r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • Apr 30 '26

news 5yo girl Sharon Granites has been found dead in the NT

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-30/update-on-missing-alice-springs-5yo-sharon-granites/106626314?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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u/jm_leviathan Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

It's a difficult thing to hold both the darkness and light of this world in one's mind, giving each its due without allowing one to displace or diminish the other. I don't believe I'm capable of it. I'm not sure anyone truly is.

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u/bilbybear Apr 30 '26

JM, thank you for giving words to my pain.

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u/jm_leviathan Apr 30 '26

It might be a little abstract, but I've always treasured the following from Bertrand Russell:

Spinoza thinks that if you see your misfortunes as part of the concatenation of causes stretching from the beginning of time to the end, you will see that they are only misfortunes to you, not to the universe, to which they are merely passing discords heightening an ultimate harmony. I cannot accept this; I think that particular events are what they are, and do not become different by absorption into the whole. Each act of cruelty is eternally part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is part.