Thank you -- Excellent reflection on the mind and its link to good and evil! Note, pretty sure, "Thanatos" might be a Greek God, e.g. of Peaceful Death ... effectively what the Avenger's villain "Thanos" enacted universally (before time was manipulated for a do-over).
This is a very interesting conversation. Here’s another idea: what if it’s not evil that makes people do bad things, but the fact that they are infant souls and are still in survival mode, and do whatever it is they think they need to do to survive?
Well, I think that something like that is exactly right. I am not sure about the metaphysical part because people can change in large ways over the course of a lifetime. But I think many people regress to an infant-like/primal state when they do evil things. That is what allows them to do those things. The evil person allows that to happen in an uncontrolled manner and follows his or her emotions to the dark places where they lead, becoming darker every time they allow it, the good person sets limits. The big question is why the evil person allows the derangement to take place. I think feeling out of control is certainly central to the explanation. The evil person, in order to decide to be good, must either stop feeling out of control or must understand that the feelings will pass. They must not identify with the feelings, which unfortunately many people do. Once we decide that these out of control feelings are us rather than just feelings that will pass, derangement and bad behavior ensues. The Joker identified completely with his feelings and the whole world became them, and he wasn’t completely wrong. Batman rose above his feelings and projected an ideal on the world in their place, trying to make that ideal come into existence as a defense against his feelings; he also placed strict limits on this ideal and did not become a zealot, which was impressively mature. What it is that caused The Joker to choose as he did and Batman to choose as he did is not clear. I imply that it had something to do with free will but other preexisting factors may have also been important. I suppose that that is where the idea of souls comes in. I think I don’t like this idea because the evil that people do deeply disturbs me and I want to believe that people can change and get better. Without that belief, I am left feeling overwhelmed and hopeless—and that’s The Joker path!😛Thank you for your comment.
I am not a paid subscriber KevinI am poor and really cannot afford to join May groups . But I did want to shr wthis website , because understanding the dynamics and the truths that this organization of carrying Americans reveals is essential to turnongkirncountry back to a be beneficial Course of government.
Thank you -- Excellent reflection on the mind and its link to good and evil! Note, pretty sure, "Thanatos" might be a Greek God, e.g. of Peaceful Death ... effectively what the Avenger's villain "Thanos" enacted universally (before time was manipulated for a do-over).
Well done, Kevin.
This is a very interesting conversation. Here’s another idea: what if it’s not evil that makes people do bad things, but the fact that they are infant souls and are still in survival mode, and do whatever it is they think they need to do to survive?
https://lizlasorte.substack.com/p/do-you-want-to-live-in-the-happiest?r=76q58
Well, I think that something like that is exactly right. I am not sure about the metaphysical part because people can change in large ways over the course of a lifetime. But I think many people regress to an infant-like/primal state when they do evil things. That is what allows them to do those things. The evil person allows that to happen in an uncontrolled manner and follows his or her emotions to the dark places where they lead, becoming darker every time they allow it, the good person sets limits. The big question is why the evil person allows the derangement to take place. I think feeling out of control is certainly central to the explanation. The evil person, in order to decide to be good, must either stop feeling out of control or must understand that the feelings will pass. They must not identify with the feelings, which unfortunately many people do. Once we decide that these out of control feelings are us rather than just feelings that will pass, derangement and bad behavior ensues. The Joker identified completely with his feelings and the whole world became them, and he wasn’t completely wrong. Batman rose above his feelings and projected an ideal on the world in their place, trying to make that ideal come into existence as a defense against his feelings; he also placed strict limits on this ideal and did not become a zealot, which was impressively mature. What it is that caused The Joker to choose as he did and Batman to choose as he did is not clear. I imply that it had something to do with free will but other preexisting factors may have also been important. I suppose that that is where the idea of souls comes in. I think I don’t like this idea because the evil that people do deeply disturbs me and I want to believe that people can change and get better. Without that belief, I am left feeling overwhelmed and hopeless—and that’s The Joker path!😛Thank you for your comment.
I am not a paid subscriber KevinI am poor and really cannot afford to join May groups . But I did want to shr wthis website , because understanding the dynamics and the truths that this organization of carrying Americans reveals is essential to turnongkirncountry back to a be beneficial Course of government.
https://thirty-thousand.org/