Good and evil.
What are they? Are they real? Individual entities made purely of one or the other?
I get asked questions like this all the time, as if I am some kind of guru able to answer such queries. I am most certainly no priest, at least not like any priest who is gonna be able to give you an answer you will simply be able to blindly follow and get on with whatever dreary existence you want to live in. I am not the paragon of virtue, nor the epitome of vice. I am, like you, a human being, full of a little bit of both worlds vying for the right to call my body it's own little achievement, and in the meantime trying to figure out just what it is I am supposed to be doing in this life.
Someone asked me if I believed in the devil, and I said without hesitation yes. Stupefied, because this person knew me fairly well, they asked with a certain incredulity "You actually believe in Satan?" to which I then answered no. Satan in my book does not necessarily equal Devil.
In order to believe in Satan I suppose I might have to be Christian, which I am not. But I DO believe in the dichotomy of all things - dark and light, up and down, right and wrong, left and right, etc. You see, good cannot exist without evil. And if we choose to personify all that is 'good' with a specific image we call God, or Allah, or Brahma, or Odin . . . then there must be a personification of the opposite, a very real embodiment of 'evil'.
But we ourselves can neither be good nor evil. We are cogs in this wheel of life, and ultimately are simply tools that are used to bring about good or evil. And in that doing, we are vessel of balance. Some of us do more of one than the other, but we cannot be purely good or purely evil. In order for that to happen we can no longer be human. I truly believe that choice is ahead of us, when we transcend this reality and move on to the next higher plane of existence.
So do I believe in the devil? Sure. Is he knocking on my door? I doubt it. I am not important enough for him to pay attention to. Are the demons lurking outside my window trying to get in? Could be. After all, I keep on breaking down and buying Twinkies. Those things just can't be 'good' for you.
Thought for the day - if there were no light in the world, what darkness would there be to see anyhow?
What are they? Are they real? Individual entities made purely of one or the other?
I get asked questions like this all the time, as if I am some kind of guru able to answer such queries. I am most certainly no priest, at least not like any priest who is gonna be able to give you an answer you will simply be able to blindly follow and get on with whatever dreary existence you want to live in. I am not the paragon of virtue, nor the epitome of vice. I am, like you, a human being, full of a little bit of both worlds vying for the right to call my body it's own little achievement, and in the meantime trying to figure out just what it is I am supposed to be doing in this life.
Someone asked me if I believed in the devil, and I said without hesitation yes. Stupefied, because this person knew me fairly well, they asked with a certain incredulity "You actually believe in Satan?" to which I then answered no. Satan in my book does not necessarily equal Devil.
In order to believe in Satan I suppose I might have to be Christian, which I am not. But I DO believe in the dichotomy of all things - dark and light, up and down, right and wrong, left and right, etc. You see, good cannot exist without evil. And if we choose to personify all that is 'good' with a specific image we call God, or Allah, or Brahma, or Odin . . . then there must be a personification of the opposite, a very real embodiment of 'evil'.
But we ourselves can neither be good nor evil. We are cogs in this wheel of life, and ultimately are simply tools that are used to bring about good or evil. And in that doing, we are vessel of balance. Some of us do more of one than the other, but we cannot be purely good or purely evil. In order for that to happen we can no longer be human. I truly believe that choice is ahead of us, when we transcend this reality and move on to the next higher plane of existence.
So do I believe in the devil? Sure. Is he knocking on my door? I doubt it. I am not important enough for him to pay attention to. Are the demons lurking outside my window trying to get in? Could be. After all, I keep on breaking down and buying Twinkies. Those things just can't be 'good' for you.
Thought for the day - if there were no light in the world, what darkness would there be to see anyhow?