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thedudenj
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Evil created god and good
#7477583 - 10/02/07 02:13 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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what if theres only evil and good was created by it so it has a toy and introduced god to have those people run around in idiocy,
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Re: Evil created god and good [Re: thedudenj]
#7477589 - 10/02/07 02:15 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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What if I really couldn't come up with a good topic for debate?
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Re: Evil created god and good [Re: Icelander]
#7477675 - 10/02/07 02:38 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Icelander said: What if I really couldn't come up with a good topic for debate?
Then I would say you need a better drug connection.
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Evil cannot create good because then evil would have good in it and it would not be evil. It's like saying what if there is light in darkness. They are mutually exclusive.
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jonathan_206 said: Evil cannot create good because then evil would have good in it and it would not be evil. It's like saying what if there is light in darkness. They are mutually exclusive.
What if there is no good. Have you ever encountered pure goodness?
I've had moments where I believed that all this was an illusion put on by the Devil; a giant test if you will, and he's betting on me to fail and be good. I hear it all the time, "We are Gods" (In the greatest spiritual sense), but what if we are Devils instead? A little yang for the yin.
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Re: Evil created god and good [Re: mikebart101]
#7477814 - 10/02/07 03:25 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Have you ever encountered pure goodness?
Frozen bananas dipped in dark chocolate and almonds.
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Re: Evil created god and good [Re: Icelander]
#7477833 - 10/02/07 03:30 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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the sadistic holistic...
http://www.outersecrets.com/real/7_relate.htm
a scary idea, rather not entertain it
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Gee, what fun. But what do you know (really) about the number 53? Nothing happens outside this number. The rest are dream symbols and fragments of lost memories from countless centuries of random acts.
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thedudenj
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Re: Evil created god and good [Re: Icelander]
#7478708 - 10/02/07 08:37 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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... i thought a bunch of asain people said theres light in dark and dark in light. can you really say pure darkness has no good in it? and as someone said maybe evil just had a bit of good in it all along or maybe thats really not good and tis but an illusion to justify your evil deeds. some murders dont cosider their murders to have been evil or the slightest bit wrong.
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Re: Evil created god and good [Re: thedudenj]
#7479366 - 10/02/07 11:46 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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What meaning does 'evil' have but a corruption of that which is good, original, meaningful?
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that is what evil means, stellar renegade
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Exactly. But my question is, if it is defined in such a way (and I was waiting to see if anyone had any other definition) then how could it be the ultimate and transcendent reality? The very definition of 'corruption' implies being lesser, more broken-down. How can something that is broken-down be greater than that which is whole? It seems to go against the very definition of the thing.
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thedudenj
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if your gona use that why cant good be the collaspe of evil or degrading of it. or that good is actually really just evil and a justification for it by trying to be flashly. like its ok that i put a drain on this planet and eat animals which are killed but i plant trees and i dont steal so it makes me good, where some one that kills people and eats them is bad and evil.
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Re: Evil created god and good [Re: thedudenj]
#7479864 - 10/03/07 06:55 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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That is a good definition of evil. But would the destruction and degredation of evil creatures by other evil creatures, also be counted as evil? Maybe thats what they used to do, just destroy each other, then one of them thought, "you know what would be even funnier?" and they created the ultimate easy target for evil....good.
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Re: Evil created god and good [Re: thedudenj]
#7480080 - 10/03/07 08:42 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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thedudenj said: if your gona use that why cant good be the collaspe of evil or degrading of it. or that good is actually really just evil and a justification for it by trying to be flashly. like its ok that i put a drain on this planet and eat animals which are killed but i plant trees and i dont steal so it makes me good, where some one that kills people and eats them is bad and evil.
No no, you're not getting it. He defined evil as "what came after." Good is simply what was first, and then evil was what came into the good. Evil is a corruption of good. By his definition evil couldn't possibly come first.
Think of it as an apple (good) and poop (evil). Poop couldn't come first. You have to have the apple first, then it becomes poop. Poop can't be turned into an apple, but an apple can be turned into poop. Poop has traces of apple in it, but an apple doesn't have traces of poop in it.
That's the best analogy I could come up with.
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Re: Evil created god and good [Re: gluke bastid]
#7480093 - 10/03/07 08:47 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah what im saying is that evil existed first tho
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Re: Evil created god and good [Re: thedudenj]
#7480102 - 10/03/07 08:49 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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What do you really understand by evil?
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stellar renegade said: What meaning does 'evil' have but a corruption of that which is good, original, meaningful?
apoptosis
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Re: Evil created god and good [Re: thedudenj]
#7480277 - 10/03/07 10:06 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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thedudenj said: yeah what im saying is that evil existed first tho
You're not listening.
All you are doing is swapping the word evil for the word good, you are not addressing what they mean. You're argument is getting lost in language. You can call a garden hose a "lawnmower" and vice versa, but that doesn't mean that the garden hose takes on the nature of a lawn mower and a lawn mower takes on the nature of a garden hose. "A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet."
Same with good and evil. If the nature of good is the nature of the entire universe when it was created, and evil is the complication, corruption, or division of that good, than there is no way evil COULD come first. Swapping the words doesn't change the nature of the ideas. Evil depends on good to exist, but good doesn't depend on evil to exist.
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Re: Evil created god and good [Re: gluke bastid]
#7480576 - 10/03/07 11:28 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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gluke bastid has what I was trying to say.
Now, the question becomes: is saving trees and making peace with others a corruption of demolishing nature and eating people? That depends. Is demolishing nature and eating people beneficial to us?
The very reason these things are considered evil, methinks, is that they are not beneficial. People may disagree about the origin of evil and how to deal with it, but just about everyone's in agreement that those types of things are the corruption of what was originally good.
It's like saying an apple comes from poop. The seed of an apple planted in the ground becomes an apple tree, but the seeds in poop are just wasted (unless they're planted in the ground, I guess - good fertilizer)
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