(February 26, 2016 at 3:22 am)Whateverist the White Wrote: My gut reaction to the title of the video: "where do good and evil come from" was to ask "where are they now". Point to some "good". Better yet, show me some "evil". All you can do is to point to a person who has done some heinous thing or show the heinous act itself.
So what are good and evil? Are these things acts or persons? If good and evil are acts, are the good and evil anything beyond the acts? Does it exist in itself in some potential state until it is called on by an act? Does the evil bring the act about or is evil simply something we call a heinous act?
If evil exists as persons, is everything about an evil person evil? Did the evil hijack the individual and use him like a host? What is it you people say about distinguishing between the sin and the sinner? Surely you don't think people themselves are the embodiment of evil then.
Yeah, before I can be arsed to worry about where good and evil come from, I need more information about what exactly we are looking for. Show it to me so I know what we are looking for.
When we do an evil act, we will feel distressed about it. We will feel the need to redeem ourselves.
Today we are veiled from the true nature of our actions. The day when when the true nature of our actions is manifested to fullest degree, then we are no longer able to intend the good and perform in it the same way.
We might ask to return to this world and do good, and that we would be sincere to God, but then it would be too late.
The reality is we are somehow connected. We have fuzzy vision.
If we want 20/20 vision, we ought to hone our spiritual senses. Try to implement our knowledge, purify ourselves, perform the good we know, help the poor with alms and other means, etc.
We ought to put to practice what we know. And we ought to search for knowledge of what we don't know. Every time we see a beautiful example of a trait in someone, adopt it. Every time we notice an ugly trait in someone avoid it.
Actions turn to habits which turn to nature often.
Today we are veiled from our true value, our true nature.
Every time we do an action, it plays a role in what we are, our value, our spiritual image in the unseen.
But we don't see it much like when we look up in the sky, and don't see the size of the star. We see it small.
We see things from far vision. That is why we don't exalt good actions as they ought to be exalted neither do we fear and run away from evil actions as they ought to be feared.
When we have greater faith, then the eyes of our souls see more closer to the reality.
The truth is though, when you believe someone inherits an action, this requires a metaphysical system.
Of course, the metaphysical system is complex, no doubt, just like our minds are, but we all witness it to a degree.
