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Posted 2010-09-11, 06:10 AM in reply to Hayduke's post starting "Justification for killing a puppy? What..."
Moron's leave their child with their pets unsurpervised all the time. "My dog would never hurt a fly". Until that one day you come home to a bloody fucking mess.

Hayduke, Skurai said:
I don't think animals can have sin, since they didn't eat the fruit of knowledge, and are all pre-programed with instincts. Just to clarify with my belief...


Animals do not "sin". They are following the evolutionary path that got us as far as we have come, but have been straying from for so long.

Idk about you, but I don't remember eating any forbidden fruit. I've just been following the evolutionary path that has come before me.
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Posted 2010-09-12, 04:03 PM in reply to Kazilla's post starting "Moron's leave their child with their..."
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Idk about you, but I don't remember eating any forbidden fruit. I've just been following the evolutionary path that has come before me.
Idk about you, but I don't ever remember being a monkey and suddenly evolving.
(Nice try, but same concept)
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Posted 2010-09-12, 05:33 PM in reply to Skurai's post starting "Idk about you, but I don't ever..."
You kinda proved my point there sparky.
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Posted 2010-09-12, 06:36 PM in reply to Kazilla's post starting "You kinda proved my point there sparky."
Not sure how. As far as I know
Evolution: evolving into humans happened a long time ago.
Fruit of eden: eating the fruit happened a long time ago.

No matter which is right, neither of us was there, but we still have the sid-- ohhhhhhh~
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Posted 2010-09-13, 06:18 PM in reply to Kazilla's post starting "Moron's leave their child with their..."
Kazilla said: [Goto]
Moron's leave their child with their pets unsurpervised all the time. "My dog would never hurt a fly". Until that one day you come home to a bloody fucking mess.
Hence the reason they should left to their own devices. Let them and their children die. That much less bad gene's floating around our world.


Kazilla said:
Idk about you, but I don't remember eating any forbidden fruit.
The tree of knowledge is a metaphor. The forbidden fruit was meant for the "gods" so that they may have the knowledge to decided what animals live and die on a day to day basis. When "Adam"(Man) ate from the tree he got the wrong idea and figured since he possessed the knowledge that the gods have he can and shall decided what is right/wrong good/evil life/death.

Animals follow the laws of nature. They do no deviate, therefore they cannot be good and evil. It's kind of like the laws of gravity and aeronautics. They are just that, laws.

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I've just been following the evolutionary path that has come before me.
Does that make what you are doing right? Your culture and everyone around you is killing the very LAND BASE you live on. So just keep on following.
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Posted 2010-09-13, 06:27 PM in reply to Hayduke's post starting "Hence the reason they should left to..."
Right and wrong are ideas created and defined by humans. Nature has no sense of right and wrong.
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Posted 2010-09-13, 06:54 PM in reply to !King_Amazon!'s post starting "Right and wrong are ideas created and..."
"Whatever I can justify doing is good, and whatever I cannot justify doing is evil."
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Posted 2010-09-13, 08:10 PM in reply to !King_Amazon!'s post starting "Right and wrong are ideas created and..."
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Right and wrong are ideas created and defined by humans. Nature has no sense of right and wrong.
I have to disagree. Let's take a look at (Phoenix W)right and wrong. Using the above post by Hayduke as an easier was to define the words we mean. Right being "Good" and Wrong being "Evil". (I will not be going by any religious ideals, unless I come by them and they become a need. Considering the concept of "Good" and "Evil" must come from a far more original source, religion has nothing to do with this, in nature.)

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/good said:
1. morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
2. satisfactory in quality, quantity, or degree: a good teacher; good health.
Let's go with these first two.
and...
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/evil said:
1. morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked: evil deeds; an evil life.
2. harmful; injurious: evil laws.
3. characterized or accompanied by misfortune or suffering; unfortunate; disastrous: to be fallen on evil days.
Looking through definitions, we could see that virtuous is the same thing as righteousness, which obviously takes it root in the word "right" - thus "good" and "right" can be taken as the same word, making any arguement with "good" parts of the post invalid. Righteous mentions "morality" in its definition, so lets look at "morality".
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/morality said:
conformity to the rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct.
"comformity"? Let's see this word, real fast...
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/conformity said:
1. action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
2. correspondence in form, nature, or character; agreement, congruity, or accordance.
3. compliance or acquiescence; obedience.
*social standards
*Nature
*compliances? acquiescence? I'm going to check these definitions, though I won't post them for tl;dr purposes. (...) They seem to be submissive obedience. Interesting. Let's see the next word in "good"... pious.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pious said:
1. having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for god or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
2. characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion; sanctimonious.
So, "good" appears to be "willingly serving god(s)". But how would the concept of "good" and "evil" gods appear, if it was not here since the beginning? Such defines would be impossible. More likely, if we made them up, they would be "success" and "failure" not "good" and "evil". But I digress. I don't want religion involved in this any more than the definitions. Good also seems to mention "success" in short. So, I guess it's possible "virtue" and "success" are one and the same?

