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Originally Posted by liveforfish
It is the cycle of life. It does work if you take emotion out of it. I know it hurts you so I'm not trying to discredit your feelings.
One animal eats another to keep the balance. Otherwise the animals would over populate and starve. Starving is a worse fate than being eaten by another animal.
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I appreciate seeing that others here ponder this troubling issue.
Maven, like you I don't find any explanation that sets my soul at ease. Somehow I think that pain seems to be necessary for there to be beauty. So I guess God, if there is one, chose to do what was necessary for there to be beauty. I suspect that, in order for there to be no pain, the universe would have to be made of nothing other than rock and gas. But, in the face of really hard pain, I always hear the theme of this thread, "Where is God?" As a child, I was taught that God cannot feel pain . . . that God is perfectly happy, always. Somehow I have to imagine God having some perception of tragedy. Otherwise God would seem shallow to me.