What is evil?

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A university professor challenged his class: "Did God
create everything?" A student replied, "Yes." The professor
continued: "If God created everything, then He created evil
too. And since our works define who we are, then God is
evil." The class became silent. Suddenly another student
raised his hand and asked, "Professor, does darkness
exist?" The professor responded, "Yes." The student
replied, "No, sir, darkness does not exist. Darkness is
just the absence of light. Light, we can study, but not
darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break the
white light into many colors and study the various
wavelengths of each color. But you cannot measure darkness.
A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness
and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain
space is? You measure the amount of light present. Darkness
is a term used by man to describe what happens when there
is no light present." Then the young man asked, "Sir, does
evil exist?" Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of
course." To this the student replied, "No, evil does not
exist, sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. It
is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness, a
word that man has created to describe the absence of light.
God did not create evil. It is the result of what happens
when man does not have God's love present in his heart.
Evil is like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or
the darkness that comes when there is no light." The
professor sat down. The young man's name was Albert
Einstein.
 
http://www.victorzammit.com/articles/nde&sixthsense.html

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For his latest research, 60 patients at Southampton General Hospital's coronary care unit were interviewed after heart attacks had left them temporarily brain-dead. Seven reported near-death experiences - defined by characteristic features such as a feeling of leaving your body, going through a tunnel and entering an area of "love, bliss and consciousness".

"The significance of this is that after a cardiac arrest you lose consciousness within eight seconds; within 11 seconds the brain's rhythms become flat, and within 18 seconds there is no possibility of the brain creating a model of the world - so the brain is down," said Dr Fenwick.

"Yet whenever we asked people when their near-death experiences occurred, they said it was during unconsciousness. If that's true, their experience was occurring when there was no blood flowing through the brain - and consciousness would appear to exist outside the brain."

It could be argued that their experiences occurred in the few seconds between brain functions being restored and the return of consciousness. But recent research on a patient in the United States, where traces of electrical activity in the brain were closely monitored, suggested this was not the case.

"That study and other evidence points to the mind and brain not being identical, and it seems that the mind may operate in part outside the brain as a sort of field which works in the same way as a TV receiver receives programmes through the airwaves," said Dr Fenwick.
 
draqon said:
too many times is God absent
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In actuality he is nowhere absent. S is distributed over S. This is how the self is S, and since nowhere is S absent, He must be in me. And He is therefore "I" as spirit and non-"I", or "God" and non-"God" merged to become the one that distributes over the one. Reality being defined according to God. As I already explained, evil does not exist, it is the absence of God in man's hard, God is love, consciousness, and good, therefore a flicker of that candle in the dark can illuminate and destroy what is false/concept/ false concept/object/actual lies and/or misunderstandings of reality. And even in this misunderstanding, can I be aware now of that. Forgive my misunderstanding, but you are not "God" if you are evil, as God is the light in your darkness that illuminates you and reveals himself that is one self. I am that light which shines in darkness. I am the love that fills the coldest heart. I am the goodness that transcends all "evil:' I am the one who is not separate from everything and everyone.

Who are you?
 
Cortex_Colossus said:
quote:

A university professor challenged his class: "Did God
create everything?" A student replied, "Yes." The professor
continued: "If God created everything, then He created evil
too. And since our works define who we are, then God is
evil." The class became silent. Suddenly another student
raised his hand and asked, "Professor, does darkness
exist?" The professor responded, "Yes." The student
replied, "No, sir, darkness does not exist. Darkness is
just the absence of light. Light, we can study, but not
darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break the
white light into many colors and study the various
wavelengths of each color. But you cannot measure darkness.
A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness
and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain
space is? You measure the amount of light present. Darkness
is a term used by man to describe what happens when there
is no light present." Then the young man asked, "Sir, does
evil exist?" Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of
course." To this the student replied, "No, evil does not
exist, sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. It
is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness, a
word that man has created to describe the absence of light.
God did not create evil. It is the result of what happens
when man does not have God's love present in his heart.
Evil is like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or
the darkness that comes when there is no light." The
professor sat down. The young man's name was Albert
Einstein.
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That was nice htough some things i would say are wrong. Since I am not certain about the second part i will respond primarily to the first part.

I can almost agree with this, i at least want to believe it:
It is the result of what happens
when man does not have God's love present in his heart.
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That may or may not be true. Factoring in posession, serial killers and a few other circumstances. Posession is somehting that just may have occured allbeit a few rare circumstances. Specifically once in New Jersey, once in Connecticut, once in Germany.

every action has an equal and opposite reaction
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Good - EVIL, if we have good (positive) well would would we even have htis without evil(negative)? How would we differentiate, how would we recognise this? HOW HOW HOW?

That is even assuming if this is correct,
every action has an equal and opposite reaction
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which TBH i am not even 100% sure about...but that is a seperate issue.

Nevertheless good information.
 
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Evil is a interchangeable idea, people can call one man's actions evil, but the same man can call it necessary. Evil is a word that is used to describe things that are deemed unacceptable in cultures. No absence of an invisible man needed. Just opinion.
 
Cortex_Colossus said:
quote:

A university professor challenged his class: "Did God
create everything?" A student replied, "Yes." The professor
continued: "If God created everything, then He created evil
too. And since our works define who we are, then God is
evil." The class became silent. Suddenly another student
raised his hand and asked, "Professor, does darkness
exist?" The professor responded, "Yes." The student
replied, "No, sir, darkness does not exist. Darkness is
just the absence of light. Light, we can study, but not
darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break the
white light into many colors and study the various
wavelengths of each color. But you cannot measure darkness.
A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness
and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain
space is? You measure the amount of light present. Darkness
is a term used by man to describe what happens when there
is no light present." Then the young man asked, "Sir, does
evil exist?" Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of
course." To this the student replied, "No, evil does not
exist, sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. It
is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness, a
word that man has created to describe the absence of light.
God did not create evil. It is the result of what happens
when man does not have God's love present in his heart.
Evil is like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or
the darkness that comes when there is no light." The
professor sat down. The young man's name was Albert
Einstein.
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Interesting. So within existence, there are holes made of non-existence?
And God's Creation is not ubiqutous?
 
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