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Originally Posted by 9th Engineer
Give up on what exactly? That was certainly a sudden outburst
EDIT: RK, that still blows my mind, have you gone over any sort of explanation of that somewhere?
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A couple of times. The very, very, short version:
There are several aspects of it... a human cannot be as simple as "bad" or "good".
As a Buddhist I think our spiritual nature is altruistic at heart (as far as what our inner-self wants). Scientifically, this follows for a pack-animal. The universe is a mechanical structure, trying to assign animistic attributes to anything such as "evil" or "benevolent" is just lazy.
But, as an atheist (not all Buddhists are atheists, I happen to be, just making sure no one jumps to conclusions) I just don't see the benefit of such mythology and self-delusion. Evil/benevolence is just a way of hiding from having to figure out the deeper meaning/connections in what has happened.