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I understand the appeal of complex villains: they are human and remind us what we are capable of, they make us feel pity and fear, they help make us vigilant.
I also would like to champion the villain who is merely a skin-thin ostensibly-human disguise for the devil or disaster or bad luck, because sometimes evil doesn't make any sense at all and it's just stupid simple stubborn old evil.
Let's look at the concept of hell. It is a concept that is easy for humans to grasp, and yet there are other elements that are diametrically opposed to the concept of heaven.
Black and white are perceived as the opposite. One might wonder why sulphur is seen as the opposite of clouds.
If there is no religion, one could theorise that the earth is the hell of a pangalactic dimension.
This could be considered an evil string theory.
It could be argued that those who have committed truly heinous acts in other universes end up on Earth.
One might wonder why Earth is assumed to be a hell.
In fact, it can be observed that patterns of behaviour have been repeated since time immemorial. Perhaps most disturbing is the tendency to fight each other over issues such as land, ideology, religion, power, influence and money.
When it's not war, it's peace, and when it's peace, it's war. One step forward, one step back.
Alliances are made, alliances are broken, power and influence are sought, spheres of power and influence are established, greed, arrogance, pride, vanity and Nazism are accepted. Personal gain is sought.
Everything that has happened in the course of history has been part of a larger, cyclical pattern.
The rise and fall of empires is an example of this eternal pattern. Hatred, lies, envy, marginalisation and other negative feelings are also part of this cycle.
It can be argued that there is love and goodness in the world, and therefore both heaven and hell are likely to exist.
It is an eternal battle between light and shadow.
If we observe the world around us, it is obvious that it is not a hell in certain parts. It is not bound to places. Rather, it is a matter of time, place and circumstance. When these elements come together, evil manifests itself.
The existence of hell depends on the actions and intentions of those who create it and is not a pre-existing entity.
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Hell is just another word when humanity is absent.
Light and shadow, the recognition of the messenger is not necessarily the understanding of the message.
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Humankind is the only species that lacks the cognitive capacity to prevent historical misbehavior that has resulted in human catastrophes in the past and may potentially do so in the future.
If you ask us, the eternal repetition of the same catastrophe over time, which only leads to catastrophes because of the same wrong decisions, is ultimately the hell that mankind has created.
We do not know any animal that considers itself intelligent that could not be more stupid.
An alternative hypothesis is that this is a cosmic joke in which the forces of good and evil perpetually engage in a never-ending battle, ultimately canceling each other out.
The world of horror has always been a pleasure for us. The fascination of horror lies in the DNA of humanity, in the creation of the idea of evil.
All the creatures that are just waiting for us humans to corrupt us is a beautiful rejection of our own depravity
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It's pretty incredible when you think about it. There are probably very few people who have died based on the concept of evil. But on the other hand, there have been lots of people who have died based on the concept of religion in the name of good!
You could say that horror is a relatively harmless aspect of humanity. However, it is probably surpassed by reality.
This film left a lasting impression on me when I was younger, and now I have it in every format in my film collection! I've got a video cassette (self-recorded from TV), a DVD, Blu-ray, and even a hard drive with some old stuff on it.
It's time to watch it again for the umpteenth time!
Or simply read on the beach – it's the perfect way to catch some rays and enjoy a great read!
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a profoundly human account set against the backdrop of racial injustice and the innocence of childhood. It is much more than a mere novel; it is a thought-provoking social critique, an account of a coming-of-age journey and a compelling study of morality and ethics.
MARY BADHAM, GREGORY PECK, AND BROCK PETERS IN TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1961)
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scalped by this quote from one of my class readings
The Logical Problem of Evil
By Author Eli Kittim 🎓
The problem of evil is a philosophical conundrum that seems to contradict the existence of God. The question is as follows:
How can we reconcile the existence of
suffering and evil in the world with a
supposedly omnibenevolent, omniscient,
and omnipotent God?
At first glance, these two premises seem incompatible. The most well-known presentation of this dilemma is ascribed to the ancient Greek philosopher and sage Epicurus (341–270 bce). He framed the logical problem of evil as follows:
If God is willing to prevent evil, but is unable,
then he’s not all-powerful.
