Conundrum

what does evil mean when not just evil people do the evil deed

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Jennifer Proxenos

Date: 12/4/2018 12:26:00 PM

Evil is often born, it is nurtured in a troubled mind until the person reaches the age of reason, which can be very early in life, (for example a young boy killing a domestic cat) or, perhaps it suddenly emerges due to an overpowering emotion, either way evil is evil ! xoxo, Jennifer

Sand Blown
Date: 12/4/2018 1:11:00 PM

'evils' is 'borne' by some as manifestation of their life...people living in fear are often bullies or killers in high places saying prayers out loud...we're all subject to influences that cause change seen as +/- by others...

Freddie Robinson Jr.

Date: 12/1/2018 10:37:00 AM

That's a existential thought bender, SB. You do dig deep into the cosmic grey matter don't you. A free-thinker's delight this quintessential poem be. Love and peace always.

Sand Blown
Date: 12/1/2018 10:58:00 AM

stilling the waters invites depth lol

Gerald Dillenbeck

Date: 12/1/2018 9:44:00 AM

I'm sure you ask rhetorically, and I would not presume to substitute my non-silence for your own, and yet to me this problem of evil speaks to the viral potential of both competition and cooperation. One toward violent histories and the other toward peacetime at-home health restorations.

Sand Blown
Date: 12/1/2018 10:06:00 AM

hey man...'good and evil' exemplify the inner psycho -logical landscape mapping of people, relative to the 'world' they cognize in their own peculiar physical and mental ways...the communal factor ----> popular beliefs

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 12/1/2018 9:40:00 AM

It means they were forced to do it, like at gunpoint!! This one just made me think of a movie I saw where a person had to choose between killing a stranger or having one of their family members be killed. Strange things can happen in this world. a poem to make us think

Sand Blown
Date: 12/1/2018 9:56:00 AM

force of one sort or other is always a convenient excuse ...especially for those (ie. leaders) who feel "obliged"

Janice Canerdy

Date: 12/1/2018 8:28:00 AM

Good question, since basically good people sometimes do terrible things.

Sand Blown
Date: 12/1/2018 9:16:00 AM

"and the leaders in high places say their prayers out loud" (leonard cohen song)

Jan Allison

Date: 11/30/2018 1:32:00 AM

if you ever find out let me know !:-) the same conundrum is a life prison sentence and they are let out after 15 years:-( hugs Jan xx

Sand Blown
Date: 11/30/2018 10:36:00 PM

good and evil are essentially peoples (individuals or people en masse) points of perspective dependent on how they cognize 'whatever'...en masse it is a psychological probability map.....fun eh!