RE: How do we grow?
May 20, 2011 at 10:11 am
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2011 at 10:14 am by Eudaimonia.)
RE: Red Herrings and comprehension - You are all over the place.. I understood your point.. I did not respect it.. You do use red herrings.. saying you don't doesn't change anything..
RE: Absolute morality - Saying there is an engrained moral code doesn't make it a reality...
RE:
Your problem
You present two choices good and evil.. The root of evil you say is the desire for evil.. You also call free will the root of divinity a concept which has no actual basis as a human characteristic.. It is just posturing and stating things as if they are true because you state them..
In other words.. The ability to choose evil is the root of evil.. and hence your problem is with the choice.. Since there is no engrained moral code to determine.. Human agency is just agency.. only you couch it in the terms of good and evil ... I just highlighted your error..
or your religious thinking..
RE: Absolute morality - Saying there is an engrained moral code doesn't make it a reality...
RE:
(May 19, 2011 at 12:40 am)Whirling Moat Wrote: The root of all evil is Free Will, which is also the root of our divinity as human beings. Evil is a state of disorder and imbalance which manifests itself as deformities in desire. Evil incarnate seeks to satisfy its inordinate cravings and lusts...it will spare no expense to possess what it desires, even if the cost are the lives of the undeserving and innocent.
For most religious institutions evil was not its progenitor..Most likely good intention was at the center of the movement during its inception..Evil is a liar..It infiltrates..and seduces...and rises to the crest of an organization and then it corrupts...ever hiding its hands.
Your problem
You present two choices good and evil.. The root of evil you say is the desire for evil.. You also call free will the root of divinity a concept which has no actual basis as a human characteristic.. It is just posturing and stating things as if they are true because you state them..
In other words.. The ability to choose evil is the root of evil.. and hence your problem is with the choice.. Since there is no engrained moral code to determine.. Human agency is just agency.. only you couch it in the terms of good and evil ... I just highlighted your error..
or your religious thinking..
