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noah2di User ID: 28919047 United States 12/02/2012 11:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Most of the time evil is depicted as the devil or in a scary movie, what people fail to realize, evil is around us all day, every day. It's human nature to think or maybe even do evil. Our drive in us tells us to "get up the company ladder", pass that test, or don't get caught... As long as you realize the evil around you, you will be fine. There is no clear definition for evil, otherwise it will have been easily avoided. |
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David Fap User ID: 28627496 Canada 12/02/2012 12:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 'Evil' is simply a constantly changing parameter as to what is not acceptable in a certain culture in a certain moment of time. Proof? Slavery in the US. It was once common and a status symbol to have a few. Now, it is considered a hideous and dark chapter in the past. More proof? The Holocaust. At the time, the Nazis did not consider it evil at all and thought they were doing a good thing. Yet, the rest of the fairly honorable German Army, had they known, would have considered it evil. Same country, same time period yet two subcultures (Army vs. Nazis) completely different opinions of what 'evil' was. Last Edited by David Fap on 12/02/2012 12:51 PM |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 28923050 Canada 12/02/2012 01:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Evil is the absence of good and the only good is GOD. So, with the absence of GOD we see more and more evil. That really is the gist of things. Jesus stated He came to divide and so the world is divided and what is it divided on? Whether or not He exists. The day will come when this debate will indeed come to an end and every knee will bow to Him. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 31009818 United States 12/28/2012 06:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. "These are Forces, which in effect, are purifiers, you see. These are those, which clear the way for the creation of that which can bring about harmony. "Here we begin at a point where there are two brothers, so to say: One is the Light and one is the Darkness. These brothers love their Father without limit, beyond reservation or any such. Their love is complete. Both are of pure intent unto God. "The 'forces of destruction' or the forces of opposition are creations of consciousness in Earth, or in the minds called human or finite. Those minds, which are unlimited or infinite, have no sense of the description of destruction, as you call this. A Force of God cannot de-struct or de-structure that which is created of God. There is naught which can do this." |
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Johnny Be Good User ID: 31010024 United Kingdom 12/28/2012 06:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Robert M. Pirsig has written two books on Quality; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; An Inquiry into Morals and Lila; An Inquiry into Values. In Lila, he outlines what he calls the Metaphysics of Quality, or Metaphysics of Value, in which the universe is composed of only Quality. However, when we begin to view the universe as only Quality, troubling aspects begin cropping up concerning the role of the concepts of Good and Evil, probably because of the way we have learned to "agree" on what these concepts are in the first place. (See Pragmatism, Precession and the Metaphysics of Quality , a previous paper. We can define evil in many ways, but always it is in seeming opposition to the good. Can we say evil exists as itself only? For example, one of the ways we normally define evil is by equating it to the death of the biological entity. This would seem the ultimate evil, the opposite of life. What we must ask first, however, is just what is this thing we call death? Is death in itself inherently evil? We know that if we live, death is necessary, but do we then automatically know that evil is also necessary? In Lila, Pirsig may have touched on an answer in Chap. 29: If you eliminate suffering from this world you eliminate life. There's no evolution. Those species that don't suffer don't survive. Suffering is the negative face of Quality that drives the whole process. All these battles between patterns of evolution go on within suffering individuals like Lila. Pirsig explores the nature of evil by following the dark thoughts of a woman named Lila as she stumbles her way through the nightmare-side of reality. If we look upon suffering as evil, then evil will always be with us. But by looking at suffering as the negative side of the face of Quality, then it becomes a matter of defining just what "evil" really is. Is death the ultimate evil? Death is the apparent end of suffering, the end of evil if you will. Death is the absence of life, but life is not the absence of death. It would seem then that death cannot be considered at all in any manner. It may indeed be a perceived evil, or a lack of life-force, but it is this very lack which prevents further analysis. Death is a moot point for the living. If death is not evil, how about suffering? Certainly suffering is normally thought of as an evil thing. Yet according to the Metaphysics of Quality, those who do not suffer, do not survive. It is suffering that drives evolution. Suffering is the negative face of Quality, but that doesn't mean it's evil as opposed to good, the positive side of Quality. The Metaphysics of Quality makes it clear that suffering is a drive to Dynamic freedom, and without it, static patterns of value would simply grow old and die.................cont [link to members.tripod.com] Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. |
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