Good and Bad
"You may have idealized humanity but you have deformed it as well...." I grabbed this quote off my friend's facebook message because it caught my eye when I was browsing through facebook. Initially, I wanted to talk about humanity in general, but then I decided to talk about Good and Bad instead.
Whoever was being mentioned by my friend, was on one hand a model of perfection. Yet on the other hand, (assumed its a she) she dropped down to the very extreme end of imperfection, ugliness and deformity. Is this possible? How can someone be so good and so really bad? Let's draw upon a very simple example; Boy-Girl Relationships. Ah, the ever sweet romance of two people who are so in love with each other. They enjoy each other's company so much, parting in itself is a tragedy. And oh the presents, always intrinsically wrapped and given so much thought. Now skeptics of love will start laughing at this idealized model of BGR, and yes, they are very skeptically right. For I left out the quarrels that threatened to destroy the relationship. I forgot to mention the countless cases of adultery. I also very conveniently omitted dozen other really terrible things about love. It can get really ugly.... and in a way, from this everyday example, we do see a case of opposite extremes; some people like to call it a Love-Hate relationship.
Love and hate. Wait, aren't they really different? One is an embodiment of good; the other is the extreme opposite, bad. Philosophically, they are not that different. I'll try my best to illustrate what I felt was a really interesting point that my friend made and hopefully it works. If God is the greatest of all good, all the good in the world must have came from God. However, thinking about it on another extreme, where did evil come from? Everything must have came from somewhere and if God is the source of good, I am assuming God is also a source of everything else and by that, it includes evil. And since evil came from God and God is the greatest of all good, so maybe.... they are not so different after all?
And, we look back at love-hate relationships. While we hate the other party, we do actually love them at the same time. And maybe, just maybe, they are not that different after all.
SrslyJude
6:03 AM
