The Way I Figure It

[Trilby]

I have read your posts for about two days...most of them, quite frankly, bore me with their Unibomber Manifesto-type going on and on and on...ad nauseam. You bore me, tw. You can't sum up. I'm a child of Mtv--grab my attention or get lost. If you find this offensive go fight for a candidate within your realm. Like Bush. Oh, do I offend you? Did I break your concentration? Get over yourself. I have defined evil for myself. You seem to think I endorse another Inquisition--it's people like you who are truly alarming. I stand by my post---Hitler's Germany was evil... you obviously think it was all a matter of perspective. For you it was a cakewalk.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Brianna

You bore me, tw. You can't sum up. I'm a child of Mtv--grab my attention or get lost.

Sorry that I question things so extensively as to discover boring underlying concepts. There are very good summaries in that post that will never be comprehended by skimming. Reality was never that simple - except in bad fiction.

'Good verses evil' is nice for simplicities of biblical parables and for children's stories. But where is 'good and evil' in Rod Serling stories (ie The Twilight Zone). Do you remember the Twilight Zone? Everytime the obvious decision was based upon 'good vs evil', then the decision was wrong. Why? In the real world, there is no black and white. The real world is complicated by many perspectives - the many shades of gray. 'Good verses evil' is how we simplify the world for children and for the under- educated. 'Good verses evil' resulted in the Spanish Inquistion, empowered Hitler's Nazi party, and caused the unjustified invasion of Iraq. Ironically if we really believed in 'good verses evil', then American divisions would be in Afghanistan looking for Osama bin Laden. IOW the 'good verses evil' mentality even has us decieved into invading the wrong country.

Only the simple minded - ie. those who became Hitler's Brown Shirts - view the world in terms of 'good and evil'. Hitler's Brown Shirts rooted out and intimidated what to them was obviously 'evil'. Reality: 'good' people are centrists - far more tolerant - view the world in its many complex perspectives. Thank your god that both Kennedy and Krushchev did not view the world in 'good verses evil'. We still exist because Kennedy instead saw the world in perspectives - and therefore avoided WWIII. 'Good verses evil' thinking makes extremists so dangerous. Those who view everything in such black and white are ideal recruits for extremists. That is the MTV bottom line. 'Good verses evil' thinking unfortunately results in evil.