It is clear that Philosophy leads Boethius’ through a series of steps that point to a real happiness in seeking God, and attempts to answer the question of bad things happening to good people.
"It is no wonder," Philosophy answered, "that a situation should seem random and confused when its principle of order is not understood. But, although you do not know why things are as they are, still you cannot doubt that in a world ruled by a good Governor all things do happen justly." (Book IV, Prose 5, p. 80)
This is, of course, often the lament when the just are hit with tragedy. I’ve not gotten fully into Philosophy’s answers yet, but am dwelling upon the necessity of believing in a more spiritual life beyond our earthly one. And, in whatever form a God exists, whatever form a life beyond would exist.
In the dark of the garage, my mind wanders. Are children in fact the soul of man, the only real way in which we live on beyond our own lifespan? This would seem in contradiction to our individual soul, but there is contradiction in the words of God as written in the Bible as well. "Be fruitful and multiply" can be taken as man’s purpose, and thus one way to endure. I wondered if we in fact would commit a suicide of the soul if we were not to procreate.And yet, the celibacy as practiced and espoused by Jesus Christ would go against that doctrine. Mixed messages then that do not bear out this theory. Obviously too, all life reproduces itself, but even man as the highest form of life–if we consider reasoning to represent the highest form of life–but cannot create life from nothing.
Just rambling here, trying to use some form of logic to arrive at some common ground to face Philosophy ahead.
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