Evil is among us here.

Real evil exists, I think it’s true to say that it does. I began somewhat of an armchair study of world history by watching online university lectures starting a few years ago leading up until today. In order to imperfectly appreciate the full magnitude of how evil is working against people across the human experience I have tried to learn a little history. This learning process I believe has revealed for me a basic understanding, shared by a lot of people of course, that an undeniable evil exists and that this force has continually confronted human beings over time. 

Sitting here now sitting still in this room I have many thoughts traveling at light speed moving through my solitary mind in the quiet. To think in the world like this, thinking in the way I’m doing now and at different moments like this across time, means commonly enough having to face at certain instances, though we might not like to admit it, the personal invading influence of a force of actual evil on our lives.  We do sometimes face this obvious conclusion, of course, that some kind of real evil really does challenge us and our wellbeing in the world.  

A personal example I’m familiar with of evils influence for me occurs in my thoughts and other people I’ve met after we find ourselves facing certain hostile circumstances. Occurring after or during any kind of conflict situation with other people we know we may experience certain troubling thoughts attempting to drive potential action. These thoughts at these troubling times occur in the mind by attempting to motivate our behavior in retaliation in a kind of aggressive response against  people who have hurt us. The people we look at have hurt us by their words or behavior so now we find ourselves unavoidably desiring to punish them. What occurs to us, as a potential course of action, are thoughts of acting violently against them.

We must defeat evil here in the private, isolated, quiet places within our own mind. This personal invasion upon us individually really wants us to self-destruct and harm others. 

How might such influence on human thought penetrate the leaders minds in the higher levels of government. I believe unfortunately such leaders are just as susceptible to such influences.

 In trying to combat evil I’ve observed it to be true where at rare instances, at bad moments, but moments that do occur, we face and we confront serious choices and challenges within our thoughts. The source of the threat I know is actual evil.

I believe the struggle really arises for me in chaotic situations like when my feelings have been deeply hurt by someone’s words. When we are really troubled by hostile behavior, confronted by degrading words, or by really negative opinions of us we can find ourselves there in that state in a really troubling situation to begin with. We are effected there by an intense negativity and hostility against us. Those people suggest that they don’t hold us in high regard or with a favorable image that we really want others to have of us so it deeply hurt us for instance.

Before evil even acts if a person then goes out of their way to add additional humiliation to how we feel then In these few minutes or seconds of thought, in that troubled state of mind, a situation within the persons mind may potentially entertain thoughts of violence on it’s own.

It would take a lot of pain, a particularly hurtful situation for most of us, but then evil appears as a temptation offering a driving message, a retaliatory solution. Evil even begins to compete now as the viable course of potential action, usually through impulsive behavior, as a form of violent persuasion.

We are tempted by this force of evil in the universe and the mentally ill aren’t the only people. This persuasion adds fuel to any anger we have and try's to use our own anger to control our reasoning and desired course of action. Evils vision can use our own imagination effecting our own thoughts by placing in reach for us solutions arguing for potential violence as an ego saving restorative course of action we can take.

 This mischievous guiding influence try’s to have us pursue this violence impulsively by trying to have us think, in our defiance against our pain and who we think caused it, that this potential hostile behavior is justified as a course of actual action. In these moments of agitation we can have such angry thoughts coming at us through our pain that we have a hard time calming down and not being driven downstream with this current of aggression. 

I think the majority of people who face challenges like these in their thinking consider the violent ideas through clenched fists but these thoughts are never acted out in actual behavior. Nevertheless whether there is a harmful result of the thinking or not I believe the ideas that occur to us are ideas inspired by evil and that this evil is working on many human lives all of the time in the world.

 In the quiet of our minds we are confronted at moments of personal conflict with feelings which come at us while feeling intense emotional pain. To be here in the world amongst people is to experience negativity, condescension, rejection, contempt, blows to our ego, indifference to our reputation, discard for our wellbeing and general welfare, slights, conspiracies against us, threats both physical and emotional toward us.  We have to hold our heads up high and weather these storms but most people who fail at this test are never properly taught what to do in response to these challenges. They don’t know how to handle humiliation, heartbreak, dishonor, and other blows to their person.

