Talk to enough people and before long you’ll start hearing how thankful they were some terrible thing happened, or things like “Them cheating on me..” “my divorce...” “being fired...” “was the best thing that ever happened to me.” When Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple it probably really sucked for him. But- it gave him and us Pixar. Each experience in life can change us in subtle ways, and often through hardship we discover how strong we are, figure out what matters to us, learn hard lessons about doing things different we would otherwise be too stubborn to learn, and so on. People like to smugly ask why an all powerful and good God allows bad things- as though they could understand the plans of an omnipotent being... but the simple fact is that some version of free will seems to be inherent to our universe. Here by design or evolution, and to eliminate all “bad” would be to deny that free will and defeat whatever purpose it may serve.
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