How do you understand evil?
The title says it all. How do people on this forum make sense of evil in the world?
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Evil is not in the world it's in certain individuals. I'm thankful I can't get too close to how those sick individuals might feel when occasionally I have meditated on their situations. I feel sick inside when I do get close so I have to stop.
I can't make sense of evil and nowadays - after nearly 40 years 'in the spooks' - I find myself increasingly questioning why a percentage of new humans coming into this world are seemingly destined to live lives where they perpetrate the kind of sick behaviors humankind has been subjected to for centuries and millennia. |
Look at the word 'evil'....... backwards...... and you have the word "live".
Having said that , some people look at the word "evil" differently then others do. If something 'bad' happens, is it some 'Spirit(s)' trying to get somebody to experience a certain experience? This reminds me of Judas, who betrayed Jesus and who some claim was only fulfiliing a karmic debt or one of the many other versions of the 'story'. So, was Judas 'evil'? As for me, I believe that if you dwell on 'evil', we might give it enough energy that it can come 'alive' to cause havoc as we create our own realities. Is this what we really want? Who knows? |
In a channelled session, Buddha said “sometimes to go to the right, the pendulum must first move to the left” … or words to that effect
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What I find interesting about the question is a persons view that seems to determine it. I've noticed one can look at something done towards others (outside) and supposedly not see it wrong yet complain when the (exact) same thing happens to them (inside). It seems to be more relatable when it happens to us. If it is understood in one situation then it remains the same outside oneself to. Certainly instinct plays a part and part of the code. |
I have plenty to say, but later. So here is just 1 thing Joel S. Goldsmith* said:
''When we appear to be good, it is the activity of God operating through us. When we appear to be evil, it is the activity of material sense which is only a sense of separation from God.'' *Author of: 'Conscious Union with God" 'Practicing the Presence' 'Beyond Words and Thought' 'Living by Grace' 'The Art of Spiritual Healing' |
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Sometimes, evil is committed for psychological advantage. Most cases of revenge fall under this type of evil. |
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Namaste |
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But I am baffled why foul and outrageous patterns of behavior are still happening even after many thousands of years of human existence and certain humans being inhumane towards their fellow man. Does it mean that a small percentage of all new humans - the ones experiencing their very first incarnations as humans - will have the chance to behave in such ways? If so then it seems humankind must be resigned to such situations ad infinitum or as long as first-timers continue to come into this world. Perhaps it's the positive/negative aspects of human existence which will never change? |
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