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are we living in an evil world?
#7877671 - 01/14/08 10:21 AM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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Hi everyone.
This is my first post since changing my name. My user name used to be jonathan_206.
A lot has happened in terms of my appreciation and understanding of reality and religious beliefs in the past weeks. I used to be a Christian, and it hurts to say I'm not anymore on one hand because I had hoped in a salvation from this world that most people I think could relate to in one sense, because so many are aware that this world is so full of violence and darkness and evil and it doesn't look like that's going to change any time soon. On the other hand though part of me despises my old faith, because I trusted in a faith that was blind to reality and mingled with darkness. I can no longer accept that a loving God would throw people into hell forever for instance. I can no longer trust in a faith that was blind to the fact that my limited "intuitive knowledge" of God's nature is not the same thing as being all knowing, which is truly what you have to be to assert anything as a true fact inthis world. How can I say I know anything for a fact besides my own existence, when my knowledge is limited? I can not because I don't know what's behind the curtain of ignorance that could invalidate everything I know. How do I know I'm not living in the matrix, or that this is all a dream?
I don't know, and so I sit here typing accepting a "reality" I cannot avoid, accepting it as reality when I cannot prove for a fact it is. And from my point of view it seems that other people face the same dillema as I do.
So on one hand I can hope for the best, although I cannot prove my best is the best, but I'm thankful that I can relate and sympathize with others, and this reality certainly seems real when I try to find common ground with others. Or is it?
So I am a liar in this sense, and it seems that others are too. But It is hard (and perhaps impossible?)to escape this reality, it's too strong, and my mind naturally grasps out to lay hold on something that I can judge by.
One thing I perceive about this world I hadn't before is that there seems to be darkness built into the universe I know now.
For instance, one person perhaps will look out at the "heavens", and see great beauty, or a seemingly majestic mountain in the distance. But upon closer inspection, I find great beauty, but also a darkness (not evil darkness necessarily)that makes space seem cold, and lonely and miserable.
I have come to the perception that everything, even nature of plants and animals and even the seasons are imperfect in light/righteousness. Would a God of love create savage beasts that mercilessly kill and eat other animals raw, and allow a world full of terror and sorrow? I am not tempted to accept that God would do this to punish humanity for their sins. If the world and people are created through his nature, then it really seems that God has some serious problems. And that doesn't fit with a God of love.
Where is he (or she or "it") ? Faith is blind, but I still hope for the best, and more recently I seem to be letting my previously higher standards of hope go because the reality of this world is so strong, and the thought that to be reasonable I should let such high standards go. But who knows what will happen. So I live in hope, and also in fear and discomfort that this world truly is reality, and I'm afraid of what might be hiding behind the veil.
The grass has beauty, the trees have beauty, green plants have beauty. but the sad reality to me is that these things are sorrowful and dingy and dark, and reality is full of it.
One thing I find that seems to be truly intertwined with evil is the smell of animals flesh cooking. To many, this is attractive, but I perceive that it is evil or intertwined with evil and hard to discern, it does not fit with a God of love either in my opinion.
Where is God? If God is love, then why isn't he closer?? Why would a God of love distance himself from us, and if we have sinned then why doesn't come come in the best way he can and come down and live with us and teach us right from wrong and release us from our fears and pain and simply forgive us. Why would an all powerful God of love create such a miserable reality from the beginning? And wouldn't he have provided a better way of establishing truth, and perceiving and loving him.
I have searched within myself, and I can't find him. But I feel I have the need for a God of love, and so do others seem to also.
I have been recently released from a mental hospital, but I don't think I have gone crazy. I think that this world still seems to be created some how by some beings or a being that can relate to our suffering and communicate with us.
This world stinks, and I hate it still, it seems more than ever. Will I ever escape this evil world? What happens when we die? What if GOd is evil and Good, or the creators of this world? Are there spiritual beings out there that are not God but have the power to create nature and living things, perhaps even the universe? These are all things I think about now.
