Slip, I mailed the test...along with the check....
On Mar 24, 4:17 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.- Hide quoted text -
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