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To: sea_urchin who wrote (21258)	6/20/2004 2:20:48 PM
From: Jamey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81507

<<There is no good and bad -- there is only what there is.>> This statement is definitely outside the bounds of any culture. I am not aware of any tribe or people in any time that has not developed a culture of what is considered good and evil. We live in a infinitely defined world where antithetical use of all language is assumed. good-bad. Black-white. Good-white, Black-bad. Your statement begs the question. How do we, as a culture, ever break the boundaries of good-bad? I know there must be a language of understanding - perhaps between the Angelic hosts if nowhere else that can exist in a culture or world that does not use this system of good-bad as a method of controlling the masses. Do you have any further comment on what circumstances could or have occurred that would cause anyone to have a culture of non antithetical thinking? (please understand that I know of no other way to ask this except in a plodding, simple way.) smile James

To: sea_urchin who wrote (21258)	6/24/2004 5:28:43 PM
From: mcg404	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81507

Searle, <especially those Gods who have been "watered down and pacified" over the years as society has developed on more "humanitarian" lines.> So only when we get to the point of being completely godless can we be completely humanitarian? Without the ability to demonize those we see as our enemies as evil, we could not exercise our godliness and justify taking their lives. We would have to recognize them as imperfect humans, like ourselves - and apply the golden rule instead... john