And why does evil have a way like it does? Shouldn't evil be on the bottom if love is so much greater? Why is there things that are evil/full of darkness that people enjoy or are attracted to? Shouldn't evil have nothing to be desired, pathetic and wrong? Peopleenjoy pride, but this kind of pride seems to be evil for instance.
I sure hope I find the answers to these questions. I love more than anything love and righteousness, whatever that is to me, but It seems to be the same the world over, yet in many it seems to be mixed in with darkness, so that nothing is completely pure in light. Even the beautful flowers of this world pass away in darkness and corruption. Were they created in love, even some? Or is it all done in feigned love and deception?
I wish love would reveal himself/her/it and come rescue us. I want to believe that love is greater than evil, but even now I cannot say for sure.
IS God satan also? Has he deceived us all? This is a question I find terrifying, but from my understanding of the bible and reality now, it seems worthy of consideration. And I hate that.
I guess I'll stop here.
Edited by a_guy_named_ai (01/14/08 01:34 PM)
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Man, keep your faith, God loves you. I used to think like that myself: If God really loved me, then why would he let this happen to me, but as I got older I realized that he allows things to happen to us to test our faith in him, and sometimes to teach us a lesson for things that we have done. Remember, he knows that we will screw up,it's our nature, and trust me he takes that into consideration. As for why evil has such an attractiveness, the Bible tells you that the devil will put VERY tempting things in your way, to lure you away from God, but it's up to you to choose which path you take. Just look at it like this: Jesus died on the cross for our sins, he also died on that cross to show us that he loved us, and all you have to do is accept him, and believe in him. He died for us, all we have to is believe: Who paid the higher price?
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Hi. Glad to see you back and well. 
As you already realized, you are not alone in this confusion. You also realized that you are not ill. From my perspective, you're on your path of a greater understanding and you're becoming honest with yourself. It is very good and wise to keep in mind that this is not easy and that many times you will have to deal with fears and misunderstandings. But I also think that it's good to keep in mind that the rewards are amazing. It is so because every time you choose to confrount your fears and demons instead of running away from them or turning them into something else in order to escape terror, you will realize just how much power you have in fact. And that evil and dark are merely new faces that we give to the Unknown. That's exactly why evil seems some times SO overwhelming. Because, it seems, the Unknown becomes bigger each time we shed some light into it. You have the choice to see in all that an irony or beauty. You can even consider it a game, and you can make it your friend. It feels that life is playing with us (or our mind is playing with it). It's so much better when we remember that we don't have to become serious. Because serious means frustrated and alone. Because it's not like it will get you anywhere closer to the Truth. So since this won't happen, you might as well enjoy the ride and the (relative) truths that you find on your way. You will see that it will make some sense in time. So why despair? Why suffer? I think that an important moment in my life was when I realized that I could make totally opposite choices just as easy. And then I realized that since I can choose both to feel good or bad, with the same easiness, I decided to drop all that was holding me down and in fear.
I don't know if we will ever find the Truth. And more and more I'm beginning to wonder if this is really so important. Most of the times now it, the Truth, feels to be just another promoted image. Just like a social status or a car. How much of it is my one desire to have that, and how much of it has been imprinted to me? It's so easy to state that you want the Truth, when you're in a moment of doubt or vulnerability. And if someone is telling you the right words in that direction, at the right time, the results are crushing. Because your mind creates a pattern and each time you will feel weak, you will want to have a sign from god.
Getting back to what I was saying... how much of me really wants, craves the ultimate truth? And then what, what's next? Why should I long for that, when I have Happiness and Love right here? Why should I choose to turn my back on those moments of awareness, for something that feels so fake and futile as chasing the dragon? It would be wonderful if you could look into yourself and ask yourself all these questions. Don't you REALLY feel any moment of happiness and openness? And if you do, it means that you can make them stay with you, since they are already there. It's sort of like not being able to see the forest because if the trees. The more I ask myself these questions, the more I realize that I AM already happy, even if I have a bad day or feel sad. And that all I need to do is find my way back there.
