> - Michaela

> Doug Laidlaw wrote:
>> Reading Erin's troubles with the presence of evil in the world, I
>> thought that the answer given by GROW (the Australian 12-step group
>> network, started by a Catholic priest) was worth repeating:

>> Most of us stopped asking that question long ago.  It stops us from
>> getting better.  It shifts the blame to God, and absolves us of the
>> responsibility of developing our characters to deal with it.

>> No answer.  Just don't ask the question.  Taoism as expressed in
> "The
>> Tao of Poh" is full of the same theme:  Don't ask unnecessary
>> questions.  Don't waste government money on research which increases
>> knowledge with no practical application.  Don't worry about "the
>> world" being evil, because the world is something you can't change.
>> Yourself, you can change (within limits, but pessimism isn't one of
>> them.)

>> Doug L.