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Ignorance cast shadows, too... and false information... But then that would be just another aspect of ignorance, I guess. Lack of correct information. "It aint what I believe that gets me in trouble, it's what I believe that just ain't so!" (Will Rogers Jr.)
posted by
Ciel
on August 31, 2005 at 1:19 AM
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another great post, Ciel
i've heard it described that the light is always there, but by our own choosing, the clouds are placed between us and the light.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 30, 2005 at 1:53 PM
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It's really only a matter of perspective whether anything is good or bad.
We react to some words and notions as if they are one or the other because we have been programmed to accept that they are absolutely one or the other. But nothing can be created without something else being destroyed, and that is 'transformation.'
What one person calls Order, someone else sees as Tyranny; What one sees as Liberty, another perceives as Chaos.
It comes to the choice, whether to see the world as Winners and Losers, or simply as a great game we have the privilege and chalenge, sometimes even the fun of playing.
posted by
Ciel
on August 29, 2005 at 10:05 AM
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I've said that too
mystics of old wanted to define good and evil (the Tree) and attach eacg=h to extremes of deities. we'll leave out all the Greek and Sumerian mythologies where the "good" gods still performed evil deeds. we'll just concentrate on Christianity, where "God is good" and there is an adversary, Satan, who is the personificatoin and source of all evil.
In this manner, we don't have to take resonsibility for the evil that we do.
But it's all equally a part of us -- it's not like night and day -- it's more like a mixing of elements and the one cannot be separated from the other -- just recognized and the "good" developed and the "evil" restrained.
And yet, we cannot call it plainly "good" or "evil". We need to recognize that there is constructive/productive and destructive/counterproductive behavior and that we should develop toward the constructive/productive.
posted by
Xeno-x
on August 29, 2005 at 9:34 AM
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Hi, Sannhet!
We are on the same wavelength here!
posted by
Ciel
on August 29, 2005 at 7:44 AM
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Ciel -
Great explanation. While dualism is apparent in the physical world, and there is no dualism in the spiritual world because, as you said, ultimately Everything = One.
posted by
sannhet
on August 29, 2005 at 6:57 AM
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