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[grokkthesnark]

So this weekend was pretty much one of the best weekends I've had all school year. It was crazy busy but a lot of fun, let me try to sum it up in a rapid-fire make no sense manor

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[irma_c]

The murder mystery went really well indeed; even though I didn't figure out who it was correctly. :'( And the food was waaaay tasty, which is always a plus. :) Critiquing your profs paper sounds like alot of fun, especially with the topic. At any rate, laters!

"Gorbash!"

[sunnygreen]

"Without evil, good has no meaning." Meaning, without the contrast of an opposite force, one extreme alone could just as well be in the middle as out on the end of the line of morality. Contrast is how we define our ideas, where our beliefs lie, how we describe and visualize good and evil. Without good, there would be no evil. I suppose you get the idea.

Thanks, Flight Of Dragons cartoon movie, for teaching me about philosophy at such a tender age. I'll remember you always.

I'm curious, though. What's your argument behind "if God doesn't exist, then I don't really see how good and evil could exist" ? Illuminate.

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[irma_c]

Hmmm.. I agree with Andy on "if God doesn't exist, then I don't really see how good and evil could exist." This is my reasoning, which is probably different from his: for me, if Biblical stuff wasn't there to say what's right and wrong, and if I didn't take that as having some kind of authority... I dunno, doesn't it just seem like, well, everything's actually really relative? Sorry I can't speak properly, but, for me I guess... without an authority that to me is God-sent, so to speak, anything could be a go from some or other point of view? I'm gonna shut it now I suppose, because me and sense don't get along.

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[grokkthesnark]

Well, I'm with Marci more or less. Right now, and its changed before so it could change again, I would define evil as the absence of good. The only truly good thing in existence is God, so if God didn't exist, and for sake for argument we did somehow, than there would be no good. Which I suppose you could take to mean that everything would be evil...more might come later. Maybe I shall post the appropriate parts of the paper.
Most of its fairly specific to the teachers paper though, so it would make little sense unless you read his currently unpublished paper, which is fairly boring I'm afraid to say.