Anonymous ID: 29c520 Sept. 22, 2021, 8:18 a.m. No.14636584   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6589 >>6604

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.

 

https://archive.org/details/GuineaPigBFuller20100209132832Copy

Anonymous ID: 29c520 Sept. 22, 2021, 8:32 a.m. No.14636665   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>14636604

Theodore Dreiser wrote a story about another such a man.

 

A Doer of the Word

 

I was in a most examining and critical mood that summer, looking into the nature and significance of many things, and was sitting one day in the shed of the maker of sailboats, where a half-dozen characters of the village were gathered, when some turn in the conversation brought up the nature of man. He is queer, he is restless; life is not so very much when you come to look upon many phases of it.

 

“Did any of you ever know a contented man?” I inquired idly, merely for the sake of something to say.

 

There was silence for a moment, and one after another met my roving glance with a thoughtful, self-involved and retrospective eye.

 

Old Mr. Main was the first to answer.

 

“Yes, I did. One.”

 

“So did I,” put in the sailboat maker, as he stopped in his work to think about it.

 

“Yes, and I did,” said a dark, squat, sunny, little old fisherman, who sold cunners for bait in a little hut next door.

 

“Maybe you and me are thinking of the same one, Jacob,” said old Mr. Main, looking inquisitively at the boat-builder.

 

“I think we’ve all got the same man in mind, likely,” returned the builder.

 

“Who is he?” I asked.

 

“Charlie Potter,” said the builder.

 

“That’s the man!” exclaimed Mr. Main.

 

“Yes, I reckon Charlie Potter is contented, if anybody be,” said an old fisherman who had hitherto been silent.

 

https://dmdujour.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/theodore-dreiser-a-doer-of-the-word/

Anonymous ID: 29c520 Sept. 22, 2021, 8:37 a.m. No.14636715   🗄️.is 🔗kun

 

The only event that might turn mankind's attention from the well deserved ruin of the Babylon system and its associated social hierarchies is a revelation.