Post by petergower on Jun 7, 2010 16:48:11 GMT 9.5
I read an article of Francis Fordham on Burke. I came across the following sentence:
" [Burke thought]... evils, which are negations of good, must be tolerated, sometimes even protected, in order that any good at all may be attained. A society ruthlessly purged of all injustice might turn out to be a vast prison."
Good question petergower - I can feel a headache coming on
I can certainly understand that without challenges one would tend to stagnate and even regress, so the challenges of evil could be seen as an evolutionary tool, both physically, emotionally and spiritually.
"What you do unto other you do unto yourself" - if this is true in every sense then the evils do not exist outside of self anyway.. self created and we are free to create or build whatever we wish. It is only when we achieve a degree of wisdom that we realise what we are building .. ? A knowledge of reincarnation and karma would help in trying to define what I am trying to say here.
Read just recently that evil is just man in the process of being perfected. It helps to keep this in mind when viewing the nightly news.
I would be interested to hear Paul define the differences between darkness and evil.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
But is this not what we need though, a balance of good/evil - light/dark etc ... ? - after all what are we trying to achieve in our life/society - isn't it Harmony ? and Harmony, can it exist with only one side of the equation ?
I am not sure that there is black and white, don't we live in a world that is simply different shades of Grey ??
I am suggesting that we need a balance of light and dark and the evil is the imbalance. For example a human with too much light will easily burn out through insufficient time for re-creation
For example a mother with young children can easily spend too much energy looking after them and the father without taking time for herself to regenerate - leading to excessive fatigue, biological degeneration, emotional and physical depression and illness. This (in principle) is a case of too much light (outpouring) and not enough darkness (intake).
But in the larger scheme of things, does energy expended by a single organism need to be re-couped 100% by that organism or can energy expended (by the whole) be regained by the whole ?
So, does a single cell need to always be at the same energy level or can it vary, as long as the larger body is overall at the same level ?