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Curious
I watch curiously as I notice the beliefs lining up on opposite sides, each on the defensive, and each curiously becoming more and more alike. As if we must exaggerate the differences in order to be able to define a position of stance. Each belief has donned a white hat, and swears up and down that the opposing beliefs are wearing a black one, but it is a matter of perception, for no black hats exist, nor do white ones. They are all various shades of gray, as though they all were washed together in the same tub of dirty water.
And what exactly is this prophesized apocalyptic battle between good and evil if evil has lost its identifying mark of recognition? I mean evil is bad, and should feel bad, if evil has a conscience, which I don’t think evil does. I think that good has more than enough conscience to share with evil, because good can manage to feel very bad about pleasurable things. Good is always trying to foster its conscience onto evil because evil doesn’t feel all that bad about pleasurable things. It makes good feel better if evil is feeling bad, although evil thinks its rather stupid to feel bad the way that good does. Good’s best form of punishment is to make evil develop enough conscience to feel as bad as good does, otherwise good might have to outright just kill evil by hanging, injection or the electric chair. Whereas, evil will not be feeling too much of anything, but good will feel very justified. Of course, good may have just killed evil for killing, which sort of makes them both very much the same.
Perhaps we could define good and evil by the amount of conscience they display. If there is a high level of conscience then it must be good, because it is obviously feeling very bad. And if there is a low level of conscience then it must be evil, because it is obviously feeling very good. Therefore, the division is not between good and evil, but between feeling good or feeling bad. If all the feeling goods lined up and shot all the feeling bads, this could mean that evil rules, which is never how the story ends in the movies. Good always wins. That means that the winner is actually the loser because it’s a bunch of feeling bads.
Perhaps the feeling bads wouldn’t feel so bad if they didn’t outright kill evil, they just maybe shot them in the knee, if they would promise to limp over and feel remorse. That way, both good and evil could feel mediocre bad for the rest of all eternity. Roll credits.