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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: hellucinogen]
#7877802 - 01/14/08 11:15 AM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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Man, keep your faith, God loves you.
How do you know that? Honestly I think you're full of shit. 
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I used to think like that myself: If God really loved me, then why would he let this happen to me, but as I got older I realized that he allows things to happen to us to test our faith in him, and sometimes to teach us a lesson for things that we have done. Remember, he knows that we will screw up,it's our nature, and trust me he takes that into consideration.
What we have done?  What have we done?  And how did we screw up? Compared to what have we done that?
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As for why evil has such an attractiveness, the Bible tells you that the devil will put VERY tempting things in your way, to lure you away from God, but it's up to you to choose which path you take. Just look at it like this: Jesus died on the cross for our sins, he also died on that cross to show us that he loved us, and all you have to do is accept him, and believe in him. He died for us, all we have to is believe
BULL SHIT!  I refuse to accept Jesus as my savior, I don;t need a fucking savior and none of us do. Those who consider that we do so it because they find comfort in the thought that there's somebody to wipe their asses when they shit their pants and don't want to face responsibility. YOU, on one hand, have the freedom to do what you want to do with your life and beliefs. Bot don't do this to someone who is just on his way of opening his eyes.
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Who paid the higher price?
A more important question is WHO TOOK THE MONEY.  It would be GOOD to see human kind focusing on that matter.
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I have come to the perception that everything, even nature of plants and animals and even the seasons are imperfect in light/righteousness. Would a God of love create savage beasts that mercilessly kill and eat other animals raw, and allow a world full of terror and sorrow?
Realize that this is only your POV on the way things naturally exist. Cycles of life and death, growth and decay, creation and destruction, are neutral. We become attached to the way things are when we are pleased, and then judge a change as imperfection or loss. We are repulsed when things displease us, and our minds attach a negative value to their current state.
What if everything is simply happening, without malice? It is difficult to shake loose the judgments we make based upon pain/pleasure, but I think that it is worthwhile to take an imaginary step back & consider that existence truly is neutral.
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Maybe the universe is moving away from us because our world is evil. Isolation through expansion.
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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: pattern]
#7878356 - 01/14/08 01:28 PM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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This just doesn't make any sense, I hope you realize
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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: MushroomTrip]
#7878468 - 01/14/08 01:58 PM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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I think it makes perfect sense and is most likely true.
-------------------- "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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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: Icelander]
#7878482 - 01/14/08 02:01 PM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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He should write a book
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How can I say I know anything for a fact besides my own existence, when my knowledge is limited? I can not because I don't know what's behind the curtain of ignorance that could invalidate everything I know. How do I know I'm not living in the matrix, or that this is all a dream?
Surprise! You can't.
Sounds scary, but this is a liberating insight once you let go of the impulse to have to know everything. Possibilities become endless. Don't panic!
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I wish love would reveal himself/her/it and come rescue us. I want to believe that love is greater than evil, but even now I cannot say for sure.
Stop wishing. Wishing is a sure way to misery. Consider that possibility that 'evil' does not exist. Death, pain, hatred... I perceive these things as neutral and natural. Christians like the word 'evil' because it gives them an absolute to align their followers against. It's a simplistic idea best abandoned, IMO.
In any case, everything you or I 'know' is an assumption.
Your reality has been constructed from Christian doctrine and it sounds like it has been shattered. The reconstruction process will be difficult, and the pieces are not going to fit together in the same way. It will make more sense as life goes on. Get comfortable not knowing.
Don't expect to understand everything, ever. Religions try to fabricate a catch-all model that can accomplish the impossible task of complete understanding. It leads to ridiculous ideas like omnipotence and omniscience and creationism.
