What if all of humanity is a single entity - a single "spirit" that lives as one human, dies and is reborn as another human over and over until the spirit experiences the sum of all human existence. In one lifetime this spirit finds itself as the rapist, in the next life the spirit finds itself as the rape victim. It finds itself as the king in one life and serf in the next, as the communist dictator in on round and gulag prisoner in another, corrupt judge and defendant. This spirit, which is both you and i, experiences all cause and effect of humanity.
Im this example life is entirely fair and deserving as the spirit experiences both action and consequence. The most horrific acts imaginable are but the spirit acting upon itself as the horrors delivered in one lifetime are the horrors received in the next.
The point? Perhaps this is all a trial for the spirit to come to the self realization of its wrongs and previous departing from God. Maybe at the end of this the human spirit will experience the sum total of all human lives at once and transcend into something else. Or maybe this is some perpetual self-deserving hell that is inescapable due to past sins we are unaware of.
What do you think?
Is your standard for good news (aka a white pill) small or big, personal or societal?
Is it lukewarm acceptance, such as: Humanity is continuing to muddle along and didn't destroy civilization in a nuclear war today, huzzah!
Or is it personal? I got a promotion/laid/new job/won at a tournament, etc..... Life's tough, but I'm doing okay because I made a difference for me.
Or is it metaphysical? Life is suffering due to personal attachments, I am working towards ending my worldly attachment to material possession. Meh.
Granted, people by nature are primed to focus on the negative. There's plenty of bad stuff in this world. Worse, some people are existentially nihilistic and like a cancer they spread their misery to others. They can't handle their own personal powerlessness in the face of overwhelming suffering that has always been the lot of mankind.
But my friends, all this will pass away, and what you do with life echoes through eternity.