Our choices are made in our minds in places and times where we feel this intense emotion effecting us. Outside of ourselves who we know in our neighborhoods and those circles of friends might be people who model all the wrong norms for us. Subcultures, little insular circles of peers, buddies, pals gathered together bouncing bad ideas off each other, can set the destructive norm’s standard in our life that seems too believable for us as good choices and credible reactions to our pain. However deeply flawed and dangerous these solutions we model for each other are, and however our future will end up bad because of the impact of listening to these influences, many people commonly fall victim to these norms nonetheless.   

It is really true too that our state of mind is in more chaos and danger then we recognize. We have to face these intensely felt hostilities internally and then the demonic solutions that can arise within us from beyond us. We are not evil and nor are these attacks rare. They come from outside of ourselves and prey on our self-interest that is faced with feelings of pain which our defenses are weary from confronting. Life just keeps throwing at us insults it seems. Then these satanic solutions play like a movie in many minds imaginations by imagining a violent response frame by frame in certain states of mind we find ourselves in through our anger.

This dark influence on the world is attempting to motivate retaliatory courses of action and disrupt human life. We may even act upon the ideas in the way it tempts us if we lose the war. It is because of the pain that we feel in seconds of hurt feelings like this that evil can try, and often does succeed, in making the case where it seems justifiable to us to listen to our defiant thoughts against people who hurt us somehow. The impact routinely means that many good people who react lose their futures after being lead by evil ideas.

Evils council doesn’t come with big signposts saying “I am evil and I’m here to ruin your life!” People likely don’t see evil as evil. Many people who do act upon the evil council don’t even understand that something better then these false solutions really has our honor, integrity, dignity, future happiness, much more in mind through and beyond our present pain. Our future wellbeing is at stake and who we may harms wellbeing is at stake also.

The reminders we have of past pain make us defiant against allowing new wounds to effect us. It presents us with our biggest challenge in life which is enduring these struggles peacefully. The rising hostility surfaces in our thoughts mysteriously enough and we can believe and be strongly suspect of these ideas origins.

The accumulated nurturing of negative thoughts like these will normalize evils pathway making it even easier in a moment of indecision to act impulsively. We act impulsively after we have normalized evils repetitious ideas innocently and obliviously over time because of our own vulnerability and inability to know a better response.

In these vulnerable states, at our big crossroads in life, our judgments, blurred and impaired by intense feelings, can’t foresee the consequences, or accurately define for us how our future will end up, when we listen to such council.

Many people won’t recognize the misinformed response as originating from evil and it will cause many people to act recklessly simply through naivety in their behavior. This means that many times evil will get its way and will win personal battles in the world by ruining good people’s lives unfortunately. If we choose to act with violence how will the life we choose to act against future end up also. How different will all our futures become.

We know and can tell something is not right in the human condition when we hurt from life.  What’s been said against us that hurts us does not represent who we “really are” in Gods eyes and we know this intuitively. Such attacks are not true about us really which makes this world seem more then unfair. The hate against us doesn’t fairly represent our inherent worth and we know and feel it knowingly.

Many people fantasize about pursuing courses of violent action too. If this to some degree isn’t true of millions of other people why then the fascination with revenge action in movies and violent video games. If many people out there don’t entertain thoughts of violence why is our society so full of such acting out of violent fantasy on television. These are common reoccurrences of mind with violent thought existing everywhere. Such thinking causes people to fantasize about various kinds of heroic behavior and also to imagine scenarios where they repay an enemy by violence. Prisons across the planet are full of evils victims who have taken violent thought a step too far. Evil keeps making victims in and outside of the institution walls. The problem of evil is a real one and it wants no good for any of us.

Why is evil here? Why is evil misleading so many of us. This force creates chaos, suffering, grief, terror, and fear by confusing and preying on people across history. How much power does evil really have and where did it even come from. The problem of evil is not fully understood by anyone including the greatest philosophers.

I know experientially that there is a very real force of supreme good in this life with God. The Holy Scripture verses below are words of Jesus. These scriptures, and many other Holy scriptures, have helped me to respond to evil when confronting it and facing and dealing with personal pain in my own life. I have honestly not lead a perfect life and I continue to struggle as I go forward from here.

 Please make yourself alert and keep on guard if you can relate at all to this blog and resist violence if you face these struggles I speak of like so many of us do in this world. Remember friends, “Blessed are the peacemakers.”

