Elucidating Questions

People act like suffering is prescribed by the Universe

Like suffering is a noble fact of life

Not like we made it this way

Not like money is manufactured

Not like the housing crisis is manufactured

They act like we don’t have enough food on the planet to feed everyone while food rots, purposely destroyed beyond use, in grocery store dumpsters

While thousands of houses lie unoccupied they act like there isn’t enough shelter

Like we don’t have the ability to build and provide sufficient shelter

They act like human cruelty is a given, while going around being cruel to one another because no one ever faces consequences for being that way

Meanwhile people rot in jail for having had drugs on their person

And we made it that way

We act like bad parenting is normal

But we don’t offer actual parenting classes in school right?

As long as you don’t break the flour, or the egg, or the baby doll thing doesn’t cry (and that’s just on TV) you will be an acceptable parent

Media produced to normalise bad behaviour and parenting and the ridicule of “others”

Anything which shows positive values is considered boring or for kids

Because only kids need to have good values instilled?

But humanity did this to itself

You can’t deny the strife a tornado, a volcanic eruption, a tsunami causes

These are promises of the Universe

That the world around us cannot always be kind

But we could make things to do with us kinder

People don’t need to suffer because of not having food

They don’t need to be homeless

We don’t need to make the world so cruel that it drives people insane

We don’t need to work all the time to make everything keep running so that the few deemed worthy in the world can continue their forever vacation

And I don’t expect perfection

I want perfection

But arguments happen

Sometimes people are just toxic and they cause strife

Sometimes things go wrong

Certainly, suffering does exist

No matter how hard you try to perfect life

But aren’t you sick of other people being the predominant reason your life sucks?

Why do we treat humanity as a competition?

With winners and losers and that’s just how it is?

The things that go wrong in the Universe, unaided by a living being, don’t happen because there are winners and losers

When galaxies collide there is no winner, they combine and change into something new

And, yeah, bigger things, say black holes, do consume things

But I don’t think that’s a competition how humans see competition

There wasn’t a winner and a loser

We have no way of knowing what the black hole is for

Same as we have no idea why the Earth decided to have an earthquake, or why there was a hurricane, or why lightning struck and started a forest fire

Things we can’t control, can’t understand, can’t really know what they lead to

But why do we create problems?

Were the infinite possibilities of things that can go wrong in this place not enough?

We can’t stop a hurricane, but we can stop things like homelessness and hunger

We can be a community that supports and encourages gentle people, kind people, people who want to help one another

The promise of the Universe is that anything can exist in this space

Great joys and great sadness

Great kindness and great cruelty

That some things happen without our ability to change them

They also gave us the ability to help one another

They gave us the ability to overcome some so called “truths” of nature

Someone in the 700s would have thought that people dying en masse from influenza was just a truth of the world

We’ve shown that with dedication that doesn’t have to be true to such an extent

If we showed more it may not have to be true at all

Human suffering doesn’t need to be at nearly the degree it is

Wild animals are having a better time than most of us