The problem of evil in the world is really something hard for so many people to wrap their heads around.
The suffering that schizophrenics, including myself, go through is unreal.
I found some help in the doctrine of rebirth and the idea that the universe doesn’t willingly afflick us. Rather sickness and suffering come that we may learn lessons the we would not or could not learn in any other way.
How do you explain 3rd world slums? Is that sickness and suffering some kind of just, deserved punishment by some omnipotent ahole judge in the sky? Of course not, because there is no such thing as divine justice and sickness and suffering is random.
Suffering happens to all both for good and evil people. Everyone will be tested in this world just like exams, we need to remain strong during adversaries.
Best is not respond to it. If its a tv channel we change channel instantly using remote. Here we need to not respond to it, let it bark but not pay attention to it, most important thing is not respond to it and if do that it gets stronger.
I think the content of voices depend upon your state of mind, if you remain kind, not hold anger to any, do pleasant things etc then the voices can become kind too. Try it for a week, manually try your best to remain calm, meditate etc.
@pr21 I think this is a good hypothesis if not necessarily a true one; at least it’s worth a try for the sake of your own peace and state of mind. Thank you for your thoughtful comments here.