Yeah, me too.

I think this is part of our burden to carry. It's painful and its difficult to observe the world and see so much suffering. (Spare a thought for someone like the POTUS, who has to carry knowledge of so much more than you or I do)

But with regards to the burden of knowing, with the suffering, I see it in a similar way to how I see the evil. The evil that we see all around us has (edit: hasn't) just come into being in the recent years. It's always been there, but buried below the surface. From this perspective, the world isn't actually getting darker. It's actually getting lighter, because the darkness that was always there laying over everything like a black cloud, but hidden, is being exposed. It's coming to the surface, and the roots are being withered by that exposure.

Likewise, the suffering we see around us, it's not new in any way. In fact, comparatively, the sufferings we experience or see is by and large much less than what people have experienced in the past. If it is greater, its because of the psychological trauma that the external suffering creates.

But compared, for example, with living in Russia between 1917 and 1955 for example, when tens of millions were slaughtered and died, and families devastated and destroyed for generations, etc, well, the comparison doesn't work. Or China any time up until the present, really, but during the cultural revolution, etc. And so on.

This is not to minimize the reality of the suffering many of our people are going through now, but I tend to feel like it was always going to be a difficult time and process, removing the wound that has been evil in the world.

So despite the suffering and difficulty, I see hope. And people need hope, and faith, that things can be so much better. Perhaps that's why Q exhorted the anons: we were chosen for this time. We must become a comfort to each other, and a source of hope and strength to those around us.

wwg1wga

Yeah, me too.

I think this is part of our burden to carry. It's painful and its difficult to observe the world and see so much suffering. (Spare a thought for someone like the POTUS, who has to carry knowledge of so much more than you or I do)

But with regards to the burden of knowing, with the suffering, I see it in a similar way to how I see the evil. The evil that we see all around us has just come into being in the recent years. It's always been there, but buried below the surface. From this perspective, the world isn't actually getting darker. It's actually getting lighter, because the darkness that was always there laying over everything like a black cloud, but hidden, is being exposed. It's coming to the surface, and the roots are being withered by that exposure.

Likewise, the suffering we see around us, it's not new in any way. In fact, comparatively, the sufferings we experience or see is by and large much less than what people have experienced in the past. If it is greater, its because of the psychological trauma that the external suffering creates.

But compared, for example, with living in Russia between 1917 and 1955 for example, when tens of millions were slaughtered and died, and families devastated and destroyed for generations, etc, well, the comparison doesn't work. Or China any time up until the present, really, but during the cultural revolution, etc. And so on.

This is not to minimize the reality of the suffering many of our people are going through now, but I tend to feel like it was always going to be a difficult time and process, removing the wound that has been evil in the world.

So despite the suffering and difficulty, I see hope. And people need hope, and faith, that things can be so much better. Perhaps that's why Q exhorted the anons: we were chosen for this time. We must become a comfort to each other, and a source of hope and strength to those around us.

wwg1wga