'Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.' Fyodor Dostoevsky




The road of least resistance & the way of water?




Evil is boring I told her. Is it? she deeply wondered while raising her eyebrows. Oh yes it has only one goal in mind and the 1000+ ways evil can use to reach its goal are predictable and when Evil thinks of another way it only creates a new path and what happens next? - it is up to us. If you let evil get what it thinks it needs it will slowly self-destruct in the forever decaying environment it creates for itself.That is counterintuitive for the evil it only understands the innocence, the righteousness of pure intention it feels within and the screaming emptiness that eats it alive Who said that is easy to be Evil?

Some times evil can be like an experience - hungry child: am a ticking bomb how fast can you disarm me and what will happen if you don’t and for how long shall I let you believe what you believe? But hey as long as it serves me I am good until I start feeling bored of course then I will get creative see what happens Can anyone join me so I will not feel as alone & surrounded by idiots? That doesn’t imply that you have to be as evil just that you can share what you focus your attention on and how you cultivate your intelligence while enjoying the euphoric emptiness and the humble amazement you feel while observing silence your own silence not imaginary silence - someone else’s sillence ah yes and that brings me to the at times incorrect feedback

the difference is that evil only registers and translates the feedback it gets from others - when it suits the desired purpose otherwise the brain registers but does not translate “meaningless feedback” while getting what it needs by perhaps overpowering the other individual etc. Evil takes responsibility only for the environment it wants to create the problem is that as long as it feels that it lives in the desired environment the evil automatically assumes that everything will keep working as they should - as the evil has observed the function of various elements outside the environment it creates but that is not an accurate picture of the reality

Now the evil has two choices. 1) Live happily ever after until the decaying of the desired environment comes to completion and starts over or learn how to understand the elements and interact with them by being present and a) the evil might enjoy the never ending process of becoming, the continuous transformation of everything including itself for no reason at all and it might no longer feel the need to create the once upon a time desired environment b) it will understand that the specific elements of the desired environment have an expiration date  “break for no apparent reason but that must be their nature”and keep replacing them until(hopefully)it gets tired and

Hmm I can give you a quite disturbing but conceivably relevant example but it will be about primitive evil: A human this time a male enters a house inside that house there is a dead body a female human body The primitive evil thinks: “Oh a female body I know how to make it bring me pleasure and this time there will not be any complications” So he goes ahead and has sex with the dead body but the dead body is slowly decomposing and the primitive evil after few days realizes that this is the nature of a dead body You use it to bring your pleasure until it decomposes and then your try to find another one until it is time to move on.

You can take my example and apply it on human relations One starts a relationship with a specific outcome in mind when the other person slowly dies inside the other person moves on to another human because this is what human nature is and he moves on to another person and perhaps this time (surprisingly enough) that person lasts longer than all the others and the evil thinks: Oh that is strange that is not how things work …

That is what I call the road of least resistance but not the way of the water the one Laozi philosopher and poet of ancient china mentions Oh and did you know that Tao means way and according to wikipedia: “In the foundational text of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching, Laozi explains that Tao is not a 'name' for a 'thing' but the underlying natural order of the universe whose ultimate essence is difficult to circumscribe and is likened to silence. The Tao is "eternally nameless” (Dao De Jing-32.Laozi)”

… and if you think about it what evil cannot control restrict is the underlying natural order of the universe Even the universe within every human being and the way of the water seems to be an effortless action but it is not What happens when the water touches a stone or when it touches the sand? It takes under consideration the but I am sure that by now you get what I mean


 

 





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Written on 2014-12-26 at 01:31

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Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
Nobody does evil. People do what they have to do, what they think that they should do, or what they believe that they are justified in doing. Their actions do not become evil until someone else decides that they are.
2014-12-29



The Tao Te Ching is an amazing text. It basically says that if you can name it, then it is not the Tao. Paradoxical, but somehow makes perfect sense. I love your essay here on evil. Your thoughts are always interesting and thought-provoking.
2014-12-28