Hi

I don't know where this will go but I got into it from Neil's post on good and evil --  Is everything wrong evil,
        or is evil a special extreme category?
For example, it's easy enough to make wrong choices that one knows are wrong; but would we make such choices if we thought they were evil?

Bets
And
Is there any truth to the wordplay of the reverse of evil being live?

Betson

There is definitely a difference between "wrong" and evil.  I put wrong in quotes because the meaning of this term is not really set in stone- it varies from individual to individual.  A wrong action to one may be the right action to another.  I believe it depends on the intentions behind the action.  It is possible to do something "wrong" for the right reasons.

hi bet my x husband was evil ,i think he was incapable of giving love to anyone,i think he felt love but just could not give it out,i tried and tried to give him love because he had a bad childhood,where his mother was putting it about with anyone she  fancied.

even chained my x husband to a fence outside while she was with yet another man and he was only 9 yrs old when she did this,he was shown no love whatsoever when he was growing up and i payed for this in a big way.

he had so many affairs could never understand why i could not hack it and we finally split,because of that evil unfeeling woman that brought him up.

so i beleive that part in the bible what says evil begets evil and that is so true as i lived through just that off him and now we are divorced

love and god bless  love juditha

What do likes and dislikes have to do with it? Consider the rape case I mentioned. Whether or not such an event is negative, wrong, evil, has nothing whatsover to do with our likes and dislikes. If a person is treated horribly, then something horrible, negative, wrong, evil, did take place.

I don't believe we become sophisticated when we get into this there is no good and evil business. If another being can be disrespected, harmed and caused to suffer, then there "is" such a thing as "wrong" activity.

I can understand why new age people don't want to be accused of being gullible, but for goodness sake, if they don't want to be accused in such a way, then perhaps they should stop acting accordingly.

Is this what the spiritual evolution of this planet needs?  A bunch of people who could've helped this World but were taken in by their gullibility.

Just because new age source A says there is no good and evil, this doesn't mean that such a dichotomy doesn't exist. I'm not saying half of this universe is light and the other half is dark, but certainly negativity rears its ugly head in many ways.

I agree that a day will come when everything works out wonderfully, but perhaps we shouldn't make the mistake of counting our chickens before they hatch, because our aloofness will make it so they never hatch.


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Certainly it is possible for people to discuss something without it being considered a debate.

If you don't want to read my words, that's fine, but if you don't want people to comment about your thoughts, perhaps you shouldn't share them on a public forum. To me it makes no sense at all to share our thoughts on a public forum, and them expect that nobody will disagree with them.

If fact, you pretty much did the same thing when you responded to the previous posts on this thread.

In the case of this rape incident..are all the perpetrators "evil"? Or was the act its self what was evil? Will they be going to rape hell? If she thinks poorly of the attackers and wishes them dead, will she end up in hell? What of those girls who stood by knowing what was going on? And finally, is it evil to be "afraid" to step in and not help when you have a dozen mid to large young men violently attacking someone? Is that fear, evil? We all reach out to this young lady. Personally I think a proper deterrent might work. Give the girls Dad a dull knife and strip down the boys so he can remove any offending parts. That might make the next perp think twice about joining in on such a despicable act. (I hope I don't end up in Judge Judy Hell) 

Oh come on Don, why do you have a problem with mincing words? Perhaps instead of saying something such as Jane Roberts Seth is a fraud, I could say, Jane Roberts Seth could be more genuine.

"Wrong" or "evil" (as well as the opposite, positive attributes) are, concerning the own person's deeds, always hindsight attributes. If one is really convinced that something is wrong or evil, this one won't do it. We all do always what we think is right- it's a circular definition of course. We simply cannot do what we think is wrong, or evil, as that would simply mean we won't do it. The use of phrases like "I'm doing something real evil now" is just a degradation, or a double-play of language. There is a difference of what someone thinks by him/herself to be evil/wrong and what someone thinks the society may label something as evil/wrong. If someone really thinks "what I am going to do is evil" then he/she just won't do it.

Spooky