Good Vs. Evil
David Berman • May 1, 2024
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We VoluntarilY live in a very Balkanized, categorized, subdivided, separated, grouped, sectioned, labeled, society. 


We VoluntarilY separate into:


White and Blac

Rich and Poor

Oppressors and Oppressed

Colonized and Colonizers

Strong and Weak

Truth and Your Truth


And we create a nonporous wall between the groups. You are one or the other. You cannot be both, even a small part of the other. And you cannot change sides. And being part of one group often forces you into other categorizations. 


Good and evil are, in modern times, applied with the same net effect - of being placed on one side of the division between two categorized groups. 


Good and evil are also, in modern times, given the same leeway on an individualized basis in that you can have “your” truth, you can also have your own definition of good and evil.


Einstein’s Theory of Relativity was never intended to be based on anything other than physical bodies. For sure not a person’s values, or how they define good from evil, or how they divide up the world into their own categories. 


If good and evil are relative, if white is white and black is black - or oppressed is oppressed and oppressors are oppressors, and so on - - then all white people are bad, potentially, and all weak people are good, and so on. 


Is there ever an instance where 100% of all people in any category are either good or evil? Yet we are witnessing this first hand [again] now. 


If you think Israel is evil and Hamas is good then you need to take a hard stop and think about his post. 


You may think that Israel is a Jewish State totally composed of Jews, all white, all oppressors, all colonizers, all strong people, all of them rich. You could not be further from the Truth. 20% are Arabs of whom over two thirds of them strongly support and stand behind the State. In fact, they refuse to move out of Israel. I could go on and on to dispel all the other incorrect sectionings of Israel, but will not. Feel free to do that yourself.


My point is simple, and two-fold.


The current environment in which we again VoluntarilY divide people is not only dangerous but also wrong.


Our current environment in which we define good and evil in relative terms is dangerous and wrong.


And if we do not VoluntarilY put a stop to this, our future is going to be highly diminished.


Wishes to all for a great day, each one a gift

Hugs too,

David/ 


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