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Evil is not the Opposite of Good, it's the Opposite of Truth
What if, what you believe is a lie?

To thy own self be a liar, I suppose.
You must develop the ability to be disliked in order to free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions.
(10-16-2025, 08:58 PM)DBCowboy Wrote: What if, what you believe is a lie?

To thy own self be a liar, I suppose.


Where do your beliefs stem from?

Outer validation?

Seeking attention/approval from others?
(10-16-2025, 08:58 PM)DBCowboy Wrote: What if, what you believe is a lie?

To thy own self be a liar, I suppose.


... And what if it's someone else's lie?
(10-16-2025, 08:02 PM)Unknownparadox Wrote: You first pal. You might wanna go back and reread your first reply to me. Or your second. Although I am not sure that will do any good. 
 
You did. 
 
I didn't say that. If you actually read my crazy "Crazy diatribe". Then you might have noticed this.
Sex education is probably a good idea, but it shouldn't be forced. And it should not be around a decade before they need it.
 
No not per se. They put the ideas in there head with mandatory classes, about gender, gay's, non binary, and heterosexuals, I am not even sure heterosexual was even in there. So when you tell this kind of stuff to a kid, they are going to start asking a bunch of hard to answer questions. Technically a child doesn't know what they are until after puberty, since that is the time the cycle of life chose for them to reproduce. 

You might want to read up on the supreme court ruling on that.
Ummm no, and to top that off, you want a complete stranger, or may as well be a complete stranger, to teach your kid about the areas that complete strangers shouldn't be touching. Now that is a great idea. I guess you haven't noticed how teachers kinda sleep with their students.
 
Well times they be a changing my good man.

I tell you what. We do not agree and we are never going to agree. And there is nothing wrong with that. I am going to give you the final word. I will not respond to your next reply. So make it a good one. But I will read it.

Oh and Evil is always the opposite of truth. Not to say all lies are evil. Or that Evil is only the opposite of truth. And when I say evil, I mean what humans have determined to be evil.

Reading and comprehension might be as much of an issue for you as manners. 

How is your child's teacher a complete stranger? 

What about parents' evenings and actual communication with the teacher? 

In nursery and primary school settings, where kids would be "3,4,5, and 6" that's a very important aspect you see, and it lets you get to know the person teaching your child. 

As to not responding further, well if you choose not to reciprocate, that's up to you.

I don't think you even have any children.

And seem to know about as much about sex and education as you do evil.

Kids ask awkward questions all the time, it's what they do, constantly, as any parent knows. 

If you can't answer them, that's your problem, not theirs. 

Their teacher, on the other hand, they are paid to do that job. 

My first reply to you is quoted below, what seems to be the issue you have with such? 
 
Quote:Evil isn’t some cartoonish antonym of truth.

It's a moral concept, not a metaphysical one.

Lies can be evil, but so can cruelty, greed, and ignorance.

All of which flourish quite well among self-proclaimed truth-defenders.

Where am i being ill-mannered or calling you silly names? 

Here is my second reply to you.
 
Quote:Tell us more about "the cycle of life" and how it pertains to evil?

What appears to be the problem there, aside from your inability to answer appropriately or comprehend the question?

You may wish to calm yourself and form a cohesive response based on facts, as opposed to feelings. LoL

If evil is merely the opposite of truth, then ignorance or fiction would be evil, which they're not.

Human concepts of evil, cruelty, malice, injustice, concern harm, not falsehood.

Lies can protect or destroy.

Truth can wound or heal.

So equating "evil" strictly with "untruth" oversimplifies the moral reality of the situation.

And just to point out, i did not put us here, i only arrived in 1975.

Humans have been around in their present form for approximately 200,000 years.
"Yet so it is, we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common sense, and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed. To them nothing that is familiar appears unaccountable or difficult to comprehend."
(10-16-2025, 08:45 PM)cherokeetroy Wrote: know thyself 

To thine own self be true

Oh, that makes far more sense than, "No thigh shelf, two thine own, sell f... beetroot"!

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(10-16-2025, 09:46 PM)Maxmars Wrote: ... And what if it's someone else's lie?

. . . and you believe it?
You must develop the ability to be disliked in order to free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions.
(10-17-2025, 06:17 PM)DBCowboy Wrote: . . . and you believe it?

Lies only have "quality" of lies if they are created to be believed...

So yeah, I suspect we all might believe a huge number of trivial lies... and some not so trivial.
(10-17-2025, 07:03 PM)Maxmars Wrote: Lies only have "quality" of lies if they are created to be believed...

So yeah, I suspect we all might believe a huge number of trivial lies... and some not so trivial.


As we've seen, lies comfort.

You could be on fire, your savings gone, no food, no power, but if someone SAYS you're okay hard enough and long enough, you might end up believing it until the day you die.
You must develop the ability to be disliked in order to free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions.
Anyone can believe anything they want. Thoughts and ideas are subjective 

What matters more than the actual belief is knowing  how the belief was formulated 

Does it come from your conviction or someone else's and how do you tell the difference
(10-17-2025, 08:32 PM)cherokeetroy Wrote: Anyone can believe anything they want. Thoughts and ideas are subjective 

What matters more than the actual belief is knowing  how the belief was formulated 

Does it come from your conviction or someone else's and how do you tell the difference


Everyone's belief comes from someone/something else.

There is no individual that comes up with a belief system on their own without the help of a higher power.
You must develop the ability to be disliked in order to free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions.



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