Saw you on friendsfriends... I can't help but interject an alternative perspective. I wonder about the accuracy of this statement; did I really NEED to become a bitter, alienated, rage-filled person without hope who has finally had the ability to trust and/or care about men mercilessly flayed out of me at the hand of more men than I care to count? And what about all the other people in this position, only worse? For example, people who are raped as children by parents or other authority figures and permanently scarred. When I think of these things, I can't help but doubt that statement.
Sorry to subject you to my own existential dilemma. But I don't think I want to believe in a God who would rationalize deliberately hurting people in the service of some mysterious future goal that may never be discovered and may not even ultimately be intended for the service of the person being hurt. And I know nothing about your situation, but I do hope you won't let yourself be hurt in relationships and rationalize it, enduring the abuse, because someone told you "Well, God must mean for it to achieve something useful."
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Date: 2009-11-10 09:53 pm (UTC)From:Sorry to subject you to my own existential dilemma. But I don't think I want to believe in a God who would rationalize deliberately hurting people in the service of some mysterious future goal that may never be discovered and may not even ultimately be intended for the service of the person being hurt. And I know nothing about your situation, but I do hope you won't let yourself be hurt in relationships and rationalize it, enduring the abuse, because someone told you "Well, God must mean for it to achieve something useful."
Good luck!