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Good without evil is positive without negative, left without right, up without down, hot without cold. And like all those other pairs, good and evil are relati

Good without evil is positive without negative, left without right, up without down, hot without cold. And like all those other pairs, good and evil are relative, as are happiness and misery. It's for this reason that absolute avoidance of "sin" is misguided, even assuming we could reliably identify it. We were always meant to eat from the Tree of Knowledge; it was there for a reason, and the alternative would've been a rather stagnant and meaningless existence - certainly devoid of suffering, but also of joy.

dsego 4y ago
> Good without evil is positive without negative, left without right, up without down, hot without cold. And like all those other pairs, good and evil are relative, as are happiness and misery. This resonates with what I've read about the gnostic understanding of the creation. The demiurge (the God of this world) created this world to have a ratio of 2/3 light and 1/3 darkness. Suffering and conflict is produced to create tension and perpetuate the system. http://www.trickedbythelight.com/tbtl/nde-transcript.html http://www.trickedbythelight.com/tbtl/nde-transcript.html