Making Sense Of Suffering.

[Theland]

Next Sunday, virtually the whole nation will turn to and pray to God in remembrance of the 100 year commemoration of the first mechanised slaughter World War 1.

It takes our God to comfort us and focus our attention on our folly of killing each other.

What do you think?

[kvalidir]

You and Nailit both needle one another incessantly, in pretty much equal measure. Never the twain and all that x

[Theland]

Go over my posts.
Have I made false accusations?
Have I been disrespectful?
Have I been insulting?
Please?

[kvalidir]

You frequently say that you feel Nailit is 'troubled' and then when people suggest similar about you you don't like it. Truth is we're all troubled, and if we're not there's something wrong with us :) x

[ummmm]

I'm not troubled.

[Mamyalynne]

I've always been worried about you ;-)


I'm mad as toast.

[Theland]

My wife troubles me.
She won't lend me her purse!

[ChillDoubt]

[kvalidir]

Stop beating about the bush and say what you really think chill :) x

[Theland]

How subtle!

[vulcan42]

Theland, the problem with you and all religious people is your logic or to be more realistic, your lack of it. You constantly tell us that God gave us the power of choice so when something goes wrong it's not Gods fault. If mankind, and it usually is mankind, is constantly starting wars, which we all agree is wrong, why would we then praise your God? Are we praising him because we were given the power of choice to start the war or praising him because he allows wars to start because he thinks it's a good thing? I think your assumption that millions will be praying is wrong, they will be remembering their loved ones who died far too young and it increasingly seems, for a lost cause. The act of remembrance doesn't require prayer.

[Jackdaw33]

The problem is that whenever you mention God it gives the anti-God squad an opportunity to spout forth. I am a member of an organisation where any discussion about religion or politics is strictly forbidden at our meetings. Perhaps that is the best solution.

[vetuste_ennemi]

No.

[emmie]

i won't be praying as i don't believe in God, but i will reflect quietly about the sacrifices made.

[waterboatman]

I will not be praying. I gave that up many years ago. I swill be remembering my brother who was killed in action in Aden in 1967. He was in the SAS.

[waterboatman]

p.s. I was serving in the Far East at the time.

[murraymints]

we will be remembering the hardship, suffering and loss which has affected so many over several conflicts, not just those fighting, but the families at home too....the pain is imaginable...some may pray to a God that this suffering stops and never happens again...I see no harm in that...we will all have different thoughts, memories, and feelings....they are all valid...Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori...... we shall remember them xx

[naomi24]

Suffering is an unavoidable feature of life, but there’s an irony between this OP and your previous question. Here you claim, quite falsely, that “Next Sunday, virtually the whole nation will turn to and pray to God” and that “It takes our God to comfort us…." – after asking others if it is “important to you to vehemently assert your beliefs….”

No Theland, vehemently asserting belief is important to you.

[murraymints]

unimaginable of course ^^

[Old_Geezer]

On the contrary, the coming together for a shared experience is what gives some comfort. Deities need not be involved, although some can contemplate theirs if it helps.

[rowanwitch]

Not praying to God but reflecting and accepting the sorrow that so many lives were wasted. Also knowing that life is precious. I will spare a special thought for all the women whose men did not return. They carried on raising another generation to meet death in the second World War. How they carried on I do not know.