Wow rite up my alley here, cool, I always like to help out so much but hate to admit it cause everyone always floods me with all there little trobbles,LoL.
Or do I realy love it but don't want anyone to think Im being errogant,LoL.
What if everyone's idea of god is wrong and we all put together are maybe god?
What if there was no bad in our reality, what would good then be?
Here's a biggie, What if you are just makeing everything up with your mind, like a hollowdeck, nothing realy exsists, in other words, your body dies and you are whole the only thing that is real and the only thig that exsists.
How do you know for shir without any doubt that when a tree falls in the woods an no one is around to here it, that is defanately makes a noise.
Here's a clue Anyone that hasn't seen What the Bleep do We Know, Down the Rabbit Hole. If you pay attention in the movie it explains very clearly how " Energy is Aware of Itself ". Now does energy think? Well dear you an I are pure enegry, our bodies are not real as the bain believes or we could not exsist as we believe we do.
Nurvona, magic, life and exsistance is real only in our mind. You can go around an around and will not believe it because if you realy do you would not be able to experience IT. It being the illusion of life and exsistance.
I was Energy pure an simple total power all that exsisted, how bored I was, I decided that being bored was not fun and created what I call the universe, I took different little parts of myself and gave them names and let them forget that they were connected to eachother just for fun, And guess what happened???

Hi Karen,

I think you've asked a very interesting question here.  How do you define evil?  Or, rather, what kinds of things/people do you find to be evil?  What is evil is also culturally mediated - things we find evil aren't so in other cultures, and some of what we accept culturally is considered evil in other places.

I have tried to reconcile the concept with myself in that evil exists only where I so judge it to be.  Even though it can be the most challenging thing I do, I try to see the God-light in every person.  For example, was Ken Lay evil for stealing all those people's pensions and leaving them penniless in their old age?  Are terrorists evil? Was what happened in New Orleans after Katrina evil?  All these things are just part of the world.  To move beyond the judgment of them, I try to see the good that comes from them, and to recognize that the people who are behind the acts/non-acts are just humans, living out their own dramas, their own stories, from their own, possible selfish motivations.  We are responsible for how we respond to these events.  Do we lobby Congress to pass laws protecting pensions?  See the pain people are in that cause them to strap bombs to themselves? Send money/volunteer time to help those in need? 

Wayne Dyer, in his book _The Power of Intention_, talks about how each person living in optimism and hope, alleviates the negativity of the people around them.  Given that we have such power, isn't is better used focusing on the way we can help, rather then ruminating on what's not going right?

I don't know if I've answered your question, so please respond!

Best,
Melanie

I've thought about this in the past.  I don't believe in the existence of Satan, and I don't believe that God created evil.  So, what that leaves me with is,

1.  'evil' is a result of a physiological imbalance in one's brain chemistry

and/or

2.  the result of FEAR of some form -- which is rooted in my belief that all things in this world stem either from love or from fear.  I we don't do something in a loving manner, then it is fear that is motivating us...fear of losing what we have, or fear of not getting what we want.  So, I can easily see greed as fear-based; abuse as fear-based; on and on.  I see that our pure self (God self) gets covered by layers of fear (via the ego/free will) and as we become more and more 'contaminated' by fear, we do more 'evil' things.

Annie,

BTW, where do your current beliefs come from?  Did they evolve from other thinking?

Tx
K

Annie,
We muts out number the pure breeds...   HA HA.

I came to this earth searching, I have participated in almost every orgainized religion possible!  The last being Southern Baptist.  I love my southern baptist brothers and sisters and know  I would not be HERE at this point, without their points.  (Circle Circle)  It is exactly like the Tao says.  You have to be aware of the opposite of something to know "it" exists.

As the Toltecs say...  This is my hell, my sin, my evil.

I want to get this lifetime right because, I do not want to do this hard stuff again.