How do you cope with all the suffering in the world?

[MarkKol]

I want the absolute highest-truth answer. It's hard for me to look at children in Yemen, Gaza, and Sudan and cope with the suffering they're going through.

I know it's unnecessary and largely a result of corruption.

But I wanna know, does their suffering matter at all? When they die, will it be like they never existed?

Based on my paradigm of skimming reality, I tend to reduce it all to: if it's human-made, then it probably doesn't exist. I apply that to ideology, religion, and human ideas.

If it hasn't existed forever and was invented at some point in history, i.e., Christianity or Islam, then it can't possibly be real, because absolute truth should be permanent and infinite; truth can't be invented or added to, it can't have a time and place. Therefore, nothing human or human-made is true.

I'm having issues applying my usual thinking in this scenario because I feel so bad for them suffering in such extreme pain right now.

I don't feel bad seeing how my own stupidity costs me or others, but when I see children without hands, with burn marks, and malnutrition, I can't help but cry.

Edited yesterday at 12:59 AM by MarkKol

[Toranvor]

The only being that suffers is You.

[Hojo]

Nothing is happening, whenever you look at something and think that something is happening its you making it up.

A child could get blown up in your face and its body matter could spread all over your body and nothing would be happening, still.

The stillness of reality is forever a constant.

Reality has already reached its maximum entropy and its behind your eyes.

If you actually cared you would make it your life mission to go help them.

This is selfish empathy. Using it to hurt yourself.

What if you suffering for them made them suffer more, would you do it? Cause it does you suffering creates them suffering as an idea or concept. Your ideas or concepts are real and hurt you (God). Your empathy for those children hurt yourself as God who is sitting at the heat death of the universe.

Edited 23 hours ago by Hojo

[integration journey]

2 hours ago, MarkKol said:

want the absolute highest-truth answer. It's hard for me to look at children in Yemen, Gaza, and Sudan and cope with the suffering they're going through.

You forgot Syria. 
and to answer the question by being grateful for my own life and try to give back in any way I can. Also by being positive and proactive.  Easier said than done though. 

[Carl-Richard]

Aim high.

[caspex]

There's no dignity in using spiritual truths to justify your selfishness. It's better to accept that you are a selfish prick who won't do too much about it. Will you go out there and dedicate your entire life to saving those children? Probably not. If that's your life purpose, good, you are more selfless than most. Accept that too.

Accept that people suffer. A blue rose grows, flowers and wilts in a valley no human ever visited. Nobody experienced the beauty of that blue rose, its petals or its smell. Was the existence of that blue rose worthless? No. Just existing is infinitely meaningful. That suffering of those people is just like that blue rose. Does it matter? Yes because it happened. Accept that.

[Ramasta9]

One of the greatest things we can do in life is work on purifying ourselves, softening our egos, cleansing our hearts and minds, living an active and healthy lifestyle closer to nature and or a more natural way of living, so then you are like an open vessel for the divine hand to come through and help those in need, that hand and mind of God is what the world needs, and naturally solutions will arise within you, and so the best way you can help the world is to help and heal yourself first and foremost, then you will have the energy and charge to make a change for all those who come across your path and beyond.

The reality outside of us, is also within us, so when we change and purify from within, the outer reality will naturally reflect that more and more, and as we shift our vibration, the reality of matching frequency must appear by universal law.

As above, so below.

As within, so without. 

As the soul, so the universe.

 

Edited 20 hours ago by Ramasta9

[gettoefl]

Was it in the news or in the nows.

If the first it is plain lies.

If second, when are you going to step up?

To veer to the highest truth, you need only heal one other to heal the world.

Try it.

As Janet Jackson put it, what have you done for me lately?

[LordFall]

Well the good thing is it seems that our civilization is integrating itself and global world peace through monopoly force will be achieved within the next 20 years.

Until then you can help accelerate the process. Are you working or volunteering on anything charitable? There's all kinds of suffering in reality, I myself work on helping creatives figuring out a viable career path for themselves. I want to get into food charities though because with automated farming I think we could solve world hunger quite soon as well. 

[yetineti]

Suffering is an imaginary problem created by imaginary beings living dream lives who have something to lose.

Want to reduce suffering now?!—have nothing to lose!

[Lila9]

By kindness, compassion, and generosity. See who needs help, how you can contribute, and how to get out of yourself. Think about where you can volunteer, who you can help, and how you can improve someone's life. If we all thought like this, it would reduce unnecessary suffering in the world by 90%.