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How can I escape this awful, gloomy place that I'm so deeply set in? I have everything, I'm a medical student and this is what I've wanted to do since forever, my family is wealthy, I have all the support I need, there's nothing missing from my life

And yet it all still feels so empty and insipid. I feel vacant inside and I don't know if this is how I'll be forever. I would much rather die if that is the case.

I seem to be trapped in a hamster wheel, always looking for the next thing that'll make me happy and fulfilled.. this was the case with medical school, getting a girlfriend, etc., but it's always the same, when I attain said thing, I feel a vague sense of accomplishment followed by a realization that I'm still empty handed. This has been my entire life, rinse and repeat.

I don't know how to break out of this. I just want to feel content, fulfilled, and not like I have a void inside of me.

>>17902281
>devoting yourself to God doesn't absolve you of consequences
Not at all, but there are times where obedience to God is more important than morality (teleological suspension to use kirkegaard). The moral schema of karma is too reductionist in light of obedience; Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son and many ascetics have refused to offer their aid to people in harms way because of their reclusive vocation. To personalize the schema of will is a form of disobedience, giving yourself too much authority opposed to the onlu singular will that truly exists.

>>16979430
>2. How do Muslims answer the problem of evil without a God personally willing to suffer in the flesh for his creation? Again, I'm not sure there is a perfectly rational answer in the Christian tradition that explains why God allows suffering, but it seems very significant that God is not, as it were, merely an outside spectator to the evil in the world- he is willing to experience it himself in solidarity with us. The Muslim God strikes me as more distant from creation than the Christian God because of the lack of an Incarnation.
I don't really understand this point. God is all-knowing, he doesn't need to incarnate in the flesh to know what it is like to suffer. For your last point, in Islam there's a heavy emphasis on the beauty of God's creation as a reflection of Him, and this is less emphasized in Christianity except with the likes of Emerson. Christianity favours a maxim more like "This world is not your friend".
In which view above do you think God is seen as more distant from creation?

How can I escape this awful, gloomy place that I'm so deeply set in? I have everything, I'm a medical student and this is what I've wanted to do since forever, my family is wealthy, I have all the support I need, there's nothing missing from my life

And yet it all still feels so empty and insipid. I feel vacant inside and I don't know if this is how I'll be forever. I would much rather die if that is the case.

I seem to be trapped in a hamster wheel, always looking for the next thing that'll make me happy and fulfilled.. this was the case with medical school, getting a girlfriend, etc., but it's always the same, when I attain said thing, I feel a vague sense of accomplishment followed by a realization that I'm still empty handed. This has been my entire life, rinse and repeat.

I don't know how to break out of this. I just want to feel content, fulfilled, and not like I have a void inside of me.

>>13927544
>What's wrong with Eastern religions?
Literally nothing. If you're this upset over schismatic politics then I would advise you to read more Orthodox theology. The ancient church was not intended to latch onto platonic theology or scholasticism. The use of western materialist thought just creates political agendas. This is not to say that there are valid tenants in Catholicism and Prtoestantism, but they are based on a legalistic mindset which, in my opinion, was never meant to exist.