Why does evil exist if God loves us?

Okay, here I am...I think I'm ready (if I'm not....let's not consider the alternative actually, the consequences are too great ugh). I think I can answer the ultimate skeptic question...
                "If your God is so great, why is there suffering in this world?"

        No, I'm not going to say that God works in mysterious ways; he doesn't. God is very very clear about everything he does...Heck, he gave us a book with 27 sub-sections that're totally open to analysis! Anyway....so if God doesn't work in mysterious ways then why does suffering exist?
          Why are some babies born dead? Why do some people find out that they have cancer when they're planning for their weddings? Why are millions of people around the world living under the poverty line while Kim Kardashian spends 21 thousand dollars on a facial (that could be gossip, but we all know that the woman isn't really known for her frugality....not that I hate her actually- she's just a poor, misunderstood, attention-seeking soul)? Would God really let something like that happen?

        It's seems like a paradox. God loves us- God is love, but he still allows us to suffer. But it's Life is about experiences and learning.
not....it's not a dichotomy, it's actually really simple. It's what I've been bleating about all this time,
      It's just like parents and letting their kids go. We all know that if our parents had it their way, we'd all be at home, and nothing bad with ever happen to their little baby (who just so happens to be a 37 year old with a job and partner now). If God was to let no sufferings come to us, then we'd have no experiences...we'd just be like those kids who never left home; except worse, because we won't even know what leaving home is.
       I should quote the Bible right about now, but I have an even better weapon- Dan Brown (yup he even gets to be in bold). Dan Brown is the ultimate skeptic, using really sharp cognitive reasoning to make anything sound doubtful and baseless.....aand I have, in his very words, what I've been trying to say! (I wrote this post solely for this quote...so I hope I was dramatic enough)

"Imagine you had an eight-year-old son…would you love him?”
           "Of course.”
"Would you let him skateboard?”
Chartrand did a double take. The camerlengo always seemed oddly “in touch” for a clergyman.                 “Yeah, I guess,” Chartrand said. “Sure, I’d let him skateboard, but I’d tell him to be careful.”
"So as this child’s father, you would give him some basic, good advice and then let him go off and make his own mistakes?”
         "I wouldn’t run behind him and mollycoddle him if that’s what you mean.”
"But what if he fell and skinned his knee?”
         "He would learn to be more careful.”
The camerlengo smiled. “So although you have the power to interfere and prevent your child’s pain, you would choose to show your love by letting him learn his own lessons?”
         "Of course. Pain is part of growing up. It’s how we learn.”
The camerlengo nodded. “Exactly.” "

-Dan Brown, Angels and Demons

              That really is something coming from a skeptic. God is real, God totally loves us, but He loves us with a fatherly, unselfish love. He loves us so much that He wants us to have the best time possible, and so He gave us the freedom of choice; choice of what we want to do even if He had the power to make us do anything He wanted. Isn't He great?

           As for the people under the poverty line...it was just a chance you know? Some people are sad because they don't have food, some are sad because they don't have friends....Everyone is sad in this world; for some people it's more obvious on the outside, for others, it's more on the inside. Besides, poverty is just another problem created by humankind...not God, and it's humankind that should fix it. If God had His way then no one would be richer than anyone else because He can't pick favorites among His children. 

      God is great, and that's why he lets us live; He hates to see us suffer, but he forces himself not to intervene unless we ask for it. He's the real liberal, loving parent.

To not care

Cyber-bullying, everyone knows about it, and it feels like everyone's talking about it. But I've never heard from someone who's actually been through it. The "victim".

