--- In [email protected], "Jeff Fischer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > If you had a belief system (such as Tantra) in which
> > nothing was inherently either good or evil, would you
> > need an "enemy" to reinforce that belief system or
> > lend it "credibility?" Possibly not. But the minute
> > you have a belief system that positions itself as
> > "good" or "holy," you have a need for there to be
> > something to be "bad" or "unholy" to provide contrast
> > to it.
> >
> > Interesting subject. I don't really have a clue here;
> > I'm just rappin', off the top of my head.
> > Unc
>
> One could argue from the POV of the *Absolute* that nothing was
> inherently good or evil. But, the last time I checked, we're
> currently stuck in the *Relative* and, as we're seeing on a daily
> basis, there's plenty of "evil" going on. Something needs to be
> done about it. Not to bolster some particular religion or *cause*
> but to save the freakin' planet.
And if this planet and its lifeforms turn out to
be the galactic equivalent of the Smallpox virus,
and the only way to save the trillions of trillions
of other sentient beings in the universe is to kill
off the infestation before it spreads?
Not arguing, just trippin' on infinite regress.
The further away you stand from a problem, the
obvious the obvious facts about it are, and the
less important the whole issue seems in the
larger scheme of things.
Unc
"Anyone informed that the universe is expanding
and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion
years has a right to ask, "What's in it for me?"
- Peter De Vries
"Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not
only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than
we can suppose."
- J. B. S. Haldane
"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a
comedy in long-shot."
- Charlie Chaplin
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