Erin wrote:
> AllYou! wrote:
>> In
>> news:6775e4c0-b9dc-4c9e-9d4c-0e0555a6112a@p31g2000prf.googlegroups.com,
>> Erin <squig...@sympatico.ca> mused:
>>> Doug Laidlaw wrote:
>>>> Reading Erin's troubles with the presence of evil in the world,
>>>> I thought that the answer given by GROW (the Australian 12-step
>>>> group network, started by a Catholic priest) was worth
>>>> repeating:

>>>> Most of us stopped asking that question long ago.  It stops us
>>>> from getting better.  It shifts the blame to God, and absolves
>>>> us of the responsibility of developing our characters to deal
>>>> with it.

>>>> No answer.  Just don't ask the question.  Taoism as expressed
>>>> in "The Tao of Poh" is full of the same theme:  Don't ask
>>>> unnecessary questions.  Don't waste government money on
>>>> research which increases knowledge with no practical
>>>> application.  Don't worry about "the world" being evil, because
>>>> the world is something you can't change.  Yourself, you can
>>>> change (within limits, but pessimism isn't one of them.)

>>>> Doug L.

>>> Hi Doug,

>>> I am inclined to follow Camus on this.  It does bother me when
>>> people do not follow and create happiness when they can.  But
>>> I know that outside the personal level, as you say, "evil" in the
>>> world does exist so much as a quality as indifference to
>>> individuals. Concepts like good and evil belong to the human
>>> realm, and not to the world itself.

>> The word, itself, includes the human realm.

> You mean people are evil?