Do you have a belief that you sometimes have trouble believing? A belief you want to accept as true but sometimes you wonder, and that little corner of the faith that helps make you who you are is shaken?
I do.
Man is basically good.
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Difficult beliefs
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Good and evil be subjective… like my awe-inspiring abuse of verbage. And perhaps that’s my little believe that I want to accept as true, the subjectivity of reality. Who gets to proclaim an object or action to be good or evil?
Man is basically.
And that would tempt me to get up on my soap box about how the concepts of right and wrong, good and evil are being smudged out of society. I doubt anyone would agree with me because these concepts are so widely classified as subjective... but still. I guess I'm old school. And I have a book in my pile of books to be read that is titled, "Why Johnny Can't Tell Right From Wrong"... once I read this I'll have way more to say about this topic.
*steps down from her creaking soapbox*
I agree with Phoenix - With the way things are going in North American society, what was once considered "bad" is now okay. Like taking advantage of other people, or doing things just to spite and be nasty. I have a hard time believing that people are good, when they are constantly trying to "one-up" or backstab one another. We are attempting to destroy one another, whether financially or emotionally. There is very little love. It's sad.
It is sad, but what I am a witness to at least in this particular small circle is the awareness of the situation. Each of us in our own 'real' world environments can act, behave, think and recognize what is truly good, and identify to others what is truly bad.
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