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Author Topic:   Is Anything Evil? Does Evil Exist?
kuresu
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Message 2 of 105 (398662)
05-02-2007 3:20 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Rob
05-02-2007 2:23 AM


so your whole point of this is what, exactly? That the supernatural must exist?
you seem to have a problem here, rob.
Nature is neither good or evil. It just is. This does not mean that we cannot call things "evil" or "good". Why? Because "evil" and "good" are what we make of something. I think that X is "evil", but Y is "good". This is based off of my view, the picture I have of what's around me, in a way. I fail to see how this is "logically inconsistent".
Nature appears to be imbalanced in many respects. But if it is all 'natural' and therefore just simply reality, then there is no difference between that which is 'in balance' and that which is 'out of balance'. It is what it is.
Asserting does not make it so. Of course there is a difference between what's balanced and out of whack (granted, this is relative to the viewer). Is there a difference between a cart with 2 apples and 2 oranges and a cart with 1 apple and 3 oranges (the latter would be unbalanced, in favor of the orange). I say yes.
Under your own philosophy, we have no basis upon which to judge Mr. Cho (or president Bush)other than some illusory perception created by our society (which itself is also perfectly natural). So there is no such thing as something illusory, or faults, or imbalances. There is no such thing as truth, and no such thing as a lie. You are Bush, and Bush is me, and I am a rock, and Hoot Mon is litterally an owl.
And this is all gibberish. There is a difference between something balanced and unbalanced. Both are part of nature. Ever hear of yin and yang?
It would be somewhat like me arguing that the Trinity cannot be three distinct things because they're all part of the whole!
Again, I really fail to see the whole point of this. I'm thinking it's just you rambling about nothing. You're asking for "evil" to be an absolute (unless I'm mistaken), when quite frankly, it's all dependent on the person. You have one idea of "evil", I another. If you're arguing for an absolute "evil" you're not going to get anywhere.
And now I should probably shut up. This post is getting way to rambled/jumbled. Oh well.

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