective world might have been better or worse with a different outcome. But I think your concept has a lot of merit, and like I said, I've toyed with it myself. Maybe with all the suffering, it is as it is for a "reason" - not a universal reason, but a personal one.

I don't believe in a personal "god" who directs events toward some intended outcome - but I do believe in a Universal "intelligence" as a creative force of some kind. I don't think it "wants" particular things, but I think there's a striving toward life and joy and growth and creativity, and an aversion to malice and senseless suffering. And given that the Universe has existed for about 15 billion years, it must take a very long view, figuratively speaking.

Thanks for sharing your perspective.