What is evil? and where does it come from?

[Clockwood]

Originally posted by adj
evil "for a benefit" is still evil; consider pagan rituals where innocent people were sacrificed with what was then considered a benefit; consider the mongol expansion throughout the middle east;

Its evil if the society believes it to be evil.

Personally I believe the monol expansion was one of the more benevolent ones in history. Far FAR better than the british or spanish expansions. The mongols enforced no national religion, taxed only very lightly, and were good to captured civillians as long as they did not try to stab the mongols in the back. Can many civilizations say the same.

I am sure every civilization around now is doing somthing later generations will se as barbaric. Heck, most ancient pagan groups co practiced human sacrafices refuced to kill unwilling victems. To do so would be an affront to the gods. THe druid priests willingly sacraficed themselves in times of need.

One exception is the South American Moche indians.

 

[adj]

good. without a lot of thought,, i would only say that to do what is "acceptable" per society may not be "acceptable dave

 

[TruthSeeker]

sourcetruthmol and yumyum,

Evil exists in human brains only. Since our first human ancestors became able to think in terms of “I?instead of “We? the challenge of our existence on Earth was joined.

We have the awesome abilities to record our history, to ponder the past, present and future, to plan, to predict, to calculate, etc. With those abilities, however, comes the potential to plan and carry out unspeakable acts of cruelty for personal gain. This is evil.

All people are born with perfect Lifesources consisting only of love and understanding. We are born non-violent, not even in thought. Whenever we put the I before the We, we ignore our Lifeplan, offend each other, offend the Source, and contemplate evil thoughts, or worse.

Any notion that suggests evil is somewhere “out there?is misguided at best. The evil we are here to contend with is entirely within our human thought processes, and within our ability to interfere with the plans of the Source.

The Source cannot experience evil directly, but the Source’s understanding of human evil is growing through our life experiences.

there is no good or evil everything just is. to use an example I seen some where else, if it rains on someones wedding and runis it but at the same time waters someones corn crops is the rain good or evil? It is nethier it just is.

You are both right. Evil is created in the mind. We don't born with it. It's a state of the mind, subjected by our judgement (hence the "just is" thing...). It's not even real, it is just an illusion. Evil is simply separation from the source. There is no darkness, there is just abscence of Light...