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Originally Posted by 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.
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Scientists figured out why cats play with their food. They say it's because they are
complete badasses.
I think we as humans could most def prevent a lot of wars if we eliminated the human greed factor and adopted in its place a tolerance/understanding factor. Once again, man falls victim to evil through greed and intolerance.
I don't think dying is evil at all, just a piece that completes your life cycle so to speak. I think dying untimely because you got a knife in the back due to some asshole that wanted your land, is evil. Death in itself is not evil, rather just the end of a cycle.
I think it is perfectly fine and a very human quality to fear death. What creature doesn't want to live besides that emo kid in your high school that just broke up with his g/f? Some of it probably does have to do with one's ego though, which I feel is acceptable.
As far as food, God could provide that, no? Well even if he decided not to, men would have a underlying moral code to make sure everyone has enough. It would basically be a Socialist's paradise(which btw that isn't my politics, don't get it twisted) in the fact that everyone would be equal. Man would understand this and adhere to it without a second thought.
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