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Author Topic: WIse word for the day - Evil are seldom as evil, good are seldom as good  (Read 4769 times)

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Offline Matthew

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One thing I've learned in my life --

Those promoted as "evil", or thriving on hatred the way most people thrive on love, are seldom as evil as they are commonly believed (or maligned by various talk). That goes for the Mainstream Media, but also message boards, etc.

And those promoted as saintly, good, etc. (usually those on Your Team, I might add!) usually have some rough edges that their friends choose to ignore. 

So many people make everything into black and white, as if some people are incarnate devils, and the other side is most of the way towards Canonization.

That's not how it works in this world. You'll find that most human beings are a mix of good and evil, truth and error, choosing God and choosing self.

You'd think more people would be wise enough to know this -- but how many buy into the ridiculous propaganda about Assad, or Putin, for example? Nothing has changed since the 1910's, when Germans were portrayed as subhuman "The Hun", and the 1940's when all the American wartime propaganda said ridiculous things about the Japanese. We would all like to think we're more advanced, more enlightened now -- think again!

If anything, things are becoming more obfuscated, if not darn right darker, both intellectually and spiritually. 

There are somethings that are clear cut good and evil, and various degrees betwixt the two. 



Offline Matthew

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If anything, things are becoming more obfuscated, if not darn right darker, both intellectually and spiritually.

There are somethings that are clear cut good and evil, and various degrees betwixt the two.

Yes, such as various errors in the world (Feminism, Liberalism, Modernism, Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, тαℓмυdic Judaism, Illuminati, abortion) and certain evil proponents of these demonic systems (Hillary Clinton).

But how many people are quick to place various TRAD CLERICS in the same boat as Hillary Clinton? When those clerics in question have actual followers who believe they are good priests! Such is a ludicrous affront to the truth.

People are way too quick to declare someone "evil" rather than
"he is not on my side; oh well" or "he disagrees with me", or "we have a difference of opinion" -- any of those 3 items are MUCH more accurate and closer to the objective truth.

Somehow we've all been trained to have an "US" and "THEM" mentality about EVERYTHING, even Trad groups. It's ridiculous.

Yes, such as various errors in the world (Feminism, Liberalism, Modernism, Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, тαℓмυdic Judaism, Illuminati, abortion) and certain evil proponents of these demonic systems (Hillary Clinton).

But how many people are quick to place various TRAD CLERICS in the same boat as Hillary Clinton? When those clerics in question have actual followers who believe they are good priests! Such is a ludicrous affront to the truth.

People are way too quick to declare someone "evil" rather than
"he is not on my side; oh well" or "he disagrees with me", or "we have a difference of opinion" -- any of those 3 items are MUCH more accurate and closer to the objective truth.

Somehow we've all been trained to have an "US" and "THEM" mentality about EVERYTHING, even Trad groups. It's ridiculous.
The hearts and minds of TradCats are always in need of continual discernment and education, from trusted Catholic sources. The foundation of. Thought and action must be based on charity and humility. Alas these last two are oft found wanting. 
If it were are easy as doing a clean install of an OS on a computer, TradCat minds could so much easily be fixed. ::) :P :D
I havent fleshed out the Mac Linux Windows metaphor as it would relate to the human soul. ;D

This is one of the things that turned me off the Dimonds. Anyone Catholic they disagreed with on anything was suddenly the devil working through man and evil itself incarnate.