Power to remove.

[Rsurfer]

If you had the power to remove one thing on planet earth, what would that be?

I'll start, besides my X, swirls.

[FUNX650]

•Metaphysically speaking:
-Evilness…and all the associated
connotations this word invokes.


Bob

Note @Rsurfer:
“X” may be one such connotation…

[Jim w]

Bob

Well said!

[Rsurfer]

•Metaphysically speaking:
-Evilness…and all the associated
connotations this word invokes.


Bob

Note @Rsurfer:
“X” may be one such connotation…

We are on good terms

[PaulMys]

Fleas, ticks, and mosquitos.

That's technically 3 things, so lets just say "All blood-sucking disease-carrying parasites".

[57Rambler]

Liars.

There's nothing I hate more than a liar.

[vobro]

The “news”

[Coatingsarecrack]

•Metaphysically speaking:
-Evilness…and all the associated
connotations this word invokes.


Bob

Note @Rsurfer:
“X” may be one such connotation…

“From this it follows that there is nothing to be called evil if there is nothing good. A good that wholly lacks an evil aspect is entirely good. Where there is some evil in a thing, its good is defective or defectible. Thus there can be no evil where there is no good.”

And vise versa


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[FUNX650]

“From this it follows that there is nothing
to be called evil if there is nothing good.
A good that wholly lacks an evil aspect is
entirely good. Where there is some evil in
a thing, its good is defective or defectible.

Thus there can be no evil where there is no good.”

And vise versa

^^^ Source? TIA.

•Also:
-At this phase of my life, I find myself
to be in disagreement with the above
philosophical premise. Evil is Evil, IMO.

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‘At the same time, we must take warning lest
we incur the prophetic judgment which reads:
"Woe to those who call evil good and
good evil: who call darkness light and
light darkness; who call the bitter sweet
and the sweet bitter."

‘Moreover the Lord himself saith’:
“An evil man brings forth evil out
of the evil treasure of his heart”.

Source:
“The Enchiridion on Faith,
Hope, and Love/(Charity)”
~Augustine of Hippo; ca. 420 AD


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Bob

[Coatingsarecrack]

^^^ Source? TIA.

•Also:
-At this phase of my life, I find myself
to be in disagreement with the above
philosophical premise. Evil is Evil, IMO.

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‘At the same time, we must take warning lest
we incur the prophetic judgment which reads:
"Woe to those who call evil good and
good evil: who call darkness light and
light darkness; who call the bitter sweet
and the sweet bitter."

‘Moreover the Lord himself saith’:
“An evil man brings forth evil out
of the evil treasure of his heart”.

Source:
“The Enchiridion on Faith,
Hope, and Love/(Charity)”
~Augustine of Hippo; ca. 420 AD


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Bob

If you google the quote you’d be surprise to find out it is in fact the same source.




But in agreement if I had the power, Banish Evil.

Since we don’t




“Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.”





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