Is there a "spirit of what if"?

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AdamP88

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You know sometimes in life when you’re hit with a feeling that if you’d done x differently or taken advantage of y opportunity, that life would be much better and you’d be happier?
I know everyone feels this at some stage in little ways but you usually shake it quite quickly.
But then other times, for no particular reason, you feel it very strongly, and seem to dwell on the fact that you missed certain opportunities, even though you’re happy in life and your rational mind tells you it’s stupid.

Does anyone believe this is sometimes a demon/spirit imposing certain emotions on you?
 
Yes, it is called free will going hand in hand with what we may perceive as predestination.
 
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You know sometimes in life when you’re hit with a feeling that if you’d done x differently or taken advantage of y opportunity, that life would be much better and you’d be happier?
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Things would have different and that’s all you know, the rest you imagine and by so doing it can make you feel unhappy 😞

It may be your guardian angel is reminding you so that you might consider it and learn from it in hindsight, that’s possible.

But as I said, things would have been different…that’s all you know.

If ifs and ands were pots and pans we’d have no need for tinkers.
 
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I think that we are supposed to be satisfied that our choices though they may have been awful are what god willed to happen permissively. Nothing happens unless God wills it and one day in the future when we have passed from this world we will see why what we and others did was actually crucial for making the eternal kingdom of God as perfect as it can possibly be.

Julian of Norwich said this: deeds are done which appear so evil to us and people suffer such terrible evils that it does not seem as though any good will ever come of them; and we consider this, sorrowing and grieving over it so that we cannot find peace in the blessed contemplation of God as we should do; and this is why: our reasoning powers are so blind now, so humble and so simple, that we cannot know the high, marvelous wisdom, the might and the goodness of the Holy Trinity. And this is what he means where he says, ‘You shall see for yourself that all manner of things shall be well’, as if he said, 'Pay attention to this now, faithfully and confidently, and at the end of time you will truly see it in the fullness of joy.”
 
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AdamP88 said:
You know sometimes in life when you’re hit with a feeling that if you’d done x differently or taken advantage of y opportunity, that life would be much better and you’d be happier?
I know everyone feels this at some stage in little ways but you usually shake it quite quickly.
But then other times, for no particular reason, you feel it very strongly, and seem to dwell on the fact that you missed certain opportunities, even though you’re happy in life and your rational mind tells you it’s stupid.

Does anyone believe this is sometimes a demon/spirit imposing certain emotions on you?
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Its the basis of concupiscence, that feeling that we’re deprived, that the grass is always greener, that some thing out there might make us happier than we are now. Some greater amount of pleasure or wealth or possessions or self-glory.

I think when we get down to it, this was the sin of Adam. Regardless of how much he had, maybe God was depriving him of something, maybe he didn’t need God, shouldn’t trust Him. Be smart, don’t be a fool, don’t be so easily satisfied. So we continue to idolize things, to put lesser, created things above God.
 
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