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1) It is impossible to know every action that has ever been committed by every human being in the history of mankind.
2) But even if it was possible, it wouldn't tell us anything about future actions, about future humans.
originally posted by: redoubt
I've said this before but... gotta say it again:
We are a kindergarten species... and when the nursery door opens, we will be pooping our diapers.
originally posted by: redoubt
a reply to: gosseyn
We have NOT evolved.
We may have more knowledge but it is more in the sphere of technology than humanity. Today, we can (and do) still kill, behead, burn, hang and treat our fellow human beings as though they were less than animals.
Understanding this, to even consider that we can survive ourselves in the coming age... is, all but impossible.
I've said this before but... gotta say it again:
We are a kindergarten species... and when the nursery door opens, we will be pooping our diapers.
originally posted by: ignorant_ape
a reply to: solve
no - " good " and " evil " are subjective values
Dualism (from the Latin word duo meaning "two")[1] denotes the state of two parts. The term 'dualism' was originally coined to denote co-eternal binary opposition, a meaning that is preserved in metaphysical and philosophical duality discourse but has been more generalized in other usages to indicate a system which contains two essential parts.
Moral dualism is the belief of the great complement or conflict between the benevolent and the malevolent. It simply implies that there are two moral opposites at work, independent of any interpretation of what might be "moral" and independent of how these may be represented. The moral opposites might, for example, exist in a world view which has one god, more than one god, or none. By contrast, ditheism or bitheism implies (at least) two gods. While bitheism implies harmony, ditheism implies rivalry and opposition, such as between good and evil, or bright and dark, or summer and winter. For example, a ditheistic system would be one in which one god is creative, the other is destructive.
Nondualism, also called non-duality, "points to the idea that the universe and all its multiplicity are ultimately expressions or appearances of one essential reality."[1] It is a term and concept used to define various strands of religious and spiritual thought.[2] It is found in a variety of Asian religious traditions[3] and modern western spirituality, but with a variety of meanings and uses.[3][2] The term may refer to:
advaya, the nonduality of conventional and ultimate truth, or relative and Absolute reality:
Buddhist Madhyamaka, which says there is no absolute, transcendent reality beyond our everyday reality;
Chinese Mahayana, but also neo-Vedanta, which says that there is no absolute difference between the relative world and "absolute" reality;
advaita, the non-difference of Ātman and Brahman or the Absolute; it is best known from Advaita Vedanta, but can also be found in Kashmir Shaivism, popular teachers like Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj, and in the Buddha-nature of the Buddhist tradition;
"nondual consciousness", the non-duality of subject and object; this can be found in modern spirituality.