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10/31/2013 3:17:11 AM
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Humanity must be doomed.
I'm about to go all Emo and Edgy so watch out.
A thought occurred to me after watching The Legend of Korra: Beginnings Part 2, that no matter how much we may strive for the greater good or work towards it, we can never eliminate the rotting part of us that causes War and Strife. Without Darkness, there can be no Light, but they must always be present together or not at all. And so despite our efforts to better the world and ourselves, there's always going to be that corrupt part that continually throws all efforts down the drain, so what do we have to work for?
A temporary fix to a permanent problem? Or do we just embrace that Darkness and make it what pushes us forward and hope it's more malleable than the Human Condition?
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7 RepliesI've questioned this myself a lot and it's really hard to pin point a definitive answer. There's probably lots of answers or quite possibly none at all. The way I [i]personally[/i] enjoy seeing it is that the good far out weighs the bad in humanity. And as long as we strive to do our part to be kind and helpful to others we can beat the "bad" away. I've seen small acts of kindness, and received a good share from complete strangers and friend, so much in my life that it'a impossible for me to hate anyone. Everyone has some sort of good in them. And good can be defined in so many different ways.
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i read a casual book on the subject which was really interesting, unfortunately the plot lost my interest because it moved away from "this action was evil but in the eyes of the man committing the crime it was good." the whole yin/yang thing is very interesting. i enjoy that view point very much.
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5 RepliesI'm glad you get here, man. I was getting kind of lonely. The concept of Yin and Yang is nothing new but the way you embrace it doesn't have to be an archaic method. I know there isn't simply black and simply white just like I know they are things that are inherently wrong and things that are inherently right. For every good I do, a bad cancels it out. For every homeless man I feed, another man is evicted. For every person's day I make better with a simple smile, there is somebody who is being verbally abused. Does that I mean I just stop and let go? Do I let "the dark" overrun everything I stand for because it is as everlasting as what I stand for? No, I keep pushing on. I acknowledge the bad and recognize it's power but I don't let it stop me from doing the good. Because I know for every person being verbally abused right now, there is another person whose day I can make with a smile. Every man being evicted will have someone to turn to for help, unless I just stop. Then the Dark wins and the Light fades away. For behind every bad deed is a good deed waiting to happen. If you never make that good deed happen, all you have is bad deeds. Don't embrace the Dark. Acknowledge it's presence but continue to walk strong.
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How about you go shove your dick in a butt, hm?
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3 RepliesI am of the opinion, that despite our flaws, human beings truly are good at heart. I've seen too many acts of kindness to think otherwise.
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3 Repliesy perception y u descend 2 realm of edgy [spoiler]i know you're genuinely curious, but you're much better off reading a wikipedia article on philosophical approaches to life than you are trying to deal with pseudoscience over here[/spoiler]
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