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Posted 2007-11-27, 10:56 AM
in reply to Grav's post starting "So you are arguing that your opponent's..."
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It's an interesting read up until the end. Claiming that evil, darkness, etc, is just the absence of God? I don't think so. If anything, evil is the absence of good, darkness is the absence of light, but neither are the absence of God.
And everything we know is based on dualities. If we didn't know evil, how would we be able to know good? If we didn't know hot, we wouldn't know cold. That's pretty basic, and is partially the reason I don't believe that a christian "heaven" is possible.
I wouldn't want to live in a place where there's no evil of any sort, only good, because without having evil, you cannot enjoy good. Without war, we wouldn't enjoy peace so much.
A good example of "bad" really being partially "good" is with nazi death camp prisoners. The people who went through that and survived most likely see EVERYTHING as being good relative to what they went through. As much as it sucked, it's also quite a gift, because now they can go through anything, and enjoy even the simplest things that we take for granted. Imagine how good food looked to them after they went months on less than the body needs to survive. Imagine how great it felt for them to actually sleep in a bed, without having 5 other people crammed in with them and a shoe as a pillow.
I don't mean to make it seem like it's a GOOD thing that they went through what they did, but it does make everything else seem much, much better.
Last edited by !King_Amazon!; 2007-11-27 at 11:02 AM.
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