Observe as much as possible, and judge as little as possible.
I can't help but think this is all going to fall on deaf ears though.
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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#7878850 - 01/14/08 03:41 PM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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Embrace the darkness. Get snaky. Why not??

Some think it feels GOOD. That should mean that its come a long way. Good just doesn't cut it for some. They want both. Balance.
Congrats on not going crazy. Not easy. I've been hospitalized 4 times. Once one of the nurses actually gave me a Dixie cup full of pills and as I swallowed them she said, 'now back to your beasts.' I knew she knew that I was full of the 666 stuff. Just flip flop it all. Good=bad bad=good in some respects. Jump or duck or just take it in the kneecap or nose. Knows??
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This is the reality I fear of, that light and darkness are both sides to the same coin in God.
I used to love darkness and evil music, but I turned from my old lifestyle despite the temptation because I believed that love is so much greater than evil. The idea of being illuminated in righteousness and pure love seemed leaps and bounds better than abiding in darkness.
I think even if God or existence has these polarities within itself then I'm still more attracted to light so much more. Hate feels terible. Confusion feels terrible. Evil despite whatever it has to offer to humanity, is just not worth it imo. And I realize I've been indoctrinated, but who hasn't?
I would rather be clean than dirty.
I was reading the lyrics to this song, and as I thought about it it just was so thought provoking. But I hope it's not true, because if it is, and God judges people to hell for eternity, then that's not good at all for anyone. Do you hate your neighbor? I sure don't, and I never want my neighbor to hate me.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/seal/kissfromarose.html
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Can you give an example of evil music?
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maybe you have a bad view of the good.
Maybe you're looking for the yin rather than the yang.
I used to be Jewish, started thinking, became atheist, then found my way to where I am.
Just trust nothing. Check out some allan watts, he's great about talking about this 'nothing'. 
Trying to hold onto things was my problem, so once I let go I realized there was nothing to hold on all along and I've been great ever since.
-------------------- The best way to live is to be like water For water benefits all things and goes against none of them It provides for all people and even cleanses those places a man is loath to go In this way it is just like Tao ~Daodejing
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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#7879753 - 01/14/08 06:40 PM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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Wrath if done by God is not evil. Since God is ALWAYS right and JUST, then if He says you deserve His wrath, then you deserve it, it is justice.
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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: fivepointer]
#7879864 - 01/14/08 07:00 PM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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Since God is ALWAYS right and JUST
I will no longer accept this blind allegiance.
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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: fivepointer]
#7879920 - 01/14/08 07:08 PM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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fivepointer said: Wrath if done by God is not evil. Since God is ALWAYS right and JUST, then if He says you deserve His wrath, then you deserve it, it is justice.
I got a quote from mistah Crowley for ya.
“I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.” - Aleister Crwoley
-------------------- The best way to live is to be like water For water benefits all things and goes against none of them It provides for all people and even cleanses those places a man is loath to go In this way it is just like Tao ~Daodejing
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a_guy_named_ai said: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/seal/kissfromarose.html
The melody in this song is divine.... 
>^;;^<
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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: Cracka_X]
#7880008 - 01/14/08 07:24 PM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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Cracka_X said: “I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.” - Aleister Crwoley
What is your interpretation of this quote....? That faith stagnates, and doubt is always fresh....?
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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7880196 - 01/14/08 07:59 PM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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That faith stagnates, and doubt is always fresh....?
hmm, yes to faith stagnates as it's narrow minded, but about the doubt... I want to say surprises are always better and that being uncertain leaves one to be open to everything rather than the narrow borders of what they have "faith" in.
Now that we're talking about it, what do you think it means?
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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: Cracka_X]
#7880322 - 01/14/08 08:30 PM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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My crude interpretation of the quote is what you quoted of my post.... But, your Crowley quote was not put in any context, so I could be terribly wrong in my interpretation....