²¹ Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” ²² Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times. “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. ²⁶ So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’ ²⁷ And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. ²⁸ But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay what you owe.’ ²⁹ So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’ ³⁰ He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt. ³¹ When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place. ³² Then his master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’ And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers, until he should pay all his debt. ³⁵ So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”

Mathew 7

7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. ³ And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?⁴ Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?⁵ Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.⁶ Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

⁷ Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:⁸ For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.⁹ Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?¹⁰ Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?¹¹ If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?¹² Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.¹³ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:¹⁴ Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.¹⁵ Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.¹⁶ Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?¹⁷ Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.¹⁸ A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.¹⁹ Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.²⁰ Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

²¹ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.²² Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?²³ And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.²⁴ Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:²⁵ And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.²⁶ And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:²⁷ And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.²⁸ And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:²⁹ For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

Matthew 6

1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.² Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.³ But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:⁴ That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.⁵ And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

⁶ But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.⁷ But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.⁸ Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.⁹ After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.¹⁰ Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.¹¹ Give us this day our daily bread.¹² And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.¹³ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.¹⁴ For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:¹⁵ But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.¹⁶ Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.¹⁷ But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;¹⁸ That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:²⁰ But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:²¹ For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

²² The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.²³ But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!²⁴ No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.²⁵ Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?²⁶ Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?²⁷ Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?²⁸ And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:²⁹ And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.³⁰ Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?³¹ Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?³² (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

³³ But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.³⁴ Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Are we puppets dancing on someones strings

What if the sky above us has eyes watching us. What if we simply don’t notice or recognize that something is watching us now.

 

In this way then we are watched constantly all of the time including every word we speak, every idea we have. Our thinking is being monitored. All of our achievements and advancements in science and technology are continually being learned from. This spying on us by them is possible to achieve because of advancements in alien learning.

 

Why wouldn't we be watched if there really is intelligent life beyond us though. Wouldn’t it be likely that we’d do the same toward an inferior civilization. Why wouldn't other life that’s complex, wise, and potentially highly ethical, feel  cautiousness in approaching us. We haven’t shown that we are level headed in our track record of behavior. From their perspective, very likely, they don’t see us as having enough commonsense to be able to trust us.

 

Genocide on ethnic minorities, lobotomies on the mentally ill, dropping radio active bombs, neglect for people malnourished and starving, environmental destruction,  a history of enslavement of other people,  the many wars, crimes, and variety of ways of oppression, probably would not ease alien anxieties in their mistrust of us.

How could they believe from us that we possess the ability to be trusted enough to come to the table in a universal diplomatic forum of cooperation and knowledge sharing.

 

Can we offer other intelligent beings any consistency in their belief of our calmness or rational.  Do we have a track record of good judgment, predictability, or good behavior across time and location.

 

“Noooooooo we don’t have a good track record so we can’t show them that we do! We can’t show other life elsewhere that we have much commonsense. They know us too well to believe that lie. If they have observed us for a long time now they get what we’re about. They know that we’re mostly a bunch of rotten apples who can’t treat each other fairly most of the time. How could we be expected to treat them and their existence right if we began exchanging knowledge with each other. We’re always at war and a lot of the time we have lost a concern for our shared humanity. 

 

There are lots of arguments against our human goodness. Just to pick one that occurs to me is we’re mistaken in how we treat and understand each other. Take religion as an example. We see many other people’s eternal future with coldness. We come to easily to understandings about other people that abandon any hope they have in God’s plan. We see no hope for them beyond this world. In these common beliefs God can’t be seen as everyone’s God.

 

That is just one example of our divisions, our quickness to sign off on each other, of how divided we are and how easy we abandon our friends for our own interests in this case supposedly our ticket to immortality. We lack a capability to love others adequately. We find ourselves often with no way to know a love that can transcend borders and empathize with humans of other beliefs. We resist in the process loving fearlessly and justifiably with conviction everyone.

 

There are all kinds of arguments to be pointed out that point out that we can’t be trusted too. We are constantly at war for one obvious example. Often, in many examples, we act with great cruelty to each other. So then are we  unsuited, unfit and unable to step up to the table of a type of ecumenical, world wide table, in this case a table belonging to every being in the galaxy or perhaps even every being in the universe.

 

If we are too bad to cooperate perhaps we should see ourselves as the scum and hopeless delinquents of the universe.

 

Hold on now though wait a second! The thing about us humans, in defense of us now, is all of these problems that we know aren’t they problems constantly beyond our control to even stop or control them. Aren’t these problems problems that our imperfect human ability is often unavoidably unable to control in the moment.

