I love my wikipedia. I learn a lot I didn’t know and I refine my thinking by finding fault too. (The problem is knowing what is worth learning and what needs unlearning!)
Consider the wikipedia definition of evil:
Evil is generally defined as any activity which takes advantage of another person for one’s own benefit….(In contrast, good is helping others, even sometimes self-sacrificially; see saint, sainthood.)
There’s something dodgy about the form of this definition and also something very familiar about its implications. For one thing, it fits with the the lable ‘anti-social’ which refers to behaviour which has ill effects, but good intentions – “well, in his culture that behaviour is normal”. Whatever happened to ill intent, though? (For another thing, what’s the counterpart to sainthood?)
According to this view all employers are evil because they necessarily pay their employees less than they earn (‘necessarily’ because otherwise there would be no profit).
The definition attempts to define evil by contrasting it with good. So far so, um, good. But then it weighs them up wrongly, and we are left with a picture of evil that is indistinguishable from graspingness and greed. According to this view evil might have ill effects on the other, but that is not the intention; its primary intention is to gain advantage.
This is a fine example of how thinking about evil can go askew. (And, I suspect, thinking about good too.)
By re-balancing the wording of the above definition another meaning of evil becomes clear.
If good is helping another (possibly involving self-sacrifice) then it follows that evil is harming another (possibly involving self-benefit).
This is all the difference in the world. Now we can see the true intention of evil – it is to do harm. Evil is only secondarily about want, appetite, greed, jealousy; it’s true nature is malevolence, envy, cruelty, viciousness. Indeed, for evil the getting of things is happily foregone if what is primary can be achieved: power over another.
What say you?
yeh your right , i also asked him if he loved this girl after six months of being with her. he said i dont know. i thought how can you stay with someone for six months and not know if you love them i felt for this girl when he said that. when he was with me he said he loved me in a short period of meeting me and us being to gether which is not right anyway too soon. but when i thought about his coment of no love for the new girl i thought he is just staying with her cause it s comfor table and makes his life better, he is using her. a s path doesnt change its spots right. but it made me laugh when he said they dont have much sex that must be driving him mad cause we all know they love sex……. also when he left i thought he doesnt want to give any contact up with me or any girls even though he has a new relationship. so typical. once wehn i didnt call or contact him for 3 months i hadnt heard from him then out of the blue he shows up at my place of work like here i am again you cant forgett me, then nothing no contact till he says he accidently called my number that day a few weeks later.also that day i asked him if he didnt want to have sex why did he start touching me he said i miss touching you!………. i also took the oportujity to talk about our reltionship and break up that day, he basicly blamed me and said i wasnt right for him not perfect for him mostly my age he said i was too old for him. i know for a fact he wouldnt of told his new girl friend he visited me that day she was away for the weekend. so he still lies to his partners. he also told me he visited another girl he used to like who has now three children and is on her own, when i said why, he said oh it was her birthday. i bet he didnt tell his girlf riend about that visit either. the poor girl, he wont leave her till something better comes along i am sure of this. he is now working in a gym where theres lots of nice looking woman so i can just imagine how he behaves there. thanks oxy.
Thoughts ? I have had the unusual ( I think ) blessing of detection first ! I told my PSY/SOC to hunt else where ! Ha ! But wait I must be fourthcomming I had to play the game again only this time I knew how to please ! From a distance via cell ! and I still have 9 count them 9 voice messages in two days ! * That I don’t even need to hear* !
My Fear is those who don’t know that their outing this Parasitic alien ! Could be dangerious to their Life !*
Peace Jere
*James*
Peace and GoodDay !
I am Reading your Rebirth !
I too am Feeling It a almost undescribable revelation A Conection A understanding More like comming UP for air If you know about Free Diving ! Which I know you Feel it! I am obssed with It!
Knowing ones Creator and communicating with Him/Her and Finaly after what seemed like for ever grasping His Wisdom instead of our own! LOVE
Love and Peace
The inner Peace that the PSY/SOC will never know !
Fear is a natural survival instinc ! The P/S has nothing to lose hence no fear !
The Tiger in the cage looks like a great big kitten!
Oh No my son ! It is a Tiger and It is in a cage and you WILL get Bitten ! Just off the hip! :)~
Love Jere
Evil Among Us
Cold-Hearted Tricksters Among Us, James K. Olson @....... http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?q=tricksters
I’ve been reporting on a bigamist, one James “Jim” K. Olson. Cheaters Among Us, James K. Olson @....... http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3334 and http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cheaters-among-us-james-k and Also Gun Controllers Among Us, Marin County California Courts @....... http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3749, and http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/californicating-nevada-how where the victim of bigamy files for divorce in Reno, Nevada since that’s where they lived and owned several Nevada houses with Nevada owners or landlord’s Farmers Insurance on them in the title of a Nevada Living Trust but the Reno judge dismissed her divorce action she filed when she found out about her husband’s bigamy. The Reno judge, Frances Doherty, said California had to handle the divorce although no property was owned in California.
