Suffering

Mary Shelley strongly portrays the opinion that scientific progress in the extreme will result in suffering, when it passes beyond the bounds of what nature will allow. Humans are flawed creatures that will continue to do unnatural types of wrong and suffer for it. Everyone surrounding the criminal human will be also be negatively affected, and the society in its entirety will be subject to suffering at the hands of nature. Humans generally look for comfort in nature’s surroundings because deep…

be a Pastor-in-Residence at the Center for Christian Thought at Biola University. This would be an opportunity to explore the topic of “Suffering and the Good Life” with professors from all over the country. It would grow and expand my capacity to be with those who are walking through difficult season and help them discern how God might redeem their suffering for good. When I think about the work I do as a bereavement group facilitator, I think this experience would be…

says, “For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God”. There is a suffering common to man; we have a name for those things like natural disaster and cancer. Then there is the sort of suffering we endure because we worship the Lord, we are hated by many and most…

Women in Afghanistan are suffering because of their government's bias opinion to make men better than women. They are excluded from the education system. Because of it, most women have the lack of having a job/opportunites, to have more domestic violence, and everyday death would rain upon them as they walk upon earth each and everyday. Even for the children, most children would die before they even turn 5 years old. Due to lack of medical supplies and no knowledge. Women’s rights are all basic,…

understand why they are suffering. Cherry Valance, from S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, says, “Things are rough all over,” (122). That is a simple enough quote, but it has a deeper meaning. No matter who you are, you understand suffering and pain. There are groups of people who suffer more than others, but the idea is still the same. Some pain comes from deep down inside of us and isn’t caused by some outside force. There could be outside factors contributing to this suffering such as abuse,…

Caring for the human condition of suffering and pain has been a lifelong mission assigned to me by my grandmother, whose physical fragility and decline ignited the caregiver inside of me. It was her eyes that sparkled as she touched the family Bible or her crooked smiled at family members long since passed, that I knew suffering was only a temporary condition. This paper is a written declaration to the absence of suffering. It is the affirmation that suffering is the inability to see the…

it seems that no matter the background or belief of a character, they have to persevere through struggles that arise due to religious beliefs, the time period, and the corruption that seems to plague any human civilization. Within the trials, suffering can be inflicted on a character's mental state, emotional state, and physical state. It was Arthur Miller's environment filled with fear that invoked him to write a play that encompassed the pain felt by the innocent and the rewards that were…

DHS (Department of Human Suffering) We all have times in our lives where we needed help. DHS provides wonderful support but you better believe you are going to have to work for it. The stress of this process is one I hope many of you never experience. You would imagine someone working with the public would be compassionate, humane, and sympathetic. Maybe they would have a few guidelines and a set of expectations for the applicants to follow. I would think they would have a set of standards they…

Happy endings are what one secretly hopes for every time they read a story. However, tragedies will never abide to this hope. Tragedies will always have despair and pity in them. Antigone, written by Sophocles, is no exception to this. Aristotle believes there are certain elements that can make a tragedy “perfect”. Some of the elements are: despair and serious implications, a tragic hero, and reversal and recognition of the plot. Aristotle says “a tragedy is a process of imitating an…

Suffering: The Odyssey of Humans Suffering is an intimate part of mortality; something that adds to the human experience and something the gods cannot understand. It is something that pushes humans to be better. The realization that mortal life is short can make it more meaningful and can make one understand what is truly important. Through Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus demonstrates that virtue can be acquired through tribulation and that sometimes one must endure to gain what is…