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• mephistopheles credo is that being is so permeated by suffering and catastrophe and tragedy and betrayal that it would
• that in heaven there must be some degree of suffering otherwise it couldn't be joy
• mephistopheles credo is that being is so permeated by suffering and catastrophe and tragedy and betrayal
• is simply peace and joy and there is no suffering involved i don't believe that this is a
• that in heaven there must be some degree of suffering otherwise it couldn't be joy
• do would alleviate suffering and bring the world to a better state of being and so
• that it became criminal to admit that you were suffering it's like you can't be hungry the state is perfect yes oh

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• at the price of often life and limb and suffering and we're now

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• was that there was a real desire to help people who are suffering and a recognition increasing recognition that

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• in brief what i feel we're suffering from at the moment well we're going to delve into that and in
• in brief and so many other instances of needless human suffering the way i make sense of them i mean

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• where they've lost their human resonance with the suffering of humanity so i think it's a part but not

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• continue with this because even though he's got a sore throat and is suffering a little bit at the moment so we're

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• in me there is grief in the long-suffering i do not understand thy ways but thou o
• all things even suffering have deep meaning
• of this life more than ever before in his deepest suffering and despair and i really think about that and i think
• but this is why the sort of you know unspeakable suffering and approach events at the heart somehow christianity
• everything and everything is in god so that the nature of suffering is transformed and i mean of course it's
• very comforting for you to delude yourself that suffering is transformed but i i don't think i delude myself for
• not had some of the suffering that i have had in life and some of it you can't wage
• life and some of it you can't wage suffering um and when i have said to to people to
• my own therapist well you know my my suffering is not that great and they said well you you can't weigh stuttering
• that which was the talk about the christian mythos of suffering that includes yes the way you put that yes
• yes well there is no life without suffering how can there be likely you just have to look at nature there's no
• gear and killing it you know so there is no without suffering and just have a baby and you'll find out you know yes
• yes the very fulcrum of it that's giving life it's tremendous suffering it comes to the baby as well yes
• um a cosmos in which the world's native suffering and and i don't have an answer to that except to say that it seems to
• um back to the whole question of suffering and god and what would god have intended and so forth and what i
• but because you know of all the suffering and maybe that's part of the message of jesus too is that as it is
• are experiencing at some level experiencing that deep suffering and you're not no one can be possibly be
• it's through wantability to feel suffering and one word even if one hadn't personally as you said and i i
• know as you were saying for for somebody who loves they can't avoid suffering and if god loves then he couldn't avoid
• and if god loves then he couldn't avoid suffering i that suffering is bound up with love and love is bound up with
• with love and love is bound up with suffering as he demonstrated through his life so i just wanted to say that that

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• an inner purpose even though they bring pain and suffering and even disaster and the reason is is that when we feel
• i think this also means that we need to reconsider the experience of suffering because that is a reality too
• but what he's able to do this time is embrace this suffering keeping his mind about it unlike
• part of our illumination is understanding our suffering one says this cautiously of course
• one says this cautiously of course because suffering is many different things and sometimes suffering is
• because suffering is many different things and sometimes suffering is something that needs to be aggressively
• understood with the specter but there is a kind of suffering that actually is part of this journey too
• again you know all wrote there reduces suffering to a statistic and we saw a lot of this during the covid pandemic
• and and with that the kindness and the love that suffering can invoke as well generation the second
• way of trying to be aware of reality um it regards suffering as a kind of biomedical problem
• could be something that traps us when we treat suffering in a way of generation perception
• but it also i think understands something else that suffering itself can be a kind of birth pang
• hence in eternity blake's fourth perception suffering here it's not so much that it makes sense but
• it's not so much that it makes sense but the sense isn't destroyed by suffering that meaning is known to be stronger
• might say is that the suffering that's being born is known to have meaning
• um you know maybe in moments at least this suffering can even be welcomed because it's understood that it's
• in you know a really difficult one when you are suffering um but i think ian's work is relevant
• can embrace the darkness much like um the suffering can be born so too when you know that the story of life is
• supernatural the nature of suffering has got to be important in all this because suffering
• the nature of suffering has got to be important in all this because suffering is around and it's going to be around
• very striking um about suffering he said hope is not the conviction that things will get
• better but rather the belief that all things even suffering have ultimate meaning perhaps that's a very good

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• endoscopies and you would see somebody really suffering they were squirming they were obviously in pain they were

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• great things come forward only through suffering um
• our generation who out of the suffering of the gulag um was able to inspire by
• and we need more of that great art which also comes partly through suffering and not through the somewhat indulgent sort