Gracious. I haven't posted in almost a week. I've been busy with starting my job and all other sorts of shenanigans...I'll just stop. That's an excuse. And this is simply unredeemable.

So there is no such thing as 'evil.' There is only ignorance and misunderstanding. People don't murder because they are 'evil' or 'bad people.' They just don't understand the implications of their actions. An inability to understand life for what it is and act accordingly is the sole culpable aspect of people's decisions. Furthermore, some categorically horrendous acts of mankind or of certain individuals are largely not her or his fault (fun activity: locate the uber PC construction of that sentence