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Originally Posted by docjp
I could have been much clearer and should have been. "Bad" is not the term I would use. Resisting the virtue of Acceptance is what happens when one seeks to prevent people from wrestling with the opportunities of Life by trying to remove the opportunities. That is... the person who incarnates to experience poverty and to rise above this and perhaps even achieve some level of prosperity is robbed of this opportunity if poverty is made unavailable.
When the natural forces of Life are tampered with by Man, the inevitable result is to interfere with people and their "right" to experience what they came into this life to experience. If this physical plane was intended to be a paradise, and everyone was meant to be placid, fat and complacent, and there was nothing to achieve.... who would want to live here?
Peace
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To my uninitiated "MIND," this just sounds like a rationalization for not doing anything about all the things wrong in this world (I guess my fearful Liberal mind doesn't see this physical plane as 'perfect'). After all, living in a slum suffering from tuberculosis is an 'opportunity', and experiencing the death of your children from malnutrition and diarrhea a 'right'. Who am I to interfere?
Not all people who seek change in this world want to do so to make it into a paradise, or to make everyone placid, fat, and complacent. Some are much less ambitious, like providing clean drinking water to poor communities, medicine for treatable diseases, and supplies to areas ravaged by natural disaster.
If you were walking down the road, and came across a car accident where you could help the person, and they could certainly use your help, would you? Or would you let them "experience what they came into this life to experience"?