The Root of all Evil? What do you think it is?

What do you think is the root of all evil?

I dont know, I'd have to say GOD(religions) or MONEY..

but those 2 who ever created them were genius's.

 

conciousness

 

Upon being born into this world you are thrown into a world of all evil. This world is evil, as well as good. If we were to cut out the good aspects of life, evil would follow but then life would not be able to exist. I E people couldnt eat meat, it would be a race over vegetation, couldn't destroy the earth to build homes. In a tribal world, evil reigns, you must fight animals, you must hunt and kill, you must fight each other for food and women to reproduce. If you consider this evil like most people today, its a necessary part of life. However I beleive the evil you are referring to is like you said Money or God. Yet these are not, the root of all Evil is colonization, and civilization.

Money and God (with a capital G) were both byproducts of civilization. Hiding inside walls, to escape the natural world of chaotic dangerous weather, and preying animals. We then traded this for a virus type mentality of domination. This is the root of all evil. Without civilizations there would be no tyrants, no wars for anything except natural wars like food, sex, and land. Not over religion, or power, or wealth. Violence to one another is also a byproduct of civilization, if we were still out in the wilderness, we would have to band together in about 80% of time, unless we were in a secure place having an internal feud for the above mentioned things.

 

Hare Krishna!

Dear Gravity,

The root cause of all the evil is because of narrowness or selfishness of our mind. The sense of 'I' and 'My' causes all evil thoughts and actions. First we tend to draw a small firm circle with our own family of husband, wife and the children. Then depending on our mental broadness we make that circle bigger and bigger.......outside the immediate family....father and mother... relatives....neighbours......towns......cities.....country......continents.....and then the whole world. As our circle grows bigger and bigger the line of the circle becomes more and more faint and at one point it vanishes. Most of us are bound within the first two circles.

He is the happiest and most beautiful(Mentally) person who belongs to the whole world. The whole world belongs to him/her. Everybody's happiness becomes his/her happiness. Everybody's tears of pain and sorrow brings tears in his/her eyes. The question of being evil does not arise at all for him or her.


It is a divine game of balance of good and evil. Without this game evaluation of good and evil would not have been possible. Think of this world with only white without the VIBGYOR !


Love,

Kumar.

 

ego/selfishness. All badness springs from that.

 

Religion it self and today...........Television.

 

Trippin Btm do you think the ego existed before civilization?

 

Unconsciousness - in the sense that people don't act or think consciously, but as a result of their often faulty programming. The robotic or machine like nature of human beings.

They simply repeat patterns of negative behaviour because that's what they've been mis-educated to do.

 

Good question. I lean towards yes. But in a tribal context, it isn't much of a problem because there are checks and balances of behavior for coordinating self and society. Civilization/city living made the tribal checks inapplicable, due largely to the disparity in wealth and the fact that you were a stranger to most people around you. Doing evil to a stranger is not as hard as doing evil to a friend or family member, especially when your life and well being depend on those friends and family members (as it does in a tribal society but often doesn't in civilization).

 

Beat me to it Trippin.

IMO, the EGO is the root of all evil.

 

money, ignorance, religion

 

jesus....

 

Right Wing Conservative Republicans!!!!!

 

Evil existed before we did. We just had soccer mom types rename it as smoking crack behind the school and raping their daughters.

 

to cover everything in one word, Fear.

fear is why people are ignorant, why people watch so much god damn tv, why they eat so much greasy meat, drive their cars so much, want so much material crap, and don't consider another way of being. it's not a conscious thing, like, "i have to stuff my face and sit on my ass or else someone will hurt me!" but people want to be accepted. they want self worth. they don't think they can give it to themselves. they need someone to tell them they're worthwhile in this vast universe, in which they aren't even half a speck of significance. commercials make them feel smart, or special. having the best of something makes them better than someone else. they need all of their reality to scream "INFINITY IS A LIE. YOU ARE ALL THAT MATTERS!" so they can believe it, so they don't ever have to think about how small they are.

 

I'd guess all that fear stems from the fear of death.

 

You guys ever heard the fear of death is only a subconcious trick? Given to us by alien intervention.

 

the Vatican...

 

Ok you nut job, we understand you hate Christianity.

 

Good and evil are only relative ideas that exist in the minds of humanity, neither actually exists.