Why life feels so hard? Perhaps, it is only our perception of it, and false expectations of what an ideal life looks like.
Thus we come back to perceptions, expectations and therefore unrealized ‘needs’.
If you have received a normal modern education then you know that you have the absolute right to have almost every desire fulfilled. That was how you were made. You cannot live without ‘it’.
But perhaps one can be trained into an alternative mind-set, because as we said before, self-control is part of a true education.
Self-Control and True Education
Only self-discipline creates real self-respect. Even the wildest jazz musician must have had rock-hard self-discipline and spent thousands of hours practising just to be able improvise and have absolute fluency on his instrument.
However to appreciate this requires training from the earliest age that ‘no’ very calmly, means ‘no’. This avoids 95% of the ‘needs’ which ruin lives.
This sounds very moralistic – it is meant to. Everyone’s mouth waters at the aroma of beautifully-cooked food – unless you know that it is highly poisonous. Then it stops even smelling good.
Why Life Feels So Hard?: Well, Life is a Challenge
Life is a challenge and one great challenge is not being able to fulfil all your expectations – especially if they are perfectly normal, reasonable and apparently attained by everyone else.
If accepting ‘deprivation’ cheerfully is your default from six months old then life is easy. Yes, enjoy life and relish it, but only that which is ultimately ‘good’ for you – for you. If you were not given it, it was not good for you.
But if you always got what you bawled for – life is going to be very tough and disappointing – even if you get everything.
‘But that is how I am made,’ is the reply. ‘Why did He make me with this impossible need?’ Some people are given greater challenges, others smaller. Expectations are usually the main problem.
Why Life Feels So Hard?: The Greatest Challenge
The greatest challenge is not being able to be like everyone else. Being childless is perhaps the best or worst example. The pain is over-powering.
Why me? Simple – because you have been given the extra task of being a source of strength to others by how you cope; the extra task of finding another means of fulfilling your talents; the extra task of using your freedom from child-care to do something great – even if apparently minor; the extra task of showing that all is for the best.
And yes, you do have a much harder life than the next person.
Why Life Feels So Hard?: Your Tough Occupation
And then? That is your job. You have no alternatives anyway. You can make the best of it – or spend your life moaning. Of which will you feel prouder?
Today may be almost too hard, but tomorrow you’ll manage better. We did not choose to be born and you have indeed been drafted into the toughest battle regiment.
Let (a very few) others be sympathetic to you, but you cannot afford to be soft on yourself. This is not being heartless; it is the best way to survive. Use your head – even while you look after your heart – it is the only healthy way.
We have to have this choice to use whatever you are given as an opportunity or ….. to become bitter and empty.
Why Life Feels So Hard?: There Is No Other Choice
The system is hard, for some incredibly hard, but given Sinai, there is no way out. And our attitude and perception control how we feel the pain and approach the guidance given at Sinai.
This very harshness of existence, the inexplicability, seems to have resulted, perplexingly for the atheist, in a visceral, ‘evolutionary’[!] need within humans to have a spiritual element within their lives.
In this lies the cause of the thousands of utterly fantastical and illogical religions, mythologies and superstitions which have plagued and supported mankind – from Stone Age tribes of a few hundred in the Amazon to billions across the world.
The Need for the Spiritual
The evolutionist explains this as a survival trait. An inner belief will enforce altruistic discipline and loyalty a thousand times more than force or bribery. The Jews simply say that it was created to make the recognition of the Almighty by all men easier.
And men indeed have created a plethora of faiths, all of which hide some illogicality. Some want to invent gods with various degrees of care and interference, others an indifferent or even malicious deity.
Some try to propose a cruel, vengeful god, an omniscient controller that cares not for that child, or the childless. They claim that, yes, there is an omnipotent being or creator but he must be an evil one. Just look at the incredible suffering and injustice of his system. Even if that purpose is our Freewill, why should the child suffer? What a system to create!
Why Not a Cruel God?
Well, you simply cannot posit this for the Jews. You cannot logically suggest that the Deity whom the Jews witnessed must be ‘bad’ or indifferent.
If such an evil entity exists and had meant evil, then why should it provide the Jews with a religion or ‘philosophy’ which is a perfect guide to weather the intended senseless suffering with equanimity? Why give such a happy and rich life to those ‘stupid’ enough to believe and follow completely the religious way of life?
