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Not sure I want to get any closer to the sort of god that allows the kind of suffering Terry Davis went through.
by dmd 2y ago
Not sure I want to get any closer to the sort of god that allows the kind of suffering Terry Davis went through.
- ASalazarMX 2y agoI'm going Devil's Advocate (ha ha) and point out that some people believe suffering makes us closer, and worthy, in the eyes of God. Even Mother Teresa was criticized for thinking that suffering was a gift from God, so she didn't consider analgesics and overall comfort a priority.
- exe34 2y ago> she didn't consider analgesics and overall comfort a priority. only for others. for herself, she got the best treatment donation money can buy.
- hitekker 2y agoIIRC, analgesics/comfort were actually considered but Mother Theresa’s hospices couldn’t afford it. They were in the slums of India decades ago. Hence, why they were hospices not hospitals
- polishdude20 2y agoDidn't she get loads of donations and money once she started meeting famous people and becoming famous herself?
- RandomBacon 2y agoAre you someone who constantly seeks to change or "improve" things? Apparently she had something that worked, so why fix something that isn't broken? "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- polishdude20 2y agoI'm not sure what your point is? That despite all the money and donations she got, she decided the simple thing was to let people suffer?