Why does God allow bad things to happen
to nice people?
Introduction
There are very few videos in this playlist,
but we can immediately answer the question,
by simply saying,
"God" - in whatever way one views God -
has no involvement in what we view
as "good" or "bad".
This Ultimate Intelligence
has a plan for the evolution of the universe,
there are Intelligences that help with this plan.
But the only "good" that exists
is whether everything is going to plan
and the only "bad" that exists
is whether it is not going to plan.
And the only reason it may not be going to plan
is because the only creature on earth
that does not follow instructions is man!
Ash and all 50 shades of Grey
The main video that is used to explain
the concept of "good" and "bad" is this one.
People view "good" and "bad" subjectively.
They either view it from a totally personal point of view
- is it good for me or bad for me?
Or they try to include a perhaps slightly larger known group
and try to empathise. But empathy is not easy,
you could be setting yourself up as the saviour of a group
that does not want to be "saved" from an evil,
the group does not regard as evil
and this leads us on to the conclusion
that the philosopher Nietzsche also came to,
that good and bad must be handled using workable
agreed [not imposed] HUMAN DEVISED laws.
And that stability and environments conducive to creativity
are only created when these laws are followed
and transgressors stopped
- even if the law is detrimental to them.
And Intelligences are not involved in this at all.
The Symbolism of Scales - Balance, Justice and Libra
This video is then the companion to the Ash video.
It explores, using the story of Daniel
and the "Writing on the Wall",
how justice was once regarded
as simply going with the laws of Nature.
Or if you prefer keeping to God's plan.
Defying the Laws of Nature puts everything out of Balance,
we disrupt the Balance of Nature.
And this is when "bad things happen to good people",
because although these "good people"
may not have been directly involved,
somewhere in the progression of cause and effect
they were involved.
The conclusion is then
that "bad things happen to good people",
for two main reasons.
We go against the Laws of Nature
or if you prefer
disobey the Intelligences' plans for evolution.
Man has not set up the necessary human laws.
And then these "good" people
may not be "good" people according to those laws,
or someone somewhere
[possibly in a chain of cause and effect],
is flouting those laws, affecting the innocent,
and not being stopped or apprehended.
Overall
Overall, God neither allows or disallows
bad things to happen to anyone.
Put in very very simplistic terms
God is not some personal God at your beck and call.
God is the creator, maintainer and destroyer
of a universe so vast and so intricate
that we would be hard pressed
to take in even the minutest fraction.
Even then, our part of this universe
may be the product of Intelligences
He/She/It may regard as small fry.
The only thing we should be able to discern,
is that there is a plan and a strategy.
And over billions of years the plan has been executed.
And that,
despite our thinking we are some favoured species,
we are not.
Species have come, species have gone.
We are just another species.
And at the moment we are proving a nuisance.
In the video on Ash and all 50 shades of Grey
we saw that "good" and "bad" are not absolutes,
that they need to be defined by people
- groups of people not one person with power.
And that the only person one can speak for reliably
is yourself.
State your case, and the meek have as much right
to state their case as the strong.
And all have an equal case.
Having a loud voice and a platform does not make you right.
And once the law has been made,
it is for you to follow it, otherwise anarchy follows.
At the moment, we have gone against the Laws of Nature,
and Nature is in some senses punishing us.
But there is no malice, or good or bad involved.
No God. If anyone flounts the law,
punishment is in a sense built in.
We reap what we sow.
But listen and the plan will be revealed,
for every one of us has a small part of the divine within us,
down to the tiniest microbe.
The Atharvaveda - Hymn to goddess Earth Part 3
Thy snowy mountain heights, and thy forests, O Earth,
may they be kind to us.
The brown, the black, the red,
the multi-coloured, the firm Earth,
that is protected by lndra,
I have settled upon, I shall not destroy
I shall not harm I shall not wound.
lnto thy middle set us, O Earth, and into thy navel,
into the nourishing strength that has grown up from thy body;
may we purify ourselves for you.
The Earth is the Mother, and I the Son of the Earth;
Paro-anya is the Father; May he, too, save us
The Earth upon which the holy men place the altar,
upon which they, devoted to all holy works,
unfold their sacrifice,
upon which are to be found the twin pillars,
the sacrificial posts, erect and brilliant,
that Earth shall help us prosper,
and we shall help Her thrive
Him that hates us, o Earth,
him that battles against us,
him that is hostile towards us
with his mind and his weapons,
may we fight together to overcome him
together we shall anticipate his actions by our deeds
Mortals born of thee live on Thee,
thou supportest both bipeds and quadrupeds.
To thee, O Earth, belong the five races of men,
the mortals, upon whom the rising sun
sheds undying light with his rays.
These creatures all together shall yield milk for You
O Earth, may you give us the honey of wisests words
Upon the firm, broad Earth,
the all-begetting Mother of the plants,
that is supported by divine law,
upon her, propitious and kind,
may we ever pass our lives.