If he’s able to prevent evil, but unwilling,
then he’s not good.
But if he’s both willing and able,
how can evil exist?
And, if he’s neither able nor willing,
then why call him God? [or worship him?]
Epicurus is trying to point out the apparent incompatibility between the existence of evil and that of God. He’s trying to demonstrate that it’s logically impossible for both God and evil to exist. They are at loggerheads with each other. And since we know that evil and suffering exist, it must mean that God does not.
However, the premise that the existence of an omnipotent, omnibenevolent God contradicts the presence of evil is unsound. A squared circle or a married bachelor is certainly a contradiction. But it’s not logically inconsistent to speak of the existence of suffering and an all-loving powerful God in the same breath. Epicurus’ implication is that if God was all-powerful and/or all-loving he would not have allowed suffering or evil to exist. So, his premise presupposes that either an all-powerful, all-loving God exists and suffering does not, or else suffering exists and God does not. But both cannot exist simultaneously.
However, this is a false assumption. Why? Because if God grants human beings free will, then the possibility of choosing good or evil does not explicitly contradict the existence of God. In fact, if the opposite were true and God were to create a world in which people didn’t have free will and always chose the good, there would be no suffering, but neither would there be any freedom. It would be a world of programmed robots, not free people.
And how would we even know what good really is if evil and suffering never existed? After all, in the Bible, God promises to eliminate evil & suffering at the end of the age! So, how can we possibly know if God has good reasons for permitting evil and suffering to exist for a time? The answer is, we do not know. Both biblically and philosophically, good and evil are not mutually exclusive but coexist temporally and ontologically. Thus, it is not illogical for both God and suffering to exist simultaneously. As philosopher William P. Alston conceded, “It is now acknowledged on (almost) all sides that the logical argument is bankrupt” (The Inductive Argument From Evil and the Human Cognitive Condition. Philosophical Perspectives, vol. 5, Philosophy of Religion [1991], pp. 29-67).
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Do We Suffer Because We Have “Free Will”?: Answering Bart Ehrman
By Bible researcher and author Eli Kittim 🎓
In his blog post (entitled “Do We Suffer Because We Have ‘Free Will’?”), Bart Ehrman asked the question whether the Christian response to evil and suffering is sufficient. He asked the question whether or not we suffer because we have so-called “free will.”? He then proceeded to show that in spite of the fact that people can choose to mistreat their fellow man, there are other things, like plagues and natural disasters, that go far beyond human free-will in causing suffering and death, such as droughts, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, diseases, and so on and so forth. Bart Ehrman, therefore, concluded that there is no satisfactory answer. In response, I have created a systematic theology of evil to try to explain how all these phenomena are possible from a biblical perspective and that, unlike science, the Christian response is the only one which demonstrates that suffering has a meaning and a purpose. So let’s start at the beginning.
The presence of evil is not limited to the brain and to human thought and behavior (i.e. free will), but it permeates all of creation and the natural order. If you study diseases and viruses, you will quickly come to realize that they act as if they were highly intelligent and sophisticated computer programs that are intended to hack and infiltrate a host (e.g. they mimic, hide, and impersonate it) and then, at the right time, they duplicate themselves inside the nucleus (or the headquarters of the host, so to speak) in an attempt to overwhelm and destroy it. It’s as if diseases, say, like cancer, have a mind of their own. This represents evil at the biological, chemical, genetic, or physiological level.
We can also detect this battle of good and evil being played out in the physical world of matter and antimatter. When matter and antimatter come into close contact, they mutually annihilate each other. One could say that evil, death, and destruction exist just as much in the material world as they do in human consciousness. The presence of evil, death, and destruction in the physical world consists of antimatter, which comprises antiprotons, antineutrons, and so on. Therefore, life and death are played out on a cosmic scale between matter and antimatter, as well as between health and well-being, on the one hand, and illness and disease, on the other. In fact, Paul stresses that the whole of creation will one day be reversed from its present state of entropy in which the universe is gradually declining into chaos and disorder (Romans 8:21-22):
the creation itself also will be set free from
its slavery to corruption into the freedom of
the glory of the children of God. For we
know that the whole creation groans and
suffers the pains of childbirth together until
now.
