Thanks Chris, would you like to join Orn with the lessons in politics? LOL
Orn! You need to mail that first test back for grading! On Mar 24, 10:15 am, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Eloquently put, Slip! > > > > [ Attached Message ]From:Slip Disc <[email protected]>To:"\"Minds Eye\"" > <[email protected]>Date:Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:10:28 -0700 > (PDT)Local:Tues, Mar 24 2009 9:10 amSubject:[Mind's Eye] Re: Does evil exist? > > It is not a classification across the board, gruff. > > Let's wash this down a bit more and let's put aside the word "evil" > for now. > > Child A is born with talent, Child B is born with intellect, Child C > is born with negative personality traits. > > Child A does not exist the womb and start playing a piano, Child B > does not exist the womb reciting mathematical equations, Child C does > not exist the womb and start torturing animals. > > Child A at age 6 sits down at a piano and begins to play Mozart, Child > B at age 6 starts first year college, Child C at age 6 is in the > basement drooling over animal torture and numerous corpses. > > Point being that knowledge can be innate, whether positive or > negative. True? (if Yes read on, if No stop now) > > We can label that knowledge however we want and according to our > beliefs or social mores. Child A might be considered, by some, to be > weird, strange, talented, a virtuoso, child B considered a nerd, a > geek or a wiz, child C considered a freak, a devil, curious, insane or > "evil". > > Much of what we are IS learned knowledge and much IS innate. How we > label those traits is a matter of belief. > > One might say of child C that he is fine and that he is going to be a > brilliant forensic scientist one day, while another might view the > child as sick with a preoccupation with morbidity. This is where I > clarified earlier that it is Not my belief that a person is evil > because of morbid interests or cultism, but my whole idea is that > "evil", if that is what you want to call it, can be innate in some > people. > > If a person has inherited traits then those traits are innate. > Darwin's concepts of biology and evolution could be the foundation > upon which innateness rests, much of Nazi idealism is based on it and > precedes eugenics. > > Now, I also believe that there are cosmic forces that exist which can > influence our lives beyond the physical realm and I think this is > where the problem for some arises. We can look at the butterfly > effect and consider that little Tim Kretschmer killed that pregnant > woman because the baby she was carrying was going to become a > monstrous killer of millions of people. Either way there seems to be > more going on in the universe than what we perceive here on our little > planet. > > If you don't believe in positive/negative, good/bad, and other cosmic > forces and need scientific proof of such then the conversation is > moot. > > There is no proof of the existence or non existence of the > aforementioned forces. > > On Mar 23, 7:22 pm, gruff <[email protected]> wrote:> "... On Mar 23, 1:55 > pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: ..." > > > > Dahmer was > > > just an example to show that his was not a learned behavior but one > > > that was innate, and! how the exhibition of innate negative quality > > > can and does occur later in life. IMO, of course! > > > Are you classifying dysfunction as innate? I would challenge that > > because it seems that only good healthy characteristics are innate and > > when they come out of the womb twisted or are twisted in the > > upbringing that is the dysfunction. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