 

There are many influences we face that misguide our decision making or overwhelm our capabilities to respond or fix the difficulties. These problems cloud human judgment,  contaminate our negotiations, interfere with the right kind of spread of ideas. With inflamed fanaticism, people divides by territory and political belief, these, and many other factors, disrupt how able we are to harmoniously interact with each other creating the difficult and often unsolvable problems we face.

 

We could criticize ourselves saying we are to blame, how it’s our fault for this, insisting it’s our own complacency that is involved here. Doesn’t however, if we look at our struggles honestly, an unstoppable kind of chaos act in these processes though. The disturbances in human thought leading to chaos, division, conflict commonly complicate human society and makes it more then difficult, often impossible, for us to control the forces in the world around us. These chaotic problems lead to many human difficulties.

 

Is at all always possible for us to understand how these influences really are working. Shouldn’t we recognize the limitations on us for controlling autocrats, nature, ideas, propaganda, moving armies, and many processes of thought producing change. 

 

Our we being effected by an unseen guiding influence. We have been trying to make life so much more inhabitable for human beings. We have struggled to create a peaceful world order, bring people out of poverty, advance civilization, react together to stop war, and end state aggression. The people involved acting politically can be crazed, deeply irrational, and cruelly ambitious.

 

I have a question to posse:

 

Are we unaware of what really could be guiding these people here. Does something else from somewhere else have an overarching influence in controlling or effecting people’s ambitions. Why do our ideas collide with other minds in the world after being egged on by some process of mind in our thoughts. In other words Is there a shit disturber from beyond reaping havoc on human history.

 

As we think about life, about ideas, form personal beliefs we are lead places in our thoughts commonly. Rising up in those thoughts, through our anger commonly, appears a desire to resent others. We find solidarity in our minds vision bringing together ideas of who is like us and shares our interests as we work out in our thoughts finding our allies with people like us and then ruthlessly we turn directing our reoccurring rising anger at an enemy, a scapegoat, our source for directing habitually enjoyed hatred. This drive is commonly directed toward a minority group, another race, a foreign country or another religion.

 

Might something control our minds thinking. Might something somewhere else other then here have an influence on us in these thoughts we generate.

 

The majority of the conflicts people are lead into each generation cause great suffering and this suffering won’t matter strategically in a hundred years from now. From the graveyard if we could look back at these convictions we have embracing racism, conflict and war how much sense will it make to us from there the other side.

 

Are we then puppets on someone else’s diabolical strings then. We keep naively acting against one other across history in our world.  There is a problem here for us to question carefully. We don’t really know where these germinating seeds come from that began growing these seeds (ideas) in men’s ambitions.

 

When speaking of these seeds developing in histories villains where did those particularly cruel visions of history come from. The how and why for it happening is a mystery.

 

Such seeds have grown in men spurring on a vicious, cruel, hate, for whatever reason. These drives, after taking virulent root in certain human imaginations, have meant people killed, wounded and terrorized by the millions. These ideas lead armies and secret police to perpetrate horrendous crimes causing death, destruction, and suffering on a massive scale in our world.

 

So If we want to sit at the table with other beings in the universe maybe reluctantly we must admit to them we’re to blame for ourselves. Maybe we’re not good enough to join the rest of the universe.

 

Or maybe, perhaps, we don’t know who our real enemies are yet. Maybe we should question whether our enemies are other human beings or alternatively perhaps whether our real enemies are someone else, some being,  somewhere else out in the universe.

 

I ask you this where did Adolf Hitler's dark vision come from or Stalin's strange vision for where he lead communism in his infatuation for rounding up the middle classes and even their offspring to be killed by the millions. What compelled these men’s minds driving them toward this level of hate for other human beings.

 

Maybe other beings elsewhere in the universe keep an eye on us humans, it’s possible that they do. Maybe it’s a weary eye too when they watch us. Perhaps they have an alert level that keeps getting more severe in response to our advancements technologically. They might keep watching us to see what progress we’re presently making and how much of an increasing threat we posse to others in the universe. They perhaps will keep watching us until it comes to a point in time that we can't be permitted to progress any further. Then the unthinkable must happen to us.

 

Or perhaps we’re the victims in the universe and a cruel enemy somewhere out there is causing our demented dance through the ages as they, the puppeteers, pull our strings and watch us struggle.