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.