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Originally Posted by Cameron Teone  You don’t become consumed with pretending how everyone is just soooo awesome, yayyyy, and you don’t become consumed with people who are a*sholes. |
I could be wrong, but I'm not sure that Angela is trying to suggest that "everyone is just soooo awesome, yay" but more that people are just people, and have equal potential to be good and bad, and that what they do reflects the best of their understanding at a particular time.
Like I said, right now I feel like I am the 'good' person in this situation and 'C' is the 'bad' one, but I equally understand that her actions suggest she sees me as the 'bad' person and her as the 'good' one. This shows that badness and goodness are largely matters of perception.
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I’d like to see people who spout off the advice in the quote above, go back to 1942, and tell that to some poor kid whose grandparents are being shipped to concentration camps in Nazi Germany. “Hey, little kid, see the people about to murder your grandparents? See the good in those people, discover the joy and abundance, the Nazis just, poof, disappear.” |
I'm not terribly schooled in history, (and according to Godwin's Law, this discussion is already over) but it strikes me that the Nazi regimen was enabled to happen by people who really believed they were doing the right thing.
Do you really think that the Holocaust happened because millions of people who were all inherently evil or bad just all happened to be living in Germany? Or do you think that those millions of people acted or tacitly allowed things to happen because to the best of their understanding, those things were right?
The potential for good or bad acts exists in all of us. Although I'm still getting my head around the concepts, I do see that once you start seeing people as beings who operate according to their achieved level of consciousness, and not good people/bad people, then in some respects, the 'bad guys' do just "poof, disappear", because the badness is a matter of your own perception.
As they say, when you know better, you do better.
And as Earl says, I'm just tryin' a be a better person.