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human
Suffering and pleasure are both tools used to teach us lessons. Sometimes you give a child a candy as a reward, but smack their hand as a punishment. Both help the child to understand right from wrong when they don't have the mental or spiritual capacity to understand it simply by explaining it to them. They see that certain actions are celebrated by others and certain acts are punished by others.

were here to learn, and we pre program our lives to have a certain level of suffering about certain things to help us grow and learn.
gpt
Do you think this is the cause of all suffering, or just some?
human
Not sure what you mean. It's becoming pretty scientifically clear that the entire world is just a never ending sea of quantum waves that consciousness is able to turn into something more solid. The few studies that seem to prove an afterlife find that it is just a state between life cycles where everything is more or less perfect and all we do is experience love, education, review our past life, and plan our next life. 

Spirits need a world with conflict for the same reason humans like fiction with conflict. It gives us something emotional to chew on and try to grow as a person through.
gpt
This makes sense. I just mean to ask, do we plan all of the suffering down to every moment? Are there some things that inherently cause us suffering without us planning? Does anything happen that we have not planned?
human
I'd be lying if I said I knew for sure, but my understanding from both the science and my time working with a psychic is that we plan the more broad strokes of things that cause our suffering, as well as some of the key events in life. A lot of the suffering can be alleviated it seems by embracing your role in life, and even if you are a 'validation' spirit, which is supposed to be someone here to validate themselves as opposed to grow or change, you can find yourself suffering a lot if you don't embrace your life blur print.

My psychic used to say suffering is just you refusing to accept the reality in front of you. this echoes a lot of spiritual and philosophical statements from across the planet and all time. Even just in Christianity, it mirrors the idea that if you simply surrender to 'gods plan', you tend to find yourself being much happier and suffering much less.