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LABTECH767
I agree with you on most of what you say. You aren't wrong in what you say, your perspective is just a little narrow
Good and bad, divine and evil, positive and negative ... They are all just defining perception. They, like things like fear, don't actually exist.
Except in the minds of those that perceive them
There is
Love, and there is
Pain
Everything else comes from these
If you start looking at it in terms of "Positive and Negative" or "Good and bad" then you need define what makes something inherently "Good" or "Bad"
and this is a mental trap. A spiderweb of your own definition that you can easily get trapped inside of and may never unravel yourself from
I'm sure you've seen plenty of examples of people in this world who have been poisoned by the good meaning and positive intentions of defining
perception and belief, to the point of hate
Everything comes from love, or pain. To allow and permit, or refuse and resist
When you simplify the positive and negative forces of the universe in such a way, in the emotional sense, it becomes very easy to understand allot of
what becomes of/from this
There is no such thing as true evil. There is only pain
Notice that I say "true" evil. Because there is, of course, perceived evil. Which perfectly illustrates the point I'm trying to make. Evil itself is
not a state of being, but a state of mind. Whether that state be by (as with externally, of someone else) perception, or by choice and/or confusion,
anger, fear or hate. Or even simply, the actions of something innocent, which knows no better, or has been taught no better
They all come from pain. Or, sometimes, merely the absence of love, affection and affinity
I'll tell about something that I experienced, which helped me come to this understanding
At one point in the last few years I was "visited" by some type of entity/spirit/being whilst in a semi-conscious state, as dark as anything I've ever
seen or met. Probably THE darkest entity or "spirit" I've ever encountered in a conscious/semi-conscious state. It was hideously burned and
disfigured, and it's very presence seemed to suck everything that could be defined as positive out of the room. It came with a overwhelming feeling of
foreboding, dread and averse danger. A feeling I believe was supposed to illicit fear, though for me it does not
I looked this being/entity/spirit directly in the eyes and it was like a vacuum sucking my consciousness into a bottomless void
It was far, far deeper than any void I'd ever felt while looking somebody in the eyes. Enough that I was consciously shocked at how deep and empty it
was. A feeling of "Woah", kinda like you are falling, "spiritually"
The centres of it's eyes were blistered and pus-filled, as if they had been cooked and popped by the same fire that had burned it's skin. I could see
as if I were standing inches away from it's face, clear enough to see the glistening of the bodily fluids
Till the eyes gave way to a black void. Like I was falling inside and through them
This being was by far the most "perceivable" evil I have ever encountered or felt
But when I was sucked into their black void, all I could feel was pain
Not like any normal pain we would ever feel in this world. It was like a sorrow for existing. Something that felt so miserably unfair and indefinably
sad, that I could only describe it as being like a small lost child
Like something so hurt, it couldn't possibly bare to exist
It wasn't evil. It was beautiful. Lost, but so, so beautiful
Underneath everything I felt when I first saw it, was a crying soul, with no-one to hear it cry
I felt sorry for it, because for a moment I had some understanding of what it felt
I woke up feeling vapid and desolate. Like I was still somehow swimming in the darkness. But I also got the sense, that I had somehow freed whatever
it was. Liberated it, or helped it let go. So even though I felt horrible and it took me some time to "resurface" and recover after I woke up, it felt
as though it were worth it. Almost like I had gone to hell and recovered a soul that shouldn't have been there, or didn't deserve it's pain
From experiences like this over the years, I have learned that "Evil" is a concept designed to isolate, reduce and disassociate the negative effects
of pain. Whether it be passively or intentionally. Or be it given as a way to defend gentle or fragile souls
Those with the greatest pain are usually those who need unconditional love the most. And those who make themselves impossible to love, usually hide or
carry some type of impossible pain
Meaning dismissive perceptions such as evil can actually be more harmful to the collective than good
Sometimes, that pain can be merely existing. Though this is a far deeper rabbit hole to delve down and explain
The concept of "Evil" in the inherent sense, is a modern concept of eschatology
A simple Bible mistranslation perpetuates a lack of understanding amongst those who tried to understand the ancient texts, without understanding the
wisdom, when they were compiled in the "Bible" Compendium
Like children trying to explain advanced physics they have little basis for understanding
The Greek word
κακός, is said to mean
bad, evil, in the widest sense when it actually means
end or
conclude
When you compare the definitions, you can see how "
to finish, cease and conclude" could be misunderstood to be "
evil, bad" because they
are both negatively definitive and/or final. But the message that it puts across is completely different
People think the word
Angel means
Messenger, defining a spirit or entity that brings understanding, when it actually means
Intelligence, which has a almost identical definition of "
What carries understanding or
How we receive understanding"
What results from things such as this, is a understanding that isn't exactly "wrong", the perspective is just a little flawed
To define pain as "Evil" is to dismiss something, without the need, or want, to try understand it
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