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Originally Posted by Anagogy  And what I'm saying is that "advanced" is a sliding relative scale. You say half empty, I say half full. If we compare ourselves relative to a world that is at complete peace, we AREN'T advanced. But relative to a world worse off than us, we WOULD appear advanced.
We are evolving, and perfection would defeat the purpose of growth. What you call "evil" I prefer to call "growth challenges". |
Interesting! I only chose the word "evil" because that is what gets thrown around most. I would probably more say that humans are just getting more unconscious and more driven by ego. But I also see that a lot of people are getting MORE conscious (mostly from visiting this forum every day), I just find it harder to find more conscious people in my real life. I don't know how, because you'd think after spending every day in this forum for the last 3 years that I would start to find some people in real life who reflect this, but unfortunately it hasn't happened.
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Not paying attention to the bad will not make it magically disappear from the world. That is, unless everybody did it, in which case it would.
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I wish everyone knew this. Oh what a perfect world it would be then! *sigh*
So anytime you are paying more attention to the bad, than the good, you are contributing to it, and bringing yourself closer to it. This doesn't mean you have to stop visiting your dad, but I guarantee if you changed your thoughts, and I mean really changed your thoughts, your experience of his negativity would CHANGE. You would stop sharing the experiences that were negative, you would only share experiences that were positive. Of course, if he were COMPLETELY negative, he would fall out of your experience completely, but obviously he is not, or you would not desire to see him in the first place.
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HA!! If you only knew my dad!
I'm not exaggerating when I say 95% of the time my dad is negative! It's a tough situation, dealing with him. I'm constantly struggling to keep myself in a good mood when I'm with him. I mostly just go see him because if I don't, he only gets more negative.
