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The Tragedy of Reality & The Ecstasy of Belief

If you look around the world today, and not just into those corners of it that we prefer to see, but actually paying attention to the homeless people around the world, that we all knowingly ignore like the "bums" we pass on the street, it's impossible to claim that reality is anything but a tragedy, all in all.

That we have moments in our lives that fill us with rapture, love, and joy, does not change the fact that we enjoy these experiences, which convince us that life is a gift, while there are so many countless others of us around the world for whom life feels like nothing but a curse.

To escape that reality, one where we experience so many fleeting mini-heavens of bliss on earth while others feel like they're roasting alive in a permanent hell, we "believe" that it's all out of our hands, and there's just nothing we can do about any of it. So we defer to God, most of all, insisting it's all somehow part of his divine plan, while believing those  responsible for creating the suffering in the world will one day get theirs, even as we worship those who's accumulation of wealth is the very cause of such suffering in the first place.

We just never think that any of us are responsible for any of it, of course.

Because admitting we are, would only pop our little ecstasy bubble of beliefs. And nobody likes to crap in their own comfort zone.

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