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Originally Posted by Wandering_Star
Recognize the ways you are already blessed in this life.
, but rather that we willingly choose the challenges we want to experience, and the kinds of people and circumstances that will help us do that.
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You can be pretty sure that those thousands of people dying of hunger and thirst at the moment in Somalia didn't choose their lives.
And the rest of the world's poor and downtrodden.
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The constantly promoted belief (induced by religions) that we are born to be good and obey (in order to enter heaven) is a tragic error in the concept of the universe's plan and an insult to mankind's intellect.
'A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory'
- Mark Twain.
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