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Cruel people and acts which have no benefit for anyone.
Not just senseless happenstance, but malignity. Murder. Abuse. Torture. Ruination without profit besides the innocent victim's downfall. Not due to insanity, but disordered personalities.
If you can lump "greed" into this, then it is widely expxanded.
But, no...no Devil. Too good an excuse (a'la Flip Wilson)
posted by
majroj
on September 23, 2005 at 10:15 PM
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majroj -- you lost me on what that evil was.
I can say that I have seen evil as well, depending on how the words are used. If used as a coloquialism referencing scenes of horror and disgust....I can say that I have seen that as well. ...I just don't happen to always call it evil.
posted by
gomedome
on September 23, 2005 at 6:23 PM
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renigade3 -- very good comment ----exceptional
You must have read the part in my blog policies about adding to the Blog's content with one's comments....very well done.
posted by
gomedome
on September 23, 2005 at 6:17 PM
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My priest (yes, PRIEST) told us one time that the Bible is NOT
meant to be taken literally. It is symbolic in nature. I've always believed that. Do miracles happen? I think so. Do I take everything in the Bible on a literal level? No.
Good post.
And yes, I often reevaluate my beliefs.
posted by
Renigade
on September 23, 2005 at 5:24 PM
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I've seen real evil, and in the end it is always very banal...
just carried to extremes sometimes.
posted by
majroj
on September 23, 2005 at 5:18 PM
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Xeno-x -- no fear of that -- the last time I posed these questions a few
insults came my way, a few people insisting that Satan was very real and one guy asked me if I ever saw someone part Lake Michigan the way Moses did? I think his point was that the time of parting the Red Sea were "holy times".
posted by
gomedome
on September 23, 2005 at 4:50 PM
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i'm waiting for all the answers to come rushing at you
posted by
Xeno-x
on September 23, 2005 at 4:46 PM
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