      I found these on this website called the Cyber-Bullying Research Center where bullied teens can anonymously tell their stories (I, being a sucker for depressive stories, read every single one of them, but unfortunately the emotions did NOT overflow) :

A 13-year old girl from Virginia:

"When I still had AOL, this one guy asked me how I looked and wanted to know about my body and stuff and I just flat out told him leave me alone!!! I would have reported him but AOL wouldn't even let me block him without parental permission so he bullied me and stuff online when ever I got on. I felt horrible. That was over four years ago and I still remember every thing he said to me. Every exact word. I felt awful. I hated it. I wanted to tell my parents but I was afraid that they would never let me chat again and I know that's how a lot of other kids feel. It is a bad feeling knowing that people that don't know you are judging you”

                                                    I know that everyone would prefer for me to keep my mouth shut right now and not to talk about hoe this even relates to me. Truth is, it doesn’t. But I can’t, simple cannot, just sympathize with the victim right here. What was a 13-year-old doing on an AOL chatroom anyway? Its just not the place for a teenager, yes what the weird paedophile was wrong...But what was this girl trying to achieve? Chatrooms (They should really make chatrooms a word, its pretty annoying seeing that little red line under most of my words...besides everyones talking about chatrooms) are for adults, and when a person starts messaging you they expect you to be a 20-28 year old who just wants to have some fun, noty a pubertal (I’m guessing thats the adjective for puberty) 13 year old who was thrilled and probably thought that it was “badass” to get into site which only allows people above the age of 18.

Well actually i do remember when this sort of thing happened to me (i wasn't 13 but I was close-- 14 :p) That story was a bit ridiculous and really funny...Click here if you want to here my experience in a chat room :p

Someone who wishes to stay anonymous:

“I was on meds for mental issued and tried to commit suicide 7 times it does not help with the depression but what really pushed me so far was the fact that all the kids who were my ‘friends’found out and turned and started making fun of me for it was 11 and it never stopped all the way to senior year. Kids are cruel and they either don’t care or cant comprehend what their words can do to someone.”

Now this is a real case of cyber-bullying. I think what drives us all to the edge is the feeling that ‘everybody knows’ or the feeling of being all alone because everyone who we ever trusted in suddenly don’t trust us. The feeling of being alone and hated.

Here’s the logic: “If everyone I know hates me, then they’re probably right...there’s something wrong with me. I hate myself too.” (im not pretending to be an expert on all things cyber-bully, im just summarizing all that I’ve read and all the movies I watched-ok one movie I watched)

You'll notice that people who are cyber-bullied, they're people who care. Those people who absolutely love everyone around them. They would totally believe anything someone says about them. Because they see the best in people, its pretty hard for them to believe that people could just be saying things for the heck of it. I think these people think everyone is like them and actually mean what they are saying

 I know that this is a tough lesson: Say "I DONT CARE"  okay maybe its even impossible, I know how it feels to say that I don't care but not really mean it. But I also know the freedom of finally not giving damn of what anybody

#WhatPeopleDontRealize is that I don’t care if they don’t like me. I like me. CASE CLOSED.

That's what i tweeted yesterday and i felt really good, great actually, to really mean that.

*facepalm* I've taken a perfectly good topic and made it something about myself...anyway getting back to cyber-bullying :)

Are kids really "cruel"? Do they really mean what they're doing? No. Not at all.

I quote my movie (Cyber Bully-thats its name-blunt isn’t it?) ok I’m not quoting but paraphrasing (the words weren’t important enough for me to remember) when you are online saying something doesn’t seem real, you don’tt see the person so you udon’t see how they feel. You don’t actually feel like you’re talking.

                                         I think cyber-bullying is just horse-play that went too far..Maybe we can stop it by only teasing and playing with people we actually talk with in real life so we can have an idea or they can give us an idea of how they are feeling. Teasing a friend would never turn into bullying because you would know when you're going too far.

                                         Also if you are being cyber-bullied by someone, the best thing to do would be to just stand there and tell them, that in case they didn't know, what they say online actually hurts. Don't worry, it just takes one match to light a fire, the moment you stand up to your bully, many many others who are also being bullied will stand up. Because everyone knows that you aren't the only one. (Im not talking to "you"-u whoever "you" are specifically, Im just saying it like anyone else might say "one")

 well I finally got to my message! Someone gotta do it, and I think the best person would be ALL of us :)