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Title: On evil ...
Post by: Baruch on September 26, 2019, 02:09:28 PM
“EVIL WHEN WE ARE IN ITS POWER IS NOT FELT AS EVIL, BUT AS A NECESSITY, OR EVEN A DUTY. SIN IS NOT SO MUCH A DISTANCE, AS A TURNING OF OUR GAZE IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. HUMAN BEINGS ARE SO MADE THAT THE ONES WHO DO THE CRUSHING FEEL NOTHING; IT IS THE PERSON CRUSHED WHO FEELS WHAT IS HAPPENING. POWER IS AS PITILESS TO THE MAN WHO POSSESSES IT, OR THINKS HE DOES, AS IT IS TO ITS VICTIMS; THE LATTER IT CRUSHES, THE FORMER IT INTOXICATES. BUT THE TRUTH IS, NO ONE REALLY POSSESSES IT."  - SIMONE WEIL
Title: Re: On evil ...
Post by: Gregory on March 08, 2020, 04:50:05 AM
Evil is the other side of love.
Title: Re: On evil ...
Post by: Baruch on March 08, 2020, 10:19:05 AM
Quote from: Gregory on March 08, 2020, 04:50:05 AM
Evil is the other side of love.

Some say, the opposite of love is ignoring something or someone.  Evil is an obsession like love.  LaVey Satanism is unavoidably Catholic.
Title: Re: On evil ...
Post by: Gregory on March 08, 2020, 09:31:48 PM
The flip side of love is hate.
Title: Re: On evil ...
Post by: Baruch on March 08, 2020, 09:41:56 PM
Quote from: Gregory on March 08, 2020, 09:31:48 PM
The flip side of love is hate.

Too flippant ;-)
Title: Re: On evil ...
Post by: Gregory on March 08, 2020, 09:46:35 PM
The cause of war is love.
Title: Re: On evil ...
Post by: Baruch on March 08, 2020, 09:51:05 PM
Quote from: Gregory on March 08, 2020, 09:46:35 PM
The cause of war is love.

Love of gain.  Love of sex.  Love of destruction.  Love of murder.

Just say no to love ;-)
Title: Re: On evil ...
Post by: Gregory on March 08, 2020, 09:59:41 PM
We cannot say no to love, anymore then we can help fearing for those that we love.
Title: Re: On evil ...
Post by: Baruch on March 09, 2020, 08:31:00 AM
Quote from: Gregory on March 08, 2020, 09:59:41 PM
We cannot say no to love, anymore then we can help fearing for those that we love.

Tell that to a wife abuser or a child abuser.  They love to abuse.  Love is an empty word.