Why would it be narrow minded to have faith that there is something greater than ourselves....? Something that (with intention) created the universe....? Isn't it equally narrow minded to have faith that absolutely nothing created the universe....?
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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: PhanTomCat]
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It sounds like your growing quite normally. Everyone questions those types of things, I know I have. Let me ask you, what would change for you if you found out all this was mere chance? Would it make incentives to do "good" (i use that loosely)things obsolete? Would you be angry or fearful? I believe it's quite possible all this was chance, but that doesn't mean darkness will prevail, even if their happens to be some hanging around. I think you're choices shape your experience, and consequently have a direct effect on the light or darkness in your world. Perhaps your questioning of your faith has simply created some darkness for you? As doubt can so often do. But doubt gives us the ability to question, and answering those questions for ourselves gives us faith, light, or whatever you want to call it. Just as evil in this world gives room for good. It sounds like you have high standards for god and for good. This world gives many reasons to doubt such standards, but what do you think? What are your answers? Stay well. S
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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: spitstix]
#7880756 - 01/14/08 10:20 PM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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spitstix said: Let me ask you, what would change for you if you found out all this was mere chance? Would it make incentives to do "good" (i use that loosely)things obsolete? Would you be angry or fearful?
What would change if I came to the conclusion that it was mere chance that we are here....? I thought that way for most of my life.... I guess a few things have changed, but I still am who I was as a person, and in my ethics/morals.... Fearful or angry, no.... What would be the point....?
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spitstix said: Perhaps your questioning of your faith has simply created some darkness for you? As doubt can so often do. But doubt gives us the ability to question, and answering those questions for ourselves gives us faith, light, or whatever you want to call it. Just as evil in this world gives room for good. It sounds like you have high standards for god and for good. This world gives many reasons to doubt such standards, but what do you think? What are your answers? Stay well. S
I have not doubted my faith by asking questions of others.... 
Whether you look inside yourself, or in the micro, or the macro, you find similar patterns emerging.... Violence, structure/organization, chaos, beauty, struggle, potential, form, formlessness, and so much more - endless possibilities....
To have what we have in terms of the sheer experience of life, seems to be something more.... We are not just dirt and water and air and electricity, we are something more than that.... We have emerged out of those "simple" ingredients, as scientifically tested, yet we are "more" than that.... I don't think it is that far of a stretch to believe that there is something more than us - just as we are more than our ingredients....
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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: PhanTomCat]
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That post was actually meant for the original poster not a response to yours. I would have to agree with you about becoming more than our simple ingredients though. Believing this was all chance doesn't equal atheism. At least not for me. I do believe their is something else, whether it's greater or not, i'm not sure. But it is something, and it's something I don't completely understand.
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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#7881499 - 01/15/08 01:47 AM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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WhiskeyClone said:
Can you give an example of evil music?

But seriously, I'm glad to see you're digging deeper ai. 
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wrath is evil. Love does not have wrath. If you say nothing is evil but then recognise the scale of good and evil, you're being inconsistant and lying to yourself.
So you are still a Christian?
-------------------- Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. ~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#7881989 - 01/15/08 07:27 AM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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no. How can I be, when I can't even find God. But it would still be nice to be an angel of love.
I still try to be loving and righteous though. In fact, I think I'm more loving now, because before I had blindly taken God to be one with wrath and evil, sending people to hell.
I wouldn't wish hell forever on anyone now, unless they sent people to damnation forever with no way out.
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Welcome back ai.
Good to see you posting again.
Study some Tai-Chi or Yoga... get your body to do some of your mind's work.
It sounds weird... I know... but it WILL help.
-------------------- Fiddlesticks.
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Re: are we living in an evil world? [Re: MushroomTrip]
#13784931 - 01/14/11 07:49 AM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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Quote:
MushroomTrip said: He should write a book
Done.
http://www.creationmyth.net/
-------------------- man = monkey + mushroom
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