Secrets Among Us, Marin County, CA’s James K. Olson @....... http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?q=secrets+among+us
In my research, I found that the Reno Mrs. Olson is not compulsive, delusional or obsessive. Rather what I found is puzzling, saddening and infuriating that law and justice are arbitrary, changeable, susceptible to the lies and deceit of lawyers and the whims of the judges, defined by mere commercial expediency. Surely the world is ran by higher priorities than deceit and whims and California’s commerce?
Surely it not. Why should anybody be allowed to retain obsolete fashion? Truth and justice must go. They went. California’s commerce and conversance must be served. Lawyers and judges are whores.
The Reno Mrs. Olson protested mightily. But there is a war on, don’t you know? Mr. James “Jim” K. Olson’s War. Mr. Olson’s War to impose silence, destruction, death and annihilation on his Reno Mrs. Olson. Mr. Olson’s conflict is desperate. Evidence for the justification for Mr. Olson’s War is non-existent, but anything can be put over by deceitful smug lawyers when there is a lazy, corrupt, unpatriotic or incompetent judge.
You listening Nevadan Judge Frances Doherty and Carol Cook? Judge Frances Doherty and Carol Cook are the lazy, corrupt, unpatriotic or incompetent Reno Californicated judges that both threw a Nevada citizen to the California whores and under the wheels of the California bus (DV 07-00352 and FV 07-00748). Let’s see if Reno Nevadan Judge Brent Adams or Judge Greg W. Zive are as lazy, corrupt, unpatriotic or incompetent Californicators (CV 08-01067 and BK 08-51146). You listening Nevadan Judge Brent Adams? You listening Nevadan Judge Greg W. Zive? You listening Nevadans Judge Frances Doherty and Carol Cook?
With great amusement do I point out that Mr. James “Jim” K. Olson hides his bigamy, Reno Nevada homeowners and landlord’s insurance, Nevada Trust, Reno Nevada ownership of house, etc. under his hairshirt. Mr. James “Jim” K. Olson emphasizes his lie he’s an innocent victim rather than the truth. Jim Olson and his Marin County, California lawyer buddies, Steven T. Schoonover and Michael B. Samuels victimized the Reno Mrs. Olson, forging her into a twisted bogeyman. Mr. James “Jim” K. Olson’s California lawyer buddies, Steven T. Schoonover and Michael B. Samuels, kept whipping the disobedient Reno Mrs. Olson into judicial line when she failed to follow their orders to just shut up and go quietly away.
Steve, the observations about the Wikipedia definition of “evil” is not only intriguing, but defines our current culture’s train of thought. Good or bad. Yea or nay.
From the Oxford English Dictionary:
evil
• adjective 1. deeply immoral and malevolent. 2 embodying or associated with the devil. 3 extremely unpleasant: an evil smell.
• noun 1. extreme wickedness and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force. 2 something harmful or undesirable.
PHRASES the evil eye a gaze superstitiously believed to cause material harm. the Evil One archaic the Devil. speak evil of slander.
DERIVATIVES evilly adverb evilness noun.
ORIGIN Old English.
Evil is, I think, like pornography, it is hard to describe, but you know it when you see it.
The definition of evil is my ex boyfriend’s name-oh I guess I’m probably not allowed to write it on here. I see pure evil everyday at work and you do know it when you see it. Evil=doctor. The amount of narcissism in all areas of the medical profession is insane.
I heard one of the CT surgeons talking to another doctor about his divorce proceedings. My first thought was wtf? Who would marry that thing to begin with? I know from experience that anyone who would date a doc has a little bit of crazy going on. I had a short break from reality when I dated mine for a year. Naivete is a bitch-isn’t it? I can now say that anyone who would marry one needs a psych consult. The ex boyfriend’s wife has a whole lotta crazy goin on! I am just so freakin glad that I don’t have him in my life anymore. I will leave him to the other women who fall victim to him, the next time he cheats on his wife. I’m not near as angry with myself as I used to be. I can joke about it now sometimes~
Erin1972~ ATTA GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you buttons! I have still triggers though. I don’t think about him much as I used to but today I saw one of his little proteges. Everytime I see her, it triggers me to think about everything. I think he told her a lot of things to trash me and I think she told my coworkers here at my job. I was doing great today until I saw her.
Erin1972, I still have triggers, and it’s been since 1996 that I demanded a divorce and the ex spath’s dead and buried!
About the protege, pity her – allow yourself to feel PITY for her path. He didn’t discard you for any other reason than he could and did. The protege will experience exactly what you did, if not worse. The spaths always seem to “learn” better ways of baiting, luring, and reeling in new victims – it becomes a game or a sport for them.
The next time you see the protege, reach down deep and imagine where she’ll be in the next 6 months and smile gently on her with genuine pity.
Brightest blessings!