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Having trouble answering the question of if humanity is really good, and even more trouble answering the question of why that really matters to me.
Comment by LocationFar6608 at 17/01/2025 at 18:16 UTC
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Do you ask the trees if they are good? The squirrel that eats the tree's nuts is she good. The owl that eats the squirrel is he good? They are all here just like we are. All that is good in them is good in us, and all that is bad in them is bad in us.
Comment by EFIW1560 at 17/01/2025 at 13:56 UTC
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ETA: NEVER stop asking yourself why. That is the beating heart of discernment. Question everything, most especially ourselves.
We are everything. Good, bad, kind, hateful, passionate, apathetic, honest, liars, courageous, afraid, hard-working, lazy, compassionate, spiteful, and on and on.
The key is that we CHOOSE. every day, we make hundreds of choices, and it is our ability to consciously choose that is our unique gift. This is why discernment is such a crucial skill we need to be teaching ourselves and in our schools. But that would awaken us to the power we all already innately have, and those in power want us angry and afraid. If more people were aware of the immense power we each have in our choices, and if we learn how to discern and to see both immediate impacts and also long term impacts of our choices, then fear and anger loosen their grip on us. A people who harnesses the power of their choices, is a people that cannot be easily controlled by anger and fear.
Choose wisely.
Comment by superpowerquestions at 17/01/2025 at 09:17 UTC
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Regardless of whether humanity as a whole is good or not, there are *many* individual people who are good. When terrible things happen I try to remember that.
Comment by forestpunk at 17/01/2025 at 08:54 UTC
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We're not. We just *are*. Capable of much good, bad, and all points between.