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DOES EVIL EXIST?



A university professor challenged his students with this question.
Did God create everything that exists? A student bravely replied, "Yes, He did!"
"God created everything?" the professor asked. "Yes, sir," the student replied.
The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists. And according to the principal that our works define who we are, then God is evil." The student became quiet before such an answer.
The professor was quite pleased with himself, and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the faith in God is a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question, professor?" "Of course," replied the professor. The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"
What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The students snickered at the young man's question.
The young man replied, "In fact, sir, cold does not exist.
According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is, in reality, the absence of heat. Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy. Absolute zero (-460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."
The student continued. "Professor, does darkness exist? The professor responded, "Of course it does."
The student replied, "Once again you are wrong, sir. Darkness does not exist either. Darkness is, in reality, the absence of light. We can study light, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wave lengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."
Finally, the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?" Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course, as I have already said, "We see it everyday. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."
To this the student replied,"Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God, It is just like darkness and cold - a work that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not created evil. Evil is not like faith, or love, that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or the darkness that comes when there is no light."
The professor sat down. The young student's name was -- Albert Einstein

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Why does this remind of of "The Dialogues concerning Natural Religion" by David Hume.

All these A Priori vs A posteriori arguments and stuff.

I have a final in this stuff tonight. My boring-arse philosphy professor would love you for posting this.

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"If u put a small price on ur value.. rest assure that the world wont raise ur price! Love U 2day!" ~ Rev. Run

"If you keep believing in yourself and seek enthusiasm inside your soul, things will get simpler, more spontaneous." ~Paulo Coelho

"Knowledge is like the wind, once you obtain it, you can go anywhere." ~Yellow Hare(Native-American Chief)

Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit
the floor each morning the devil says:
"Oh Crap, She's up!"

same silly inspiration story

JUST reworded

Somebody just realized that there are books in the library I see...

oh yeah i got my finals next week for this stuff. so ppl keep posting

Quick quiz for yuh!

What's A Priori and A Posteriori?

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"If u put a small price on ur value.. rest assure that the world wont raise ur price! Love U 2day!" ~ Rev. Run

"If you keep believing in yourself and seek enthusiasm inside your soul, things will get simpler, more spontaneous." ~Paulo Coelho

"Knowledge is like the wind, once you obtain it, you can go anywhere." ~Yellow Hare(Native-American Chief)

Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit
the floor each morning the devil says:
"Oh Crap, She's up!"

An A Priori is something that's independent of an experience like logic and yield necessary truth and an a posteriori is something that is dependent on experience, Like Physics, and has contingent truts.

CORRECT

somebody give this lady an "A".

Now what is the Allegory of the Cave according to Plato?

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"If u put a small price on ur value.. rest assure that the world wont raise ur price! Love U 2day!" ~ Rev. Run

"If you keep believing in yourself and seek enthusiasm inside your soul, things will get simpler, more spontaneous." ~Paulo Coelho

"Knowledge is like the wind, once you obtain it, you can go anywhere." ~Yellow Hare(Native-American Chief)

Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit
the floor each morning the devil says:
"Oh Crap, She's up!"

tell dat 2 my professor. And allegory of cave. Ummm.... I missed da class when we was talkin bout Plato. But thanxs now I know what I have 2 study.

is this correct?

yes it is sweety. i loooove philosophy cuz the class is interesting and makes me really think (well except now cuz it boring and we're just talking about Nietzsche and Descartes argument on knowledge)

You lucked out. I had a professor who lectured on Aquinas' Essence of Law, Descartes' Meditations on Religion, Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, and Kant. and this prof is so fixated with the Argument of Design.

and the worst part is he makes it so that there is no room for students' individual thought and discussion on any of this.

__________________
"If u put a small price on ur value.. rest assure that the world wont raise ur price! Love U 2day!" ~ Rev. Run

"If you keep believing in yourself and seek enthusiasm inside your soul, things will get simpler, more spontaneous." ~Paulo Coelho

"Knowledge is like the wind, once you obtain it, you can go anywhere." ~Yellow Hare(Native-American Chief)

Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit
the floor each morning the devil says:
"Oh Crap, She's up!"

[QUOTE=soca_souljah]DOES EVIL EXIST?



Yes it does, and the devil it very busy....

and to answer your question.
yes evil(subjective term BTW) exists.









HUMANS create and propagate evil.

Without even reading your post, I'll answer yes.

From the belief in a God system, evil manifest's itself as sin.

From simply the spiritual belief and/or metaphysical belief system, evil manifests itself as negative energy.

So that should cover about everyone...I think.