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The return of the condor and camping in Pinnacles
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Gus diZerega
I just spent a few nights camping out at Pinnacles National Monument, far away from computers, cell phones, and the news. It was wonderful, both being in nature and not beimg connected to the news or technology beyond basic camping gear. Our biggest problem was a gang of thieving raccoons who made off with a…
The problem of evil and undeserved suffering, Part II: Suffering in the Natural World
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Gus diZerega
From within a modern Western framework, we understand life as gradually developing from simple cells to multi-cellular organisms and then to ever more differentiated beings, ultimately including ourselves. At times natural catastrophes have set back the abundance of earthly life through mass extinctions, but life has always picked itself up and returned with renewed abundance.…
A Pagan take on the problem of evil and undeserved suffering, Part I.
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Gus diZerega
One of the oldest problems in religion is the prevalence of undeserved suffering and its implications about good and evil. However we might conceive it, if Spirit is good, why do bad things happen to good people, and why do bad people seem so often to come out on top? There is even a technical…
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