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 Swami
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I am a week mortal human, and still g(r)owing in every direction....
Lay off the all-you-can-eat buffets. 
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The proof is in the pudding.
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Sinbad
Living TheMoment
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 Re: What is Evil?  [Re: Swami]
#3770817 - 02/12/05 12:26 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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LOL!!!   
Thats so fuckin funny i almost fell off my seat! Nice one Swami 
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 OldWoodSpecter
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Re: What is Evil? [Re: spidercid]
#3770878 - 02/12/05 12:45 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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And what doesn't fall under human delusion?
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I descend upon your earth from the skies
I command your very souls you unbelievers
Bring before me what is mine
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Swami
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Chipmunk delusion. 
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The proof is in the pudding.
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Prosgeopax
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Quote:
psilocyberin said:
What are some things you think are evil?
 
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Money doesn't grow on trees, but deficits do grow under Bushes.
You can accept, reject, or examine and test any new idea that comes to you. The wise man chooses the third way.
- Tom Willhite
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Luminous Numinous
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What is evil? Below is the best answer to your question that you're going to find anywhere, GUARANTEED. Seriously...it's a GREAT question...one of the big ones. You'll find a great answer here: http://www.luminousnuminous.com/blog/?p=275
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Cognitive_Shift
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Was it evil of cain to kill abel?
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L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés et désirs
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Pandorok
Hu Man
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Evil cannot be defined. It is imaginative.
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PANDOROK
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Icelander
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Re: What is Evil? [Re: Pandorok]
#11877104 - 01/22/10 06:05 AM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.
" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.
With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Pandorok
Hu Man
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Quote:
Icelander said:Everything is then, imaginative.
This is true.
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soldatheero
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Re: What is Evil? [Re: Pandorok]
#11879380 - 01/22/10 02:23 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Here is an interesting understanding.
Quote:
"In the chapter on Good and Evil, Meher Baba takes a unique position. What we call evil, according to Meher Baba, is most often a misapplied relic of a past good. For instance, an act beneficial to a lower species in evolution becomes detrimental to the individual and society in a human cultural context. Similarly, the ego, which plays a vital role in the process of evolving self-awareness, becomes a spiritual hindrance once full awareness (in human form) is achieved. Still, Baba asserts that good actions (judged as good in their context) are preferable to so-called bad actions, in that they are far less binding to the soul. According to Baba, both good and bad actions are binding in the sense that they leave impressions (sanskaras) that must be worked out or balanced by ongoing experience in reincarnation. But even in this context, good actions are preferable and less binding. He gives the analogy that bad actions are like ropes that bind both feet and hands, but good actions bind only the feet, and thus can more easily be disentangled. This principle of evil being the relic of a past good, becoming bad in the wrong context, is repeated in his writing on the subject of war. A war may be deemed necessary, and thus not necessarily bad, when its use serves the greater good of the people (such as in repelling a significant unprovoked threat) as seen from the highest possible vantage point. However, Meher Baba says that war is generally the least creative means of resolving human conflict and is most often misguided. Also he points out that war is only a symptom, while the root cause of the problem is individual and collective egoism.
Meher Baba suggests that in the final analysis there is no such thing as bad in the sense that we conceive it, but rather there are more truly only degrees of good. Rather than categorizing actions in terms of good and bad (which are sometimes little more than societal conventions) Meher Baba divides actions into binding and unbinding, i.e., those actions that emancipate the soul from illusion (Maya) as opposed to those that further retard or thwart the soul's release from all bindings (sanskaras). Baba also makes a distinction between natural and non-natural impressions derived from natural and non-natural actions. Natural actions, such as marriage, are far less spiritually entangling and easier to process and balance than, for instance, promiscuity. Thus it is far more advantageous, from a spiritual point of view, to choose good and natural actions over less good and less natural ones."
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..and may the zelda theme song be with you at all times, amen.
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