FWD from GR: What is evil?

[Guest guest]

> > Do you believe in evil?

 

> > How do you define evil and how to

> > define an evil person?

 

 

> For me, it's gotten very simple.

> It's all about the heart response:

 

 

> If my heart closes or constricts

> in response to something someone

> says or does....or to something

> that happened, I would tend to view

> him/them/it as " evil " .

 

 

Closing Heart [possibly] = State of Fear?

 

 

>

> And vice versa: someone or something

> triggers the experience in me of

> an opened or expansive heart,

 

 

Expansive Heart [possibly] = State of Love ?

 

 

> I would tend to label it/him/them

> as " goodness " .

>

> Heck of it is, this constriction or

> openness response depends more on

> my own 'heart condition' than the

> actions or heart conditions of

> those others'.

 

 

I have read that evil breeds evil i.e. when

someone acts in anger, in hate, in violence

towards others... others automatically and

naturally 'react' in the same way.

 

 

For that reason, I have started seeing that

being 'noble' and 'evil' is more about what

you choose to 'serve' less about 'who you

really are'!

 

 

Potential for anger, hate, fear, greed,

reactivity and love, reason, forgiveness

and courage might be present in all of us

at all the time and, we may not have a

choice there. Further, " fear " [or anger]

might be a natural first response to an attack,

we may not have a choice there too.

 

 

Being 'human' [conscious] might mean being

conscious enough to be able to " choose " which

potential to serve among multiple possibilities

that are present within us. Choosing to serve Love,

Forgiveness and Reason means acting and being 'noble'.

 

 

Being blinded by reactivity, hate or anger, and,

thus unable to choose, or, intentionally choosing

to serve greed and fear means acting and being 'evil'.

 

 

At least, that is what my current theory of

good and evil is.

 

Regards,

ac