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I appreciate the links Xian, they help me understand how you cherry pick them and misunderstand Buddhism. The conclusion of the one about a perfect world is right there at the bottom. It has the heading “CONCLUSION”.

Dare to try a grand experiment.  Allow yourself to see the world as perfect the way it is.  Imagine that it may be an orchestration of the grace the Creator in order to help us wake up and learn important lessons and have certain experiences. — Dr. Wilson

It’s saying you can control how you see the world. You can imagine whatever you want. I don’t particularly care for the “learn lessons” theme either or the “Creator” stuff, but it works fine for some. I like an image of everything sailing towards nothing, a sort of meteor of color and light heading into the void. As it hits each successive moment I play a tiny part in creating what is left behind. We’re constantly at the point where time doesn’t exist and never will and we meet that from within our time bound perspective. But that’s just me, I digress.

It doesn’t even say what you claim it does, about choosing between sickness and health. It says this;

This means that, in truth, no situation is necessarily better than another.  It is simply a different variety of experience. — Dr Wilson

I couldn’t find the thing you put in quotes. I’m guessing it came from you. The real_self link didn’t work. I don’t know where you get that pretty much everyone would rather be sick. That sounds like something a psychologist would have a code for, a diagnosis of a disorder. Sounds like someone who has the option to lie around and have nurses wait on him all day.

Instead, I found the above. The first part is what you keep saying, nothing is better than anything else. But you take that as bad, something to justify you not being happy. You use bad logic that happiness doesn’t really exist. The second part says there a variety of experiences. That’s Buddhism. Buddhism doesn’t say experiences don’t exist, it just says to not get attached to one kind of experience over another. Let them go, and you’ll end up being happy and content more often.