No soul in their right mind would want to experience the following:
1. War
2. Rape
3. Brutality
4. Torture / abuse
5. Emotional anguish
6. Discrimination
7. Failure
8. Loneliness.
It's ok, I'll pass. I don't think it's necessary for me to experience all of these things to gain enlightenment. In fact, I don't want to be that enlightened anyway. I just want a peaceful, easy life. Asking too much?
Jim78 asks a very legitimate question. I've been thinking about this recently too. What's the point of all this "need to experience everything" business? No soul in their right mind would want to experience losing a limb, getting disease, hunger, abuse, etc....
Apparently, you must not be in your right mind. Why? Logically speaking, you are here, along with the rest of us out-of-our-right-minds souls. If you don't know why you find yourself in this world of war, rape, brutality, torture, abuse, emotional anguish, failure, loneliness, etc., you have better get to it, and find out quickly. Otherwise you will be making another visit back here, very soon. But you need to ask yourself a question before you will find your way. And finding the right answer to the question is your only way of knowing why in "hell" you are here. I use the pun of hell, because you only see yourself surrounded by hellish conditions, and have ignored the heavenly conditions; peace, charity, caresses, laughter, success, friendship, love, companionship, compassion, etc. Life here on earth is a matter of balance. Therefore it is a question of Balance. I heard it said that, "we do not know what we have until we lose it." Think about that for a good while! Are you looking for someone to tell you what you are doing here? Well, it's a miracle you are looking for, because only God knows anything 100%. And as far as I know, He is the Only ONE that can do miracles. Knock and it shall be opened...eventually. But not before you are able to answer a thousand million questions.
Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war?
'Cause when we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need
In a world of persecution
That is burning in its greed
Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door?
Because the truth is hard to swallow
That's what the war of love is for
It's not the way that you say it
When you do those things to me
It's more the way that you mean it
When you tell me what will be
And when you stop and think about it
You won't believe it's true
That all the love you've been giving
Has all been meant for you
I'm looking for someone to change my life
I'm looking for a miracle in my life
And if you could see what it's done to me
To lose the love I knew
Could safely lead me through
Between the silence of the mountains
And the crashing of the sea
There lies a land I once lived in
And she's waiting there for me
But in the grey of the morning
My mind becomes confused
Between the dead and the sleeping
And the road that I must choose
I'm looking for someone to change my life
I'm looking for a miracle in my life
And if you could see what it's done to me
To lose the love I knew
Could safely lead me to
The land that I once knew
To learn as we grow old
The secrets of our soul
Don't be baffled, take a look around yourself...what do you see besides the negatives you have pointed out? But remember that the TRUTH is hard to swallow!