Good understanding there about changing your focus and changing your life.
Good and Evil exist outside the mind.
They are very much absolutes.
However, the bible, which we get much of our understandings of good and evil has been edited and abridged and often changed by evil people.
Evil destroys. Evil hurts.
Not like, for instance a knife, which can be used to make dinner, or hurt someone.
Evil always hurts you and the world. Forever in a downward spiral.
Corruption is a sign of evil. Like rust it grows and destroys.
Ever tearing down, never building up.
Trying to force your will on someone else is evil.
Evil is quite easy to see, but we do not specifically use the word. We generically throw it around, and thus have obscured its meaning.
Like taking a person in an underwater cave, and violently shaking them around. Sure they do not know which way is up, but there is definitely an up and a down. And it is important for humanity that we again learn what is up and down, or we will all perish.
The problem I have with the whole good and evil thing is that what is good for one may be bad for another.
Kind of a live and let live type of guy for the most part.
What you speak of, I would call good and bad, or more specifically good for you or bad for you.
I know it may seem like a semantic difference, but Evil is always destructive.
The terms good and evil have been mixed up with good and bad.
Evil today is just a handy term for describing someone who you think is bad, with added emphasis.
But, evil is a real thing. And this current watering down of the term is what people who are practising evil have been trying to do.
One thing you all would consider evil would be these child sex trafficking rings.
What paedos are doing is evil. I would consider this a small evil compared to the world-wide human destructive plans that are going about today.
Take for instance the UN's description of human rights, which include the provision that they may be revoked. That is plain evil written to sound all nice, except for that one gotcha.
interesting, what you refer in the middle is entropy, ie the constant degradation, there is also the regression to the mean, the so called crab mentality, where crabs pull the others down, just to keep the status quo :), heey it's in the whitepaper, we like crab mentality :) I hope people learn I was going to say that yes, perspective is one thing but saying evil is good isn't yeah good, for anybody, you are belittling what you are supposed to not fall down to,
@klye hedonism is having fun and pleasure for your own :)
But yeah I like the fact you got over it so quickly, I was going to send you some material, but I'm not sure how much my "philosophy" helps, I tend to float towards live and let live too, but stupidity is what it is, and saying it's great for people watching them bang their heads against the same wall for years, is yeah depressing for me and sad, so it doesn't matter how happy I am when everybody around me is slowly dying, funny how life goes, you have 20 years to start up 50 to go and another 20 to dig a hole :) at best :D still sad shouldn't be so lame
my 2 cents, I'm outa here Cheers mate :) Vote klye, I haven't :) but I've only voted 5 people and still taking my time with the trust thing :D
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