Good and Evil by Abdel Khader Khan

The universe began fifteen billion years ago, in almost absolute simplicity, and its been getting more and more complex ever since. This movement from the simple to complex is built into the web and weave of the universe, and its called the tendency toward complexcity. We're the products of this complexification, and so are the birds, and the bees, and the trees, and the stars and even the galaxies of stars. Aif we were to get wiped out in a cosmic explosion, like an asteroid impact or something, som other expression of our level of complexity would emerge, because taht what the universe does. And this is likely to be going on all over the universe.

The final or ultimate complexity - the place where all this complexity is going - is what, or who? Anything that promotes, enhances, or accelerates this movement towards final complexity is good. Anything that inhibits, impedes, or prevents is evil.

If we want to know if something is good or evil then we ask these questions;

What if ewveryone did this thing?
Would that help us, in the bit of the universe, to get there, or would it hold us back?

And then we have a pretty good idea whether its good or evil. Whats more important, we know why its good or evil.

Karla says...

I dont know what frightens me more,
the power that crushes us
or our endless ability to endure it.

Something to chew on....

Sometimes we see the past so clearly, and read the legend of its parts with such acuity, that every stich of time reveals its purpose, and a kind of message is enfolded in it. Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow. And in this tiny precious wisdom that they give give to us, even those dread and hated enemies, suffering and failure, have their reasons and their right to be.


~ Shantaram