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It's hard to look at it as a whole. Philosophy, science, religion, and even art try, and using their own scale, seem to succeed in some cases. I'm not saying that they don't. I'm not saying that I can. But I try.
Religion offers the idea of balance in people, society, through something we can't see. The afterlife, heaven, hell, karma, reincarnation... if something bad happens to someone good, that person when they die, will be rewarded, or even in life, later down the road, balance will be restored. The same for the good happening to the bad, or the bad being punished for what they do and think. It also offers the idea of an invisible web of events, unseen clockwork, things set in motion so that humanity as a whole will benefit. Philosophy even touches on that, as well as defining what or who is good and bad, and even removing those factors from the equation altogether. Science, behavioral and even natural, offers us cause and effect, the motivations behind the actions, and even remedy for unjust, or simply unfortunate events, usually through changing the environment, controlling the factors that lead to these occurences.
Though I would like to, when I am honest with how I feel about what I see, I don't believe in religious or agree with philosophical explanations for why life, the good and bad parts of it, happen when and to whom they do, and science doesn't offer balance, it only gives us explanations as to what happened, and what should be done to prevent it from happening again.
I think that Life simply happens, without balance. The bad will happen to the good, and good will happen to the bad, and the good will happen to the good, and to the bad, the bad. This is what I see. The events in life are impacted by so many variables, that it seems almost random.
And maybe it is.
Religion offers the idea of balance in people, society, through something we can't see. The afterlife, heaven, hell, karma, reincarnation... if something bad happens to someone good, that person when they die, will be rewarded, or even in life, later down the road, balance will be restored. The same for the good happening to the bad, or the bad being punished for what they do and think. It also offers the idea of an invisible web of events, unseen clockwork, things set in motion so that humanity as a whole will benefit. Philosophy even touches on that, as well as defining what or who is good and bad, and even removing those factors from the equation altogether. Science, behavioral and even natural, offers us cause and effect, the motivations behind the actions, and even remedy for unjust, or simply unfortunate events, usually through changing the environment, controlling the factors that lead to these occurences.
Though I would like to, when I am honest with how I feel about what I see, I don't believe in religious or agree with philosophical explanations for why life, the good and bad parts of it, happen when and to whom they do, and science doesn't offer balance, it only gives us explanations as to what happened, and what should be done to prevent it from happening again.
I think that Life simply happens, without balance. The bad will happen to the good, and good will happen to the bad, and the good will happen to the good, and to the bad, the bad. This is what I see. The events in life are impacted by so many variables, that it seems almost random.
And maybe it is.