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This should be either His evil intent or His professional negligence that estimated 1.5 billion masks has entered the oceans in 2020. https://www.greenmatters.

This should be either His evil intent or His professional negligence that estimated 1.5 billion masks has entered the oceans in 2020. https://www.greenmatters.com/p/how-many-face-masks-ocean-2020 https://www.greenmatters.com/p/how-many-face-masks-ocean-202...

lcall 6y ago
You raise an interesting issue, and pollution is a concern to me also. In my beliefs, part of His plan is letting us exercise our agency (or ability to choose), for our experience/learning/growth, and to find or show what it is we really desire; and there are consequences. It is up to us to learn to make good choices, but He does not force us. There will be justice, and mercy to those who seek it, for whom I believe things really will be made OK in the end. (Our choices matter, and we live in a very imperfect world.) So, there are both big issues and opportunities for individual peace while we work on the issues, and even as we experience troubles (Edit: and our good efforts are all worthwhile, as this is neither the beginning nor end of our existence). It seems good to start with ourselves, and encourage others (that honesty/Golden Rule stuff). I hope that makes some sense, whether or not we agree on details. More is elsewhere.
- idiocrat 6y ago
  > It is up to us to learn to make good choices, but He does not force us. If you are saying that you are solely responsible for your own actions, why then you need an inert Bystander? It is completely indifferent and you can choose any other Totem to run your thoughts by, or act in the Name of. You can choose Neutrinos, for example. They are truly abundant and omnipresent -- quazillions of Neutrinos are passing through your body each femtosecond. They are not forcing you to do anything (because they do not interact). They are just filling your body with their presence. You can talk to them and ask them for the Way, and they will share the same space with you to comfort you, as you know they are with you, but also leave you to your options. The Neutrinos are fully inert Bystanders.
  - lcall 6y ago
    As I noted, there will be justice. He will judge and provide eternal punishment or reward, fairly according to our knowledge, for our thoughts, words, and acts. It will be very specific and real. Mercy, and help in our lives, right now, are available as noted above, but only to the extent we choose them. These can now and will be concrete in their impact on us, not abstract, and I can attest to that in many specific ways. I have learned some things for myself, not as a constructed philosophy, but as a determination of truth from multiple angles. Anyone can begin and continue to learn for themselves if they want and humbly & sincerely try. It has been important to me, to know for myself, because just believing what someone else said or wrote has limits. I have written about it in great detail at my site (noted in my profile), to be either skimmed or pursued, to the extent that one desires. All the best wishes to you in your endeavors. (Edits: some phrasing.) Edit: Also, everyone will eventually have a opportunity to know and choose accordingly, so by "fair", above, I mean that all will have a fair chance to receive their reward or punishment according to their own true desires and choices.

lcall 6y ago

You raise an interesting issue, and pollution is a concern to me also. In my beliefs, part of His plan is letting us exercise our agency (or ability to choose), for our experience/learning/growth, and to find or show what it is we really desire; and there are consequences. It is up to us to learn to make good choices, but He does not force us. There will be justice, and mercy to those who seek it, for whom I believe things really will be made OK in the end. (Our choices matter, and we live in a very imperfect world.) So, there are both big issues and opportunities for individual peace while we work on the issues, and even as we experience troubles (Edit: and our good efforts are all worthwhile, as this is neither the beginning nor end of our existence). It seems good to start with ourselves, and encourage others (that honesty/Golden Rule stuff). I hope that makes some sense, whether or not we agree on details. More is elsewhere.

idiocrat 6y ago
> It is up to us to learn to make good choices, but He does not force us. If you are saying that you are solely responsible for your own actions, why then you need an inert Bystander? It is completely indifferent and you can choose any other Totem to run your thoughts by, or act in the Name of. You can choose Neutrinos, for example. They are truly abundant and omnipresent -- quazillions of Neutrinos are passing through your body each femtosecond. They are not forcing you to do anything (because they do not interact). They are just filling your body with their presence. You can talk to them and ask them for the Way, and they will share the same space with you to comfort you, as you know they are with you, but also leave you to your options. The Neutrinos are fully inert Bystanders.
- lcall 6y ago
  As I noted, there will be justice. He will judge and provide eternal punishment or reward, fairly according to our knowledge, for our thoughts, words, and acts. It will be very specific and real. Mercy, and help in our lives, right now, are available as noted above, but only to the extent we choose them. These can now and will be concrete in their impact on us, not abstract, and I can attest to that in many specific ways. I have learned some things for myself, not as a constructed philosophy, but as a determination of truth from multiple angles. Anyone can begin and continue to learn for themselves if they want and humbly & sincerely try. It has been important to me, to know for myself, because just believing what someone else said or wrote has limits. I have written about it in great detail at my site (noted in my profile), to be either skimmed or pursued, to the extent that one desires. All the best wishes to you in your endeavors. (Edits: some phrasing.) Edit: Also, everyone will eventually have a opportunity to know and choose accordingly, so by "fair", above, I mean that all will have a fair chance to receive their reward or punishment according to their own true desires and choices.