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🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Kaytown and on this edition of Mysterious Radio. Oh, So I met Nigel 30 years ago and I met him through a mutual friend and I was always talking to |
0:39.8 | this friend about various philosophical things and about the nature of God and all kinds of things. |
0:47.0 | And I always used to have this problem trying to understand how there could be a God, blood suffering in the world at the same time. |
0:54.8 | And it just didn't make sense |
0:56.2 | that if there was a loving God, |
0:57.6 | there would be so much suffering. |
0:59.0 | It just seemed crazy to me |
1:01.0 | with all these stories from the major religions that say God created us and |
1:05.0 | put us here and then I was thinking well he's going to create us put us in suffering and |
1:08.9 | then watch the fun rather than leave us in the state of perfection. |
1:12.8 | And I could never understand this. |
1:14.0 | It was a big problem for me. |
1:15.6 | So my friend said to me, okay, you should meet my friend, |
1:18.1 | Nigel, because he's got some really interesting ideas |
1:22.1 | about all of this. and so I met Nigel, went to see him |
1:26.4 | few weeks later and he explained his notion, his concept of what God might be and the reason why we might be here and he |
1:35.8 | suggested that God was a state of absolute perfection and perfect freedom and that |
1:41.7 | in that state of perfection there's also the perfect freedom to no longer be |
1:45.8 | perfectly free and to be restricted and that our existence in this physical state |
1:51.8 | subject to all kinds of problems and suffering is part of a choice |
1:56.0 | that we made ourselves to explore difference and separation. |
2:00.4 | And that kind of made sense to me. |
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