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06-23-2006, 02:02 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
What is the root of all evil?
Evil's not relevant. For every thing it clarifies, it muddies two. 
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#53
06-23-2006, 02:03 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
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Any views on spirituality and psychadelics? There are worse maps. But a map doesn't get you any closer to your destination. [/ QUOTE ] Are there better maps? Do maps matter?
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#55
06-23-2006, 02:08 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
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What is the root of all evil? Evil's not relevant. For every thing it clarifies, it muddies two. [/ QUOTE ] William Burroughs states in the book Naked Lunch that the "root of all evil" is total need. He went on to say that heroin junkies are in total need of junk and will do anything to get their hands on it. This seems to make logical sense to me. I think you dropped the ball on this one bisonbison. Surely you can't say evil isn't relevant to all those who died on the field of fire and honor and in concentration camps.
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#56
06-23-2006, 02:12 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
Isn't the root of all love total need as well (mother and infant)? As for the casualties you speak of, wouldn't evil be more of a coping mechanism for them than anything? Clearly many of those who murdered them didn't believe their actions to be evil. Who's to say who's right?
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#57
06-23-2006, 02:16 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
William Burroughs states in the book Naked Lunch that the "root of all evil" is total need. He went on to say that heroin junkies are in total need of junk and will do anything to get their hands on it. This seems to make logical sense to me.
Let me just repeat that middle sentence for you: Heroin junkies are in total need of junk and will do anything to get their hands on it. This I pretty much agree with. But evil? No. Need is the root of all need. Surely you can't say evil isn't relevant to all those who died on the field of fire and honor and in concentration camps. It's not relevant to them now. They're dead. The people that they were will never be again, and can hold no grudge against the living. We should take peaceful steps to prevent suffering, and in that is encompassed the call to peacably prevent people from hurting each other. But there are better labels than "evil" if you want to convince people. There are ones that make less of a case for the speaker's superiority.
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#58
06-23-2006, 02:57 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
Is the Philsophy professor at UCLA or the people on this forum really any more enlightened than the local teenaged girl mall rats?
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#59
06-23-2006, 03:24 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
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I just started reading Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. Is this a book I should finish? Never read it. [/ QUOTE ] This could be taken as a statement or as a command. English rules.
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06-23-2006, 05:39 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
Imagine a teleportation device that reads every atom of your body, disassembles the atoms, and creates an exact copy somewhere else. Would the copy be you or someone else?
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