The Problem of Evil

[kahljorn]

Animals sometimes play with their food. Cats do. sometimes they play with things that aren't even their food just to play...
Some people kill for survival. Wars, or even if they are poor they might rob a person. everything you do will put someone or something at a loss, it's unavoidable. you can't build a bridge without stones from a quarry am i right?

the reason why some systems have more than one god are for reasons such as this. some people believe the ultimate god may be omnipotent but isn't benevolent. the benevolent god is a lesser god.
Also, like i said, what if gods form of "Good" is something different than just making sure people don't die? What's so evil about that if it's a part of life? The only reason it seems like an important piece of the puzzle is because humans are self-interested and don't want anything bad done to them, thus they think gods interest is the same as theirs. but really why would god care, we're insignificant. but we want to feel significant, aye there's the rub lol
Maybe if evil didn't exist, then life itself couldn't exist. What would we eat? We couldn't eat without making something suffer. have you ever heard the phrase, "God created karma and then he retired," it means god created a world that is self-sustaining, functional and progressive. anyway, i guess all that's besides the point if omnipotents really means he can make anything happen ever.
And if we were nomads or foragers (living freely off the land), we'd think evil is something else like bad rains or tigers or something.

i actually wrote a paper along these lines ;o including a rationalization of how god could be good while avoiding the problem of evil. that last thing was a small Piece of THE SPIE.
my paper focused on what omnipotence means, logically.

but in the end i kind of had the same solution in that i dont think god is benevolent in the way people think. i still had a SORTA SORTA similar tract but it wasn't the same type of benevolence.