Evil time.
Morally wrong/immoral. Easy enough, that's simply "opposite of virtue" to put it short. But also, wicked. Malicious and Malevolent seem to be fancy words use to define wicked. Malevolent seems to be defined with "harmful" and malicious seems the same, but "spiteful" comes up. Malicious, malevolent, and malice come up. Malice is
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/malice said:
1. desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
which seems to be an "emotional" but also a bit of "overly defensive" idea. By "overly defensive", there must be emotion involved, so "malice" is clearly some form of emotion. A cruel and hateful one...
"Harmful", "Injurous", and "Evil Laws" come up, next. "Evil laws" implying that they must be obeyed, even if they hard people. Thus, laws the people dislike, or are harmful can be called evil by definition. "Characterized by misfortune or suffering" - in otherwords, "failure". I totally fucking called that. (scroll up, if you don't believe me)

So, right and wrong translated into "Good and Evil", retranslates into "Success and Failure", which are parts of progress. We fail, and our failures help us progress... our past evils help our new goods... our wrongs allow us to make rights. Now, let's take a look at "progress"...
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/progress said:
1. a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
...Evolution...
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/evolution said:
1. any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane.
Both progress (which might as well be a giant Yin-Yang symbol) and evolution are basically saying "getting better".
Animals moving in packs, eating other animals, surviving and evolving. They both harm other animals intentively, along with each other for the sake of being "top dog", which can easily be defined as malevolent or malicious. But they also protect each other (usually) and retreat, when they know others will die, if they do not - and undoubtly get food. This is slight virtue(protection and retreating for such protection) and satisfaction(successfully getting a meal). They also usually follow the pact leader - one could say they even conform and if one doesn't like the way a leader rolls, they either dislike the laws or dislike the leader themself or think they could do better. Dislike for the laws shows that there is something "unwanted" by at least one of them. Or... "Evil Laws". Getting rid of "Evil Laws" would be disposing over "evil" and, the only way to get rid of darkness in a room, is to turn on lights. To put it simply, destroying the wolf who runs things with "Evil Laws" is a "Good" thing to do. At the same time, simply killing him because you dislike him would easily be considered "Malice", and thinking you could do better is "Pride", which is commonly know as one of the "Seven sins". "Evil" things.

This kind of thing happens all the time in wolf packs, and likely have been happening since as long as they exist - and yet - here they are. So, "evolution" has made its way.


tl;dr version
Evolution and nature do not conflict with "Good and Evil" in any way, shape, or form by definition. Pop culture (and people who are trying to make it appear as if they conflict) has only made it seem that way. The girl was being malicious to the puppy, clearly wishing to do harm, and made no progress. Thus, the act was "wrong" by all standards.
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Posted 2010-09-14, 09:21 PM in reply to Skurai's post starting "I have to disagree. Let's take a look..."
!King_Amazon! said:
Right and wrong are ideas created and defined by humans. Nature has no sense of right and wrong.
Skurai said: [Goto]
I have to disagree.
Your in agreement. You just have to understand Skurai that without humans there would be no right or wrong. None of the animals do anything that could be construed as right or wrong. They just exist.

Unless... If you look at from a universal standpoint. Perhaps the evolutionary path is the "good" "right thing". Evolving seems to be good because it's always for the better. Living in a state of being in which you can constantly better yourself, while having non detrimental impact on your land base. Win win.

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Posted 2010-09-14, 10:27 PM in reply to Hayduke's post starting "Your in agreement. You just have to..."
Considering out planet is about to die, I'd say we've had plenty impact, and have only our progress to blame.
Edit: From what I've been able to put together, evoltion is result of Success and Failure's enternal cycle. The giant Yin-Yang spinning the silk we call existence, constantly changing colors. Infact, I agree we may be the only to understand Good and Evil (oddly, this matches Biblical reasoning, and I didn't even intend that much), and honestly, if that happened - it would make perfect sense as to how we've progressed more than other creatures. The moment we started to comprehend is the moment we start spinning silk faster than all others.
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Posted 2010-09-15, 10:25 AM in reply to Skurai's post starting "Considering out planet is about to die,..."
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Considering out planet is about to die, I'd say we've had plenty impact, and have only our progress to blame.
Unfortunately yes. My previous post was simply stating that WOULD be the "correct" way to live. Not that we HAVE.
I'm sure you have heard of Cain and Able correct Skurai?
The Fertile Crescent - "The region is often considered the cradle of civilization, saw the development of many of the earliest human civilizations, and is the birthplace of writing and the wheel."
This is where it all went wrong. The people in the fertile crescent are the ones that metaphorically ate from the "tree of knowledge". Assuming the way that they live life is best for humanity (because humans are the end all be all of the universe right?). They systematically spread agricultural throughout the world. The Semites and their way of life being destroyed to make room for more cultivation.
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Posted 2010-09-15, 08:39 PM in reply to Skurai's post starting "I have to disagree. Let's take a look..."
Skurai said: [Goto]
I have to disagree. Let's take a look at (Phoenix W)right and wrong. Using the above post by Hayduke as an easier was to define the words we mean. Right being "Good" and Wrong being "Evil". (I will not be going by any religious ideals, unless I come by them and they become a need. Considering the concept of "Good" and "Evil" must come from a far more original source, religion has nothing to do with this, in nature.)

