Tragedy

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Cool stuff Shoshana,

Here's my thoughts on this:

Trying to grasp / understand the story is what causes me suffering.

And there is no horrific story in Austria - only in the mind of the

person taking it in. Playing the movie of how terrible it was or

would be.

It's not my business whether the daughter was or is a lover of

reality. Maybe she loved being looked after, fed, being pregnant,

etc. Maybe she believed that she didn't deserve any better.

And you mention being hidden underground and being raped every day

for 26 years (did this happen anyway?) - I can certainly see how I

have hidden myself underground, beneath my beliefs about how I should

be and 'raped' myself and others every day. I rape people every day

when I believe they should shut up, go away or anything else that's

not how reality is in the moment. And I've been doing this for over

30 years :-)

And what is a tragedy? Just a belief.

Would it be tragic if we all got wiped out by some disease or plague?

We're all going to die, so does it matter if it happens over

thousands of years or all at once?

One seems natural, the other can be seen as tragic. Only one would

die whichever way it goes :-)

Thanks for stirring this stuff up - feels good to get this stuff out -

keep up the good work!

With love,

Jon

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> Hi Friends:

> About this horrific story in Austria...how could the daughter be a

> lover of her reality? How could being hidden underground and raped

> for all those years be for her highest good?

> Did God just miss that one during his busy day, every day, for 26

> years?

> If we love reality we must love it 100%, not 99%.

> I was devastated to read of this horror, but since it happened, and

> came into my world via the news, making me lose sleep and feel

> physically ill, I am forced to accept it and even love it.

> One way to understand is to imagine someone who raped women for 26

> years and left 7 women pregnant and uncared for. This guy goes up

at

> the end of his life and finally confronts his filthy soul. So he is

> given an opportunity to go back and feel what his victims felt all

> those years while he shut out their feelings. So it is in his best

> and ultimate good to go thru this as the daughter of a man like

> himself.

> Who says the end of this life is the end of the story?

> Why is this importnat to us lovers of reality?

> Because we can have no doubts, not even the slightest, that reality

> is the best that can happen for EVERYONE, not just the lucky ones.

> How many people go around doubting God and raging at him.

> How can babies die?

> How can innocent people be killed by drunk drivers?

> And these " stories " eat away at their faith in the goodness of

> reality and shake their capacity for continuous joy.

> I think the answer is that we don't know the whole story. If we are

> humble in the face of this awesome world we live in, then we can

> accept that what seems unfair to us is eminently fair, but that we

> don't possess all the facts or a broad enough view to grasp it.

> When tragedy happens, the pain is enough to bear without us

> torturing ourselves with anger at God and the feeling that " this

> shouldn't have happened! " & " It's not fair. "

> It's fair. Believe it.

> Shoshana

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