Re: I guess this is where I end up............

want2believe wrote:

I would be interested if you could explain this one more.. ie: how does
it fit with why bad things happen to good people, etc.

Because they *happen*.

Etymology: Middle English, from hap
1 : to occur by chance -- often used with it <it so happens I'm going your way>

Another possibility to view this "problem" is to think about what constitutes good things, bad things, good people and bad people and whether anything would *happen* (whether any apparent "interaction" or "exchange" would take place) at all weren't it for these qualifiers.

If you draw a square in the soil. Things can "happen" on that square. Things can "happen" on that square that don't happen outside the square etc. If you draw a grid things can happen to one square of the grid and not to others. Same thing with the concept "happen". Compare one situation with another and the difference is what "happens".

See also our Advaitan fellow-seeker Vivekananda:

"Q. But still one has to admit that God is also in the sin!
Swamiji: You see, there are, in reality, no such different things as
good and evil. They are mere conventional terms. The same thing we call
bad, and again another time we call good, according to the way we make
use of it. Take for example this lamplight ; because of its burning, we
are able to see and do various works of utility ; this is one mode of
using the light. Again, if you put your fingers in it, they will be
burnt ; that is another mode of using the same light. So we should know
that a thing becomes good or bad according to the way we use it.
Similarly with virtue and vice. Broadly speaking, the proper use of any
of the faculties of our mind and body is termed virtue, and its improper
application or waste is called vice." - Vivekananda-
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