Let's go with these first two.
and...


Looking through definitions, we could see that virtuous is the same thing as righteousness, which obviously takes it root in the word "right" - thus "good" and "right" can be taken as the same word, making any arguement with "good" parts of the post invalid. Righteous mentions "morality" in its definition, so lets look at "morality".

"comformity"? Let's see this word, real fast...

*social standards
*Nature
*compliances? acquiescence? I'm going to check these definitions, though I won't post them for tl;dr purposes. (...) They seem to be submissive obedience. Interesting. Let's see the next word in "good"... pious.

So, "good" appears to be "willingly serving god(s)". But how would the concept of "good" and "evil" gods appear, if it was not here since the beginning? Such defines would be impossible. More likely, if we made them up, they would be "success" and "failure" not "good" and "evil". But I digress. I don't want religion involved in this any more than the definitions. Good also seems to mention "success" in short. So, I guess it's possible "virtue" and "success" are one and the same?

Evil time.
Morally wrong/immoral. Easy enough, that's simply "opposite of virtue" to put it short. But also, wicked. Malicious and Malevolent seem to be fancy words use to define wicked. Malevolent seems to be defined with "harmful" and malicious seems the same, but "spiteful" comes up. Malicious, malevolent, and malice come up. Malice is
which seems to be an "emotional" but also a bit of "overly defensive" idea. By "overly defensive", there must be emotion involved, so "malice" is clearly some form of emotion. A cruel and hateful one...
"Harmful", "Injurous", and "Evil Laws" come up, next. "Evil laws" implying that they must be obeyed, even if they hard people. Thus, laws the people dislike, or are harmful can be called evil by definition. "Characterized by misfortune or suffering" - in otherwords, "failure". I totally fucking called that. (scroll up, if you don't believe me)

So, right and wrong translated into "Good and Evil", retranslates into "Success and Failure", which are parts of progress. We fail, and our failures help us progress... our past evils help our new goods... our wrongs allow us to make rights. Now, let's take a look at "progress"...


...Evolution...


Both progress (which might as well be a giant Yin-Yang symbol) and evolution are basically saying "getting better".
Animals moving in packs, eating other animals, surviving and evolving. They both harm other animals intentively, along with each other for the sake of being "top dog", which can easily be defined as malevolent or malicious. But they also protect each other (usually) and retreat, when they know others will die, if they do not - and undoubtly get food. This is slight virtue(protection and retreating for such protection) and satisfaction(successfully getting a meal). They also usually follow the pact leader - one could say they even conform and if one doesn't like the way a leader rolls, they either dislike the laws or dislike the leader themself or think they could do better. Dislike for the laws shows that there is something "unwanted" by at least one of them. Or... "Evil Laws". Getting rid of "Evil Laws" would be disposing over "evil" and, the only way to get rid of darkness in a room, is to turn on lights. To put it simply, destroying the wolf who runs things with "Evil Laws" is a "Good" thing to do. At the same time, simply killing him because you dislike him would easily be considered "Malice", and thinking you could do better is "Pride", which is commonly know as one of the "Seven sins". "Evil" things.

This kind of thing happens all the time in wolf packs, and likely have been happening since as long as they exist - and yet - here they are. So, "evolution" has made its way.


tl;dr version
Evolution and nature do not conflict with "Good and Evil" in any way, shape, or form by definition. Pop culture (and people who are trying to make it appear as if they conflict) has only made it seem that way. The girl was being malicious to the puppy, clearly wishing to do harm, and made no progress. Thus, the act was "wrong" by all standards.
I can call bullshit on all of this with one simple sentence.

The human mind=variable.

and variables=unknown

Therefor, it does not matter that by definition, personal opinion, point of view, etc, etc, etc.

Is "wrong"

right and wrong are, and will always be ideas set in by the human mind to define what they enjoy and do not enjoy.

So long story short?

No skurai, that's bullshi
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Posted 2010-09-15, 08:58 PM in reply to kyeruu's post starting "I can call bullshit on all of this with..."
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I can call bullshit on all of this with one simple sentence.

The human mind=variable.

and variables=unknown

Therefor, it does not matter that by definition, personal opinion, point of view, etc, etc, etc.

Is "wrong"

right and wrong are, and will always be ideas set in by the human mind to define what they enjoy and do not enjoy.

So long story short?

No skurai, that's bullshi
Implying you know how to read.
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Posted 2010-09-17, 05:56 PM in reply to Skurai's post starting "Implying you know how to read."
I love when people random quote someone's text 5 different times in one message. It's like they think by breaking down their paragraph sentence by sentence, they are superior...

that is all
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