So, when we speak about the problem of evil in our world, it isn’t as simple as reducing it to “free will” and saying that humans choose to act in accordance with either life or death. That’s because this destructive force also permeates the physical world (e.g. natural disasters, plagues, etc.), as well as the metaphysical world. In the Bible, Ephesians 2:2 attributes the origin of all this cosmic death and entropy to an autonomous metaphysical being who is said to be the "prince of the power of the air,” and whom John 12:31 describes as the "ruler of this world.” In 2 Corinthians 4:4, Paul attests to the enormous power that this entity possesses by calling him “the god of this world,” as if he has ontological status and somehow reigns over the entire world and its people. In other words, these computer-like viruses that we call “diseases,” as well as the antimatter that tries to destroy matter, are somehow guided by this malevolent metaphysical intelligence that is invisible to the naked eye. That’s precisely why Revelation 9:11 refers to this supernatural being as a king called “Abaddon”——whose name in Hebrew means “destruction”——who is said to be the chief angel of the abyss!
Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, realized that both life and death exist side by side and reside within human beings. He called these principles eros (life) and thanatos (death). You may call them good and evil, or God and the devil, if you will. The point is, there’s a cosmic battle taking place on many levels of existence (biological, physical, natural, cognitive, and metaphysical) between life and death, between creation and destruction, between being and nonbeing, between matter and antimatter, between good and evil, and ultimately between God and the devil!
This cosmic war comes to a head during the consummation of the ages when the universal battle between the gods will take place. We are told in the Bible that life will ultimately triumph over death, and that light will prevail over darkness. This cosmic battle is summarized in Revelation 12:7-8. That’s why in 1 Corinthians 15:23-28, we are told that, in the end-times, Christ will abolish “all rule and all authority and power” and reign over them. “The last enemy that will be abolished is death.” Thus all physical laws of the universe, including the entities that have been acting autonomously, will finally come under the control of Christ. At that time, “All things are put in subjection” to Christ. That’s precisely why there will be a new universe, namely, a new heavens and a new earth (Rev. 21:1). So, there is much more at stake here than one realizes. It’s true that humanity is at a precipice. But more than that, the future of the entire universe, and of “reality“ itself, is at stake.
Fortunately, Revelation 21:4 informs us that this cosmic battle, which has been causing so much pain and suffering for hundreds of thousands of years, will finally come to an end, and life will ultimately triumph over death. All the cosmic forces of death and destruction will be completely abolished and eliminated. This is, in fact, the ultimate purpose of the universe and of humanity itself. Thus, Revelation gives us something worth looking forward to:
He will wipe away every tear from their
eyes; and there will no longer be any death;
there will no longer be any mourning, or
crying, or pain; the first things have passed
away.
In 1 Corinthians 2:9, Paul reveals this future world as a fantastic vacation spot of utter bliss, contentment, fun, joy, peace, happiness, and satisfaction:
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have
entered into the heart of man The things
which God has prepared for those who love
Him.
Lady Midnight | Cassandra Clare
— EURIPIDES, from ‘Medea’, trans. Philip Vellacott.
Fuck you
is there an artist that you like the entirety of their discography
Tallytober day 2 - good and evil
I drew the monster from turn the lights off and im really happy with the shading (also not really sure how i did it)
She’s heaven with a little hell a little light with a little dark
This drawing is perfect god!!
welcome to tally hall!!!!!!!!
The exact same energy. Well said Oscar Wilde! Well said Stephen!
“Why do people like a character who’s committed war crimes but hate this other character just because they’re annoying” because it’s fiction Susan, and being annoying in fiction is a greater sin than being a supervillain, because it won’t make me want to read about them. It isn’t difficult to understand
IT FINALLY CAME!!!!!!!!!!!!
