Is Anything Good aboutEvil?
Most people know that one of the perpetual questions in theology concerns the nature of evil. If God is omnipotent and good, why does evil exist?
It's a question whose multitude of proposed answers have yet to settle the question.
Leibniz and one other philosopher turned the question around to ask if there is no God, why does good exist?
What is gained by a perpetual struggle between good and evil within both the civilization and the individual?
Why do some people with every incentive to do evil decline? Why do some human beings devote their lives to helping mankind?
Buckminster Fuller did this and he explained exactly why in his book Guinea Pig B.
It was an experiment, in Fullers case. He wanted to see it was possible for one man, needing to support a wife and children, with no academic credentials and no money or social contacts could 1) feed his family 2) contribute measurably to the benefit of all mankind.
Fuller concluded it was impossible. He decided to take his own life.
Then he was hit by a vision.
Fuller was promised by a mysterious inner voice that if he worked without thought of financial profit but purely for what he believed to be the good of all mankind that he would never lack for resources, money and support for his work.
This proved to be the case.
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