friend as reply to Strange

Damn good passages.

I also don't think evil will conquer. But that's not to say that I think 'humanity' will conquer either

because by (my) definition 

humanity

doesn't aim to conquer. while evil does.

it's kind of like how the U.S could never 'win' the 

Vietnam War

but it wasn't like the Vietnamese could 'win' either. They could but last and survive and then move on.

I think that's what 'good' or humanity is like here.

Also reminds me of 

serial killers

-- been re-reading 

Jo Nesbo

's 

Harry Hole

series.

Serial Killers aim to kill (conquer)

you can't really win against them by trying to conquer kill them. They'll just keep doing their thing or if they are caught a new one will come and take their place.

you can only hope as a the hunted to survive. It would be absurd to think that the way to win is to become a serial killer yourself.

what's happened in the 

macro

environment that you often lament about is i believe people thinking they can defeat evil by becoming another version of evil which they consider good.

this is also why i like the zen buddhist principles of detachment from identity and desire. because it is one of the only codified doctrines of how not to just get into an endless loop of aiming to be more righteous

I see this as related to the death of our 

humanity

argument you touched on in 

Bad is not Evil Gabriel Greco

 

I don't believe in the literal 

God

but I do believe in the attributes/values that 

Christians

assign to him.

With that said, I find the death of our humanity to be the synonym of the death of god for people.

so that's my way of saying 'god' is alive in my existence. 

i'll admit that he was dead for many years of my life around the 18-28 portion of my life

lines

 

Evil is a special type of chaos. Evil is not a thing but a set of conditions that spiral out of control.

--

I enjoyed reading this because the first part led me to be thinking what is expressed in that line above.

I believe 

evil

is the 

debt

finally being paid back to the piper for small things that compound and 'spiral out of control'

these small things are little things that couldn't be considered evil on it's own. just little everyday things... but things that rob us of our 

humanity

our world is an aggregate of these small poisonings and thus i don't think we can ever expect to salvage the debt of 7 plus billion souls.

humanity can only be found in oasis' shared by small scale relationships.