The obligatory picking-on-David-Brooks post

[mmcirvin]

While atheism is often not comforting, one of the small consolations is that you are completely freed from problems of theodicy (unless, I suppose, you still believe in karma, which I don't). I suppose that in response to David Brooks' plea for sympathy now that the Indian Ocean earthquake has disillusioned him about cosmic justice, my heart goes out to him. But I find it more salutary to meditate on the fact that if transcendental agencies and universal laws aren't looking out for us, it's up to us to do so.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

The first time i read "There's no justice, there's just us," i thought it was pretty cool. It's been abused ever since, though. And yet, it seems appropriate here.

[jwgh]

The story about the tsunami is not about acts of charity or how if we work together we can make the world a better place. It is about all the dead and suffering people, and is also about me, because, man, the world sucks and stuff.