Suffering leads to wisdom... yes, but why is wisdom important in the first place? Isn't so we are better able to overcome suffering? A world without suffering wouldn't have need of wisdom.
I say this just in case someone was going to the use the 'suffering gives wisdom' piece as some sort of theodicy. If they did, surely it would be a circular argument.
Because there are different types of suffering, some necessary, some natural, some man-made, wisdom becomes a key element in discerning the one from the other. If wisdom be important to better overcome suffering, then a world without need of wisdom would never be without suffering. A world without suffering would be the product of wisdom if this concept were to be taken as true.
Some suffering gives us wisdom. Some suffering gives us no knowledge other than that we are suffering. Thank you, dear friend, for having watched and commented.
I get what you're saying; without wisdom we'd create our own suffering. I may have been simplistic. I was just trying to avoid a theodicy, where people use this sort of thinking to reconcile all suffering with the existence of God. When really I think that if God existed he'd create us already wise, forgoing the need for suffering to create wisdom. I point this out because I don't trust, morally, the idea of justifying all suffering as a good thing, as theists often do with the problem of evil.
Who is it that knows there is no self?
Juanster23 1 year ago
@Juanster23 you see that it is no self when you get enlighten
honnnesty 1 year ago
@Juanster23
Mind
moo20727 10 months ago
Great! Thank you.
Carlsarv 1 year ago
Suffering leads to wisdom... yes, but why is wisdom important in the first place? Isn't so we are better able to overcome suffering? A world without suffering wouldn't have need of wisdom.
I say this just in case someone was going to the use the 'suffering gives wisdom' piece as some sort of theodicy. If they did, surely it would be a circular argument.
sam51092 2 years ago
Because there are different types of suffering, some necessary, some natural, some man-made, wisdom becomes a key element in discerning the one from the other. If wisdom be important to better overcome suffering, then a world without need of wisdom would never be without suffering. A world without suffering would be the product of wisdom if this concept were to be taken as true.
QuietZen 2 years ago
Some suffering gives us wisdom. Some suffering gives us no knowledge other than that we are suffering. Thank you, dear friend, for having watched and commented.
QuietZen 2 years ago
I get what you're saying; without wisdom we'd create our own suffering. I may have been simplistic. I was just trying to avoid a theodicy, where people use this sort of thinking to reconcile all suffering with the existence of God. When really I think that if God existed he'd create us already wise, forgoing the need for suffering to create wisdom. I point this out because I don't trust, morally, the idea of justifying all suffering as a good thing, as theists often do with the problem of evil.
sam51092 2 years ago
Not all suffering is a good thing. Very little of it is. I agree with you on this, my friend.
QuietZen 2 years ago
TRON
bluedeucegooch 2 years ago