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Does Everything Have To Make Sense?
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If everything does have to make sense, what’s the criteria for making sense? And if some things don’t have to make sense, how’s human being supposed to know what’s right and what’s wrong?
12 Comments Posted
No, everything doesn't have to make sense. As a matter of fact, I prefer if there are things in life that do not make sense. I believe that G-d gave us the ability to think, reason, discern and dream so that we can try to make sense of things. That's the fun part. However, no matter how hard we try, there are just some things that can't be made sense of. So what do we do then?The answer is simple. We realize that we are not G-d, and we'll never make sense of everything because we don't have all the information. Forcing us to rely on and trust in G-d. Enjoy life and let G-d worry about making everything fit into place.
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As you get older, I find things start to make more and more sense. Sometimes one only understands things that happen, many years later
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Yes, Mr. Allen, everything does make sense: Like Moshe Rabbaneu, as it says in written Torah, who sees G-d in hindsight as he is hidden behing the rock. Nowadays, we are secularized to the point where we demand everything make sense up front. But it's in looking back, as Moshe did from behind the rock, that we often see how much of it (G-d, Torah, yiddisheit) made sense after all, and what's more, made sense along. It's not that somethings don't make sense; it's that they haven't necessarily made sense to us yet. Perhaps, the absolute sense of it, some of it, may not be made apparent until Moshiach comes. But I suspect (and I suspect as well that I'm not alone with it) that is all does make sense somehow.
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The world has never made any sense to me despite my best efforts it never has, never will. Despite the Sage's articles on the subject trying to sort "it" all out.
I'll just stick to making cents!
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Everything makes sense to G-d and every thing that happens in our lives is pre-ordaned by G-d. In order for G-d to foretell the future with 100% acuracy, every last detail was scrutinized. We can see into the future when we read the Bible and understand that we are included in that future, either blessed or cursed. G-d knows our next thought and is only a mystery to us but never Him. Everthing and everyone is perfect and doing exactly what must be done to reach that perfect ending that was seen in the beginning. No matter how difficult the choises we make seem to us today the answers has always been a foregone conclusion. The book of life was written before the first man came into being, I personally do not believe that it contains even one eraser mark, or ever will. That would imply that G-d made a mistake and that is impossible. It is important to understand that if you do not feel like you deserve to be written in the Book now, if you repent and choose G-d He will choose you.
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Edmund,
If everything is already mapped out and predestined, then why should a person worry about his/her actions? If it is already predestined for me to be in the book, then I have nothing to worry about. If it's predestined for me to not be in the book, then there is nothing I could do to get in the book, even repent.
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Dear Anonymous;
If a car was out of control and headed towards you and a companion, you glance behind you and see the car, you have two choises. one; you can jump out of the way and save yourself and let the other man die because there is no time enough to warn him or two; you can shove the other man out of the way and be killed by the car. You had two choises that you could of made in that instant. G-d knew what choise you would make over 6,000 years ago, and either one; wrote your name in the book of life for sacrificing yourself or two; did not enter your name because you were selfish and saved yourself. See?
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The Talmud says that "everything is in the hands of heaven except the fear of heaven". This means that our MORAL choices are NOT predetermined. We decide. We are responsible.
So there IS someting you can do about getting your name in the book and also about repentance. As long as we are alive, Gd waits for our repentance and reaches out to us to receive us in love.
There are many stories about people whose place in the Next World was achieved in one act of penance or in one heartfelt moment of repentance. Ask any orthodox rabbi and he will tell you several of them.
Do not give up. Take charge. Do the mitzvos (the commandments). Rejoice.
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The author Tom Clancy is quoted as saying: "The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense." From a human perspective there is much in life of which we cannot make sense. This is not surprising since we are in many ways limited beings; our knowledge is incomplete, our perspective only allows us to see things from one angle at any given time, etc. Reality makes sense only to G-d. He sees all the things we cannot see; He know why one thing happens and not the other. For G-d, there is no chaos theory, no uncertainty principle, nothing left to chance.
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You want the world to make sense morally.
Maybe the world is run in quite a different way. Maybe the world's idea of sense is simply that many different kinds of life should flourish here on this earth in balance with each other. Maybe individual plants and animals (and people) don't matter.
Just a thought. I mean, that would WORK.
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Very often friends face disputes that are giving mixed feelings and messages. When it comes down to communicate our issues, we must be able to identify what is really bothering us, if we have anything to do with the disagreement, and to be honest with yourself. If the relationship hurts you to a point where you can no longer go on with this friendship, back off, and let your pain heal. A Broken friendship could be restored with good will, but death is final. If issues could be resolved it is great. Use your energy to look for new friends. Don't communicate to a hazy friend when you feel angry or hurt. Step back, calm down, think rationally, and then try to bring up the subject to your friends. Solutions to friendships must be practical and positive. Otherwise, it can affects our health and activities of daily livings, and the friendship must end.
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The world tries to fill itself with a great variety of very many living things. Humans have been disturbing the atmosphere, poisoning the oceans and the groundwater, and generally causing many species to go extinct.
Why would Gd put us in charge of the other animals? Maybe in our arrogance we put ourselves in charge and claimed it was Gd. it's only one little verse in Bereshis.
The alternative would be to say that Gd made a terrible mistake.
Or, that when we ate the tree of knowledge, the knowledge we gained was how to destroy all life, eventually including human life. Gd did warn us that on the day we ate it, we would die, and 1000 years in Gd's sight is like a watch in the night, and if there are three watches in the night and three in the day that's 6000 years, so it's been about long enough for humans to go extinct before the "day" is out.
Maybe THAT is the moral basis of our earth.
Will Mashiach come to teach us better before it's too late--before Shabbos?
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