Further, the more they believe in the system the more immune they are from its ‘vicious’ consequences. And this pretty stupid evil god certainly would not actually provide The Book supplying their ‘superstitious nonsense’. No torturer administers anesthetics before proceeding – only a healer.
Faith as Protection
Obviously, as below, this applies not only to Judaism but equally to faith religions in which the incredible power of ‘faith’ ensures that the faithful – especially martyrs – avoid mental pain.
Within this debate, obviously, it is not only the Jews who are ‘falsely’ insulated against life’s knocks – but all those living in any version of that which atheism calls a fool’s paradise. Everyone is protected mentally provided that he has perfect faith in his version of the Great Yellow Jabberwocky.
This would work whether Jabberwocky Theology was sound or not. Again this does not affect our argument. No cruel god would allow a world in which his victims are protected by un-evidenced nonsense about even the Jabberwocky. No ‘evil’, indifferent deity would allow even fools to be so shielded.
The Scientists’ Deity of the Constants
But, as we have discussed, even puny man has now discovered, to his horror, that the universal physical constants do need ‘constant’ tweaking or we would all have gone poof millions of times.
Paul Dirac undermined all of today’s ideas on constants. He has therefore been lauded as a genius and the real implications of his work ignored. But slowly it is being admitted that Dirac’s constant conundrum needs answering – as it leaves all science and particularly physics hanging over an abyss with no sky hook.
Nothing makes any sense anymore, as Feynman had predicted. Not only should we not be here, we should not have been hanging around either.
Dirac, a firm atheist, knew he had found the need for ‘something’ to keep those pesky constants updated. He proved they had to be constantly changing and minutely synchronising.
But that is impossible because it needs a constantly changing algorithm controlled by what? He did not ask, ‘by Whom?’ That much common sense he had.
The Need for Constant Involvement
As discussed, those clever scientists have thus practically proved the need for the Deity by any other name by proving the ‘impossibility of existence’ without such an ‘unknown’.
In other words, we can accept the existence of Something or rather something only if this is needed by Science!
Fine. I can handle that (without laughing in your face). But that this unknown is some non-intelligent, infinitely variable force disinterested in the world – whilst keeping it going to an unfathomable level of perpetual fine tuning is ridiculous.
The immaturity, illogicality and subjectivity of that suggestion beats any fantasist’s claims.
‘Yes, teacher’s in the playground – but he doesn’t care what we do. Yippee!’ And you are asking a religious Jew to accept the ‘unknown’ even though you cannot disprove Real Judaism’s judicially perfect narrative. Come on! You are playing semantics because you have lost your constant constants.
The Logical Conclusion: The Intelligent Designer
No, bad luck, in pure science, we now scientifically need to re-define the scientists’ ‘unknown’ every split second. The system needs recalibrating and revitalising continuously or else it stops, dead.
The ‘constants’ are not constantly constant – they are being constantly changed as the universe exists and, allegedly, expands. The greatest scientists say that existence is impossible not only in its inception but also in its continuing – because all the 200 to 300 constants relied upon are now being questioned as constants – and especially that which ‘fine-tunes’ everything – called ‘alpha’. This impinges on every atom in the universe – including you.
So, if you accepted a Creator, He must have been ‘clever’ enough to make a world with no batteries ever to run down. But now the universe’s own laws seem to force inconstancy across the board, in a totally quantum, random, way. As before, what or Who is holding this together?
If, now, you still argue for a Creator who set up the brilliant system but could not quite manage getting those constants constant – I give up. Obviously, He created the universe precisely with random, changing constants – to show us that He wanted to be and is constantly involved. That is the proof. The universe speaks His presence.
Making The Right, Logical Choice
It is this ‘impossibility’ element that piles inexplicability – the existence of universe – on inexplicability – the existence of Life – on inexplicability – the inconstant constants – on inexplicability – you reading this as a Jew. Against our judicial proof you cannot intelligently say, ‘Well, we’re here – so it must just be chance – well – good – in’it’.
Of course, there are as many other theories as there are brilliant minds trying to wriggle out of Sinai. But we are concentrating on the concept of legally acceptable evidence and proof. None I have heard are more than desperate suppositions compared to our proof beyond any reasonable doubt.
So, both evidentially and logically, we are left with either no god or an all-loving, omniscient, constantly-involved Creator.
This is the logical and honest Jew’s dilemma. He cannot simply ignore Judaism because his father told him that his father had told him that … That is human testimony in each generation beyond any reasonable doubt. It is unreasonable not to accept this. Sinai happened judicially. Period.
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