Lau-Tzu's 'Archetypes Of Wisdom'
Why do innocent people suffer? It is a question that all human being have asked either once in their life time or at multiple times. Innocent people suffer while the sinners succeed. We mention this question when it seems that innocent people suffer from a death or when they lose all that they have worked for. While people that do not seem to care with what happens, get what they do not deserve. “Who knows why heaven dislikes what is dislikes? Even the sage considers it a difficult question.” Lau-Tzu (Archetypes of Wisdom, p. 45). As Lau-Tzu clearly states not even the high sage knows why heaven dislikes what it dislikes. This is a question that no one can answer, except for God. We have thought that if we do good it will please Him
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200) I think what Epictetus was trying to say is to not seek or wish to have events happen to you as you would want them to happen. For if you did you would be always be in a rut, always seeking what you want out of like instead of taking what your life has to offer. Each life has something else to offer each individual person. For what might happen to one might not happen for you and it might not happen when you want it too. When people win the big money with the lottery, there is always someone wishing they had that money or luck. They think of things to say of why that person does not even need that money and how you could use it for better and/ or wiser things. Who is to say that you won’t win the lottery tomorrow, the next year or 15 years from now? So there is no reason to wish or be concerned of what you have and do not …show more content…
The ideology was this: A man’s suffering is always the result of his personal sin. Further, the more one has sinned, the greater he will suffer. Based upon these premises, the application was perfectly clear: Job was suffering tremendously; obviously, therefore, he was guilty of grievous sins — sins he had concealed, refusing to confess his wrongs to God.
That Job’s ideas are skewed likewise is evidenced by the fact that he commences to argue a flawed case against the Lord. Suffering is sent by God as the result of personal sin. But Job was certain that he had committed no sins that deserved this degree of punishment. The fault must lie, therefore, with Jehovah. He is not administering justice fairly in this world. The tents of robbers seem to prosper, and the innocent are subjected to calamities. And God turns his back on these inequities! If these injustices are not of the Lord’s fault, who else is responsible
200) I think what Epictetus was trying to say is to not seek or wish to have events happen to you as you would want them to happen. For if you did you would be always be in a rut, always seeking what you want out of like instead of taking what your life has to offer. Each life has something else to offer each individual person. For what might happen to one might not happen for you and it might not happen when you want it too. When people win the big money with the lottery, there is always someone wishing they had that money or luck. They think of things to say of why that person does not even need that money and how you could use it for better and/ or wiser things. Who is to say that you won’t win the lottery tomorrow, the next year or 15 years from now? So there is no reason to wish or be concerned of what you have and do not …show more content…
The ideology was this: A man’s suffering is always the result of his personal sin. Further, the more one has sinned, the greater he will suffer. Based upon these premises, the application was perfectly clear: Job was suffering tremendously; obviously, therefore, he was guilty of grievous sins — sins he had concealed, refusing to confess his wrongs to God.
That Job’s ideas are skewed likewise is evidenced by the fact that he commences to argue a flawed case against the Lord. Suffering is sent by God as the result of personal sin. But Job was certain that he had committed no sins that deserved this degree of punishment. The fault must lie, therefore, with Jehovah. He is not administering justice fairly in this world. The tents of robbers seem to prosper, and the innocent are subjected to calamities. And God turns his back on these inequities! If these injustices are not of the Lord’s fault, who else is responsible