I understand the point of caste systems, now. They are inevitable. The people who suffer know of suffering in such a way that those who haven't suffered can never possibly understand, no matter how hard those who suffer try to make them understand it. I think I now believe that those who haven't suffered should be left alone until they have to call upon those who have suffered in order to help them get through, and those who have suffered should stay away from those who haven't. What the hell was Jesus doing, then? He forced himself to suffer so he could understand those who had also suffered? Then what the hell are all the people who aren't suffering doing? They claim Jesus and preach we should be like him, yet they live comfortably and without suffering as much as possible and, instead of placing themselves in miserable situations in order to understand the hurts of the suffering, they attempt to take the suffering from where they are and make them understand what it's like not to suffer, even though once you've suffered you can never forget? We cannot understand each other. But one thing seems to be true... those who have suffered cannot forget the suffering, but those who haven't suffered can eventually experience what it is like to suffer. So since the suffered are too soiled to be un-suffered, shouldn't the un-suffered be forced to suffer through something of weight so as to actually understand not only what it is like to suffer but, consequently, those who suffer? Isn't that how we must all be the same? Jesus freaking Christ. Jesus freaking Christ is right.
But then we'd all be suffering. But at least we'd be together... for once? At least we'd all, finally, be like-minded? Is like-mindedness, with so many, ever really even possible?
Jesus Christ.
I think that really, we are all suffering. Ever since the fall, we have all been placed into bondage by birth (to quote some other bible verse).
ReplyDeleteA friend put this quote up the other night and I think it applies:
“To be sure, we could be motivated by the desire to escape hell or the desire to have material riches or the desire to rejoin a loved one. But how does it honor the light when the only reason we come into the light is to find those things that we loved in the dark?”
That's from John Piper's "Desiring God" and I like it because it gives such great perspective about how we have such horrible perspective on the concept of glory and what we're really missing out on being on this Earth.
Anyway. Yeah.