The act of eating is a service.

[Shin'Ar]

The human Being, as a process of the evolving All, evolves based upon their discrimination of opposites and the choices they make around such discrimination.

And if an individual discerns that apparent opposites are actually two sides of the same coin then... ?

I would just not want someone to misinterpret your words to mean that if we accept that we can by nature also be evil, that simple understanding of that makes evil suddenly a good thing, or creates a situation where there is no real aspect of difference between good and evil.

Shin'Ar- I accept your point, and even agree with it! But if I may ask, you appear to be reiterating this point over and over again in multiple threads. What's the hangup about, web-friend? Personally, I don't believe I have observed any regular members here advocating for "evil".

Perhaps it would be instructive for me to know your definition of "evil". How does one discern evil intentions in another?

First of All,

My fond thanks to Diana for standing up to the bully. Even though he was actually just being his old self. No threat was taken and yet I think we can all see how TN is a little aggressive at times. But that is his nature and I am sort of fond of the guy to be honest.

Now with regard to those 'many posts', I need to make it clear that those are threads that were posted BEFORE the mods made it clear to me that it was unacceptable to speak on similar issues in different threads because it might appear as proselytizing. I admit that I find ti difficult to avoid that as there are certain topics that pop up in a variety of threads that are always related to STS, etc., and I have had to avoid responding to those particular discussions because I had already spoken on them in another thread. For some reason the way I express myself causes me to run into issues with violating guidelines that no one else seems to have, and so I try to be mindful of what I write and do a lot of editing of, and avoiding of, threads lately.

So let me be clear that I have NOT been recently preaching about good and evil in many threads here recently.

secondly, this particular response in this thread was in answer to Monica's inquiry about whether or not the human can really know right from wrong. There is no hang up, or desire to preach on my part. I want to choose to believe that TN was not deliberately trying to open a nasty can o worms when he made his post but was seriously wanting to understand my reasoning.

But I admit to not really knowing why he seemed to think that I had suddenly become focused on good and evil. So I really can't respond anyway, even I was allowed. I thought I made it very clear, as Diana was kind enough to point out, that in my opinion, I think that people instinctively and inherently know right from wrong. It is a result of evolution.

As to further clarifying my definition of evil, I feel that I would probably be treading on moderators tolerance levels at that point so I will have to balk.