Were some people born to suffer?

[Diane]

I believe millions a people a year are born to suffer. When you look at the very poor that breed and have children even though they have no food to feed them. These children are born to suffer.

[nickie]

I believe that suffering is in the mind. Pain cannot be escaped, but we do choose whether or not to suffer. Maybe this is a question of semantics? There is a lot of pain and suffering in the world, and for those who seem to be born into it? Well, the best explanation I have ever heard is that the Law of Karma exists. We have many lifetimes, and how well off we are born depends on how good a person we were in past lives. Of course, I don't believe in reincarnation, but I probably didn't in my last lifetimes either.

[RebeccaFog]

as for the question

Were some people born to suffer?

The answer is - People who watch MTV were born to suffer.

[NicholeW.]

Yep, Nickie has it. Pain exists as life exists. Suffering is profoundly cognitive. Hence, people suffer, often from the least things: ummmm, broken nails, traffic, 45 days of ceaseless torture in the dungeons of The Bastille, a marriage to a serial abuser.

[Kaeren]

I was born to suffer.  I think we should put the difference inside of ourselves.  Giving peace to the world outside of you makes you suffer.

That's why ->-bleeped-<-s never suffer.

[RebeccaFog]

I was born to suffer.  I think we should put the difference inside of ourselves.  Giving peace to the world outside of you makes you suffer.

That's why ->-bleeped-<-s never suffer.

You really need to pare down the wording so this can be printed on Tee shirts.     really.  It's true.

[Kaeren]

Rebis,

Thanks. You're very kind towards my opinion.  I really think you have a choice of changing your outside or inside world.  Maybe it is my obsession but in my opinion transgendered people have made the choice ( willingly or not ) of changing the inside. One could even see it as a reward for being "good". While the penalty for being "bad" is becoming an animal again. In other words regression of your own development.

The world is never black and white, but always something inbetween. And I believe people should also be both. 

I don't want to become too biblical but the path to heaven has many rocks on it and is very difficult and long.  Heaven is something else for everybody. I think nature imposes some change on us. You either put this outside or you put it inside as long as there is change. But making the choice of putting it inside of you will bring you peace on the long term. Still the cost is that you have to suffer first.

In the end however all things are equal anyhow.

It's all my own personal opinion which is of course not perfect.

Karen.

[King Malachite]

As Eric Draven from "The Crow" said...."Victims aren't we all?"

I personally believe that any creature that was born on Earth was born to suffer.  Now whether the amount of suffering or length of suffering happens is just based on the different types of circumstances such as location, decade, values, morals, financies, etc.

Some people get luckier than others and don't constantly suffer all of their lives (be it from self-determination, money, health, moving etc you name it) while others do.

It's just the luck of the draw I suppose.