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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jubilee McGann: [QB] Okay..... I havn't had alot of time to read all the larger posts in here, but I think I get the general gist of what's going on..... So i'm just going to give MY point of view on good and evil, and then go hide behind the big rock again. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] Opposites exist in this world for a reason. There is day, and night; The Moon has it's fullness and then it's darkness; There can be no Order without Chaos; There can be no dark without light, no good without evil. The reason I give for this is the reason of balance. The Universe stays in a constant precarious balance and if one side had all the power, it would unravel everything else. Anyone ever see that movie, <u>Legend</u>? Anyways, as Tora was saying ... We _CANNOT_ know what light is unless we have also experienced the darkness. We can't know Joy unless we've known Sorrow .... we cannot know our good unless we have looked upon our evil. Now then.... the definition of Good is "the opposite of evil" and the definition of Evil is "the opposite of good". This puts us in a very tough position.. WHAT is good? and WHAT is evil? ....... I say they are all relative. Every persons good and evil is going to be different ... the trick is knowing within yourself what you feel to be good, and what you feel to be evil. Is there some huge big bad guy who lives in Hades and draws our souls to "the dark side"? Satan is a christian creation, invented to scare the people they were converting INTO converting. I don't believe in Satan, or the Devil, or any of that nonesense. But that doesn't mean that I don't believe in Evil. For me, it is "the dark side" itself that is the evil in this world. In my religion, we are taught that the universe was split in half, one half to the God, the other to the Goddess, and that these halves converged together to create the one whole that was "The source" ... something that others would call God. "the source" teaches us to do good for eachother, help eachother, and harm no one with any of our actions. The general rule of the universe states that anything you send out from you comes back threefold as powerful .... I'm sure you've all heard "What goes around comes around". It is when people get power-hungry and start hurting their fellow planet-dwellers (trees and such included), when these people use the power the source has given them to cause only pain and sorrow and darkness, THEN they become evil. But it is not because the devil made them do it, it is because they were silly enough to be seduced into thinking that they could cause only darkness in this world: and their payment for causing darkness is BECOMING DARKNESS. It is not the actions (as some would call "sins") of these people that alone are to blame. It is simply the thoughts that are to blame, for when they start thinking that they can do whatever they want, and hurt whatever they want, and NOT MAINTAIN BALANCE of the good and evil within them - THAT's what's to blame. So.... God exists and is Omniscient, and he knows there is evil in this world, and it exists because there has to be a balance between good and evil. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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