- Jan 31, 2011
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Gurfateh
Lying in bed last night, I could not help but think of all the evil in the world. How does one become evil, is evil embedded in all of us, just waiting to appear?, My wife was attempting to watch Jaws, Alfie was snoring, and Dan was snug between us. What do you think of god and evil I asked,. my wife does not like the use of the word god, she finds it has abrahamic leanings, I also found out that she does not like the word evil either, abrahamism again!.
I tend to use the word consonance these days when I talk to my wife about the creator, as it is a term, she finds comfortable. I could see my wife was tired, so I said I would think on it and talk when I had thought it through, she smiled and turned the volume up, my wife does not think like I do, she just 'does', if that makes sense, I think and search, and end up at the same place where my wife already is.
Several hours later, the shark was dead, the tv off, everyone was asleep, the best I could manage was that evil is where you put your gratification above the comfort of another. It seemed to work with most 'evil' concepts I could think of,. so I woke my wife, my wife is completely used to being woken for one reason or another, headache she mumbled, no, no, i think i have the answer, and repeated my thoughts, she thought for a while, evil is an abrahamic concept, with a view of control, true evil that can be found in say Hitler, is more a mental illness, what you have discovered the meaning of, is the word bad, and turned over and fell asleep again.
So, if god is an abrahamic word, and it is the eternal true order of things that we hold in such high regard, surely truth is a concept of huge importance in combatting this bad/evil, I woke my wife again, she turned over and said, today I had to tell a man who had 2 weeks to live that we are doing everything we can to make sure he survives, and that he could have another 3 months, what do you propose I tell him in the name of truth, experience tells me that if I tell him the truth, he will lose the will to live, but if I lie,
he may survive long enough for his treatment to work. She fell back asleep.
This creative force, this consonance, life force, I am not sure the word god can describe it, but we believe that it is in everything and everywhere, so therefore it must be in all that is evil too, the rapists, the murderers and possibly morris dancers. When a rapist is in the action of rape, it is hard to believe the eternal one is present somewhere in this action, but he has to be!. Surely the act of rape is similar to the act of me stealing my wife's aloo prontha, because I want it, and I do not care about the consequences to her, just by a smaller degree,
If I were Khalsa, I would say that any action that I do, that puts my gratification above the comfort of a fellow living thing is taking me away from consonance, and in that moment, I have no bond with consonance, all I have is my gratification, which is a poor substitute, but I would only know that as Khalsa. So, to touch on a subject like drink, I may come home as Khalsa, have a drink, and spend the next 45 mins outside of consonace, later, I will realise how empty and unfulfilling that feeling was, and I will be not guilty, but sorry that for a whole 45 mins I was off the network, like a mobile phone with no connection, quite useless for making calls, but good for playing games, I may find myself trying to make up for that lost 45 mins, it is not a case of angering god, or needing to feel guilt, just a matter of a lost 45 mins in manmukh land, and the loss of that time that will hurt, so that, to me, clarified what I would call small evils
I have to concede that the timeless one, present in everything, everywhere, is also present in the most evil person, is present in the wicked and the bad, but in varying degrees, like a mobile phone signal, it is our connection that defines the degree of evil and badness we are capable of, and those that lose the connection? Maybe they are the ones that are the enemies that must be smitten, we all clearly have the ability to regain that connection, but if we push against consonance does it push back, is retribution part of consonance.
Is god present in the truly evil,and if he is, how do we deal with that
Lying in bed last night, I could not help but think of all the evil in the world. How does one become evil, is evil embedded in all of us, just waiting to appear?, My wife was attempting to watch Jaws, Alfie was snoring, and Dan was snug between us. What do you think of god and evil I asked,. my wife does not like the use of the word god, she finds it has abrahamic leanings, I also found out that she does not like the word evil either, abrahamism again!.
I tend to use the word consonance these days when I talk to my wife about the creator, as it is a term, she finds comfortable. I could see my wife was tired, so I said I would think on it and talk when I had thought it through, she smiled and turned the volume up, my wife does not think like I do, she just 'does', if that makes sense, I think and search, and end up at the same place where my wife already is.
Several hours later, the shark was dead, the tv off, everyone was asleep, the best I could manage was that evil is where you put your gratification above the comfort of another. It seemed to work with most 'evil' concepts I could think of,. so I woke my wife, my wife is completely used to being woken for one reason or another, headache she mumbled, no, no, i think i have the answer, and repeated my thoughts, she thought for a while, evil is an abrahamic concept, with a view of control, true evil that can be found in say Hitler, is more a mental illness, what you have discovered the meaning of, is the word bad, and turned over and fell asleep again.
So, if god is an abrahamic word, and it is the eternal true order of things that we hold in such high regard, surely truth is a concept of huge importance in combatting this bad/evil, I woke my wife again, she turned over and said, today I had to tell a man who had 2 weeks to live that we are doing everything we can to make sure he survives, and that he could have another 3 months, what do you propose I tell him in the name of truth, experience tells me that if I tell him the truth, he will lose the will to live, but if I lie,
he may survive long enough for his treatment to work. She fell back asleep.
This creative force, this consonance, life force, I am not sure the word god can describe it, but we believe that it is in everything and everywhere, so therefore it must be in all that is evil too, the rapists, the murderers and possibly morris dancers. When a rapist is in the action of rape, it is hard to believe the eternal one is present somewhere in this action, but he has to be!. Surely the act of rape is similar to the act of me stealing my wife's aloo prontha, because I want it, and I do not care about the consequences to her, just by a smaller degree,
If I were Khalsa, I would say that any action that I do, that puts my gratification above the comfort of a fellow living thing is taking me away from consonance, and in that moment, I have no bond with consonance, all I have is my gratification, which is a poor substitute, but I would only know that as Khalsa. So, to touch on a subject like drink, I may come home as Khalsa, have a drink, and spend the next 45 mins outside of consonace, later, I will realise how empty and unfulfilling that feeling was, and I will be not guilty, but sorry that for a whole 45 mins I was off the network, like a mobile phone with no connection, quite useless for making calls, but good for playing games, I may find myself trying to make up for that lost 45 mins, it is not a case of angering god, or needing to feel guilt, just a matter of a lost 45 mins in manmukh land, and the loss of that time that will hurt, so that, to me, clarified what I would call small evils
I have to concede that the timeless one, present in everything, everywhere, is also present in the most evil person, is present in the wicked and the bad, but in varying degrees, like a mobile phone signal, it is our connection that defines the degree of evil and badness we are capable of, and those that lose the connection? Maybe they are the ones that are the enemies that must be smitten, we all clearly have the ability to regain that connection, but if we push against consonance does it push back, is retribution part of consonance.
Is god present in the truly evil,and if he is, how do we deal with that
) a lot many times, the call wouldn't go through. When it does, you can tell him to move to an area with better network reception. What he does is up to him.
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