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originally posted by: cooperton
"If only I could kill the killer" -Alanis Morissette
Definitely interesting to note how Jesus overcame death. He simply demonstrated that the virtues of love, faith, selflessness, etc transcend this entropic world.
Suppose you're an infinite being. The problem with being an infinite being is that you have to be infinitely evil in addition to being infinitely good.
So you want to find out how to stop being evil, and then you want to do whatever that is. The way to discover the solution is to setup a series of experiments, and the way to implement the solution is to setup an iterative process and run through it over and over.
So you create an infinite universe, and then create an infinite number of these universes to make a multiverse. Then you run the experiment to find out what to do with evil.
Ultimately, you come to the unfortunate conclusion that you're infinite, and you can't get rid of evil because that would require you to be finite. However, good news, you can quarantine evil.
So you create a soul soup, think of it like an infinite bowl of mud, good water mixed with evil dirt. This soup is you. You create stars and worlds and people, and when each person is born, you pour some of the soul soup into them, creating them out of a part of you.
So as part of this experiment, you now start an iterative process to identify, separate, and quarantine evil. You create karmic vacuum cleaners to gobble up and store all the evil dirt. When each person dies, you separate the dirt from the water. The water goes back in the bowl, the dirt in the vacuum cleaner. As you iterate this process, the soul soup gets increasingly clearer and the vacuum fills up. Iterate this for all of time, and mission accomplished.
Fortunately, time is something you constructed, so this actually happens instantly for you. Now some people figured this out, and they put some names to it. The infinite being is god, the karmic vacuum cleaners are the devil(s) or archons, the soul soup is heaven, and the quarantine is hell. Different people have different names, but it's the same idea.
We are all part of a larger whole that encompasses all matter, energy, and thought. We are running a simulation, a combination experiment and iterative process to solve the problem of evil. Our role is to materialize good and evil so it can be identified and separated. Our job is already done, but we don't know it yet. At some point we will be finished, and we will all come back to one.
originally posted by: Justoneman
The nature of mankind is for people to want to dominate others. That is the crux of our problem.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: LucidWarrior
Evil is a human construct that attempts to label or resolve when things are out of kilter/harmony/balance.
Nature entertains no such illusions I'm afraid, only us.
originally posted by: EternalSolace
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: LucidWarrior
Evil is a human construct that attempts to label or resolve when things are out of kilter/harmony/balance.
Nature entertains no such illusions I'm afraid, only us.
Pretty sure nature is incapable of evil. Only man Is capable of evil. Man kills for revenge, man locks man up out of revenge, takes away freedom because of revenge. Takes away property out of revenge for being poor. Evil evicts due to poor. Evil denies care care because of poor.
Humanity is the only species that imprisons itself for any perceived wrongdoings...
originally posted by: OwenandNoelle
Suppose you're an infinite being. The problem with being an infinite being is that you have to be infinitely evil in addition to being infinitely good.
originally posted by: elgaz
Speaking as someone who is not religious at all, I find 'evil' is simply a human construct, a label used to tag those things which we find morally and ethically repugnant at this particular point in our history.
Whilst the whole of humanity can generally agree on a fairly broad spectrum of things that would constitute 'evil' (rape, murder, etc), it is also wholly subjective. Did Hitler consider himself evil? I don't think so; he felt he was cleansing the human race and doing the world a service. But we still think of the things he did as evil.
originally posted by: LucidWarrior
is it possible that evil, corruption, death, entropy, etc, are merely illusions, designed to provoke a response and, thereby, be made real?