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God has nothing to do with the evil in the world.

Exaltist Ethan

Bridging the Gap Between Believers and Skeptics
When I answer the question, "why is there evil in the world" in the Select Smart quiz I always answer with, "Not listening to God, your inner voice, can lead to wrongdoing." And likewise, whenever I do something that my conscious agrees with, it almost always often leads to good things happening. However, while my conscious is good at helping me figure out good and evil, sometimes I lack the willpower to keep things perfect, and slack off on chores or cleaning. While I do not consider it evil to keep an unkempt apartment, likewise sometimes I just don't do things because my standards for what is good can be very low. I keep certain things clean and tend not to do the other things, such as a moderate amount of dusting or vacuuming, as often as I should. I think what ends up happening is some people's standards conflicts with others and some people can get offended from the low standards I bring forth at times. This leads to conflict, arguing, and if it's bad enough, people will split from each other because of the issue.

I consider the good I do for myself and others to be so much more meaningful than the bad I do and the lack of good I sometimes bring to the table. For the past few years I've even considered myself nearly entirely sanctified, or living a near-sinless life. Yes, I do bad things once in awhile, and sometimes I do lack doing good for myself and others, but I almost always listen to the voice in my head and it guides me to the right direction. In fact, the last time I actively didn't was in 2015 when I bought myself nicotine patches that ended up screwing me over in the end and I had to be on Wellbutrin for a few months to actually curve a slight addiction to cigarettes I had then.

Not all bad happens because people don't listen to their inner voice. Some bad happens in nature just because that's how nature proceeds to do things. The way I see it, all bad happens because someone or something doesn't recognize the divinity of something. A tornado happens and destroys houses and kills people because it didn't recognize the utility that the houses and people had. If the tornado was a conscious entity that could at one point determine that destroying houses and killing people is bad, it wouldn't do those things, but nature isn't as self-aware as humans, thus, it causes problems for those who are self-aware enough to realize that it becomes a problem to society.

Sometimes I'm not self-aware enough to realize how dirty my apartment gets. My floor is usually fine, but when it comes to dusting, vacuuming, and a few other things I lack enough self-awareness to realize that it can become a problem at times when people come over. Luckily my friends have the same lack of self-awareness when it comes to keeping things clean, but when my mom comes over she's often cleaning my apartment for me, and criticizing me for keeping it so dirty. So, needless to say, I don't have my parents over very often. The problem is, if something becomes dusty, I don't really recognize that as a problem and don't feel the need to make it an issue which I have to clean it up right away. Sometimes I don't realize how much better things can look when I do proper cleaning of things, thereby, now acknowledging the divinity of the utilities in my apartment. If I had more self respect for my things I would clean them more often, but unfortunately, there are just certain things I consider problems and other things I don't and dusting and vacuuming is really low on my list of things to do every day.
 
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SalixIncendium

अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
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I suppose it would be good if u could get all the ingredients naturally and cook it naturally. Good luck with that. Haha
I’ve never used supernatural flour or cream cheese. How else would one get the ingredients if not naturally?
 

Jimmy

King Phenomenon
Red velvet cake comes from nature?
I take back what I said about cake and bombs being neither good nor bad cuz to make the ingredients to make both cause pollution. Never really thought about it. So thank you. Our conversation has taught me that cake is bad. Haha
 

Jimmy

King Phenomenon
I think God and all he made is good and Everything Man makes is 'bad'. I mean this is really a dumb conversation when you think about it. Yeah sure it's bad if we're talking of purity but we need all the things we make to survive as a whole. So really it's all good. When it comes to acts, well there's good ones and bad. When it comes to natural disasters me and god disagree. Haha. Well apparently according to the bible. God says it's his own evil doing but I say nah. Haha
 

Jimmy

King Phenomenon
The sun isn't all good. Solar flares for instance.
I hear ya but I would say that's nature which I view as good. It's unfortunate. Tsunamis, hurricanes etc. Would I call them evil? Nah semantics... A world without these things could be worse. Who knows.

I suppose I could say certain natural things are bad. Like hurricanes etc. But take them away. Idk. We might experience what bad really is. Then it might be evil at that point. So are they really bad? This conversation is dumb when you think about it. All I know is natural disasters hurt a lot of people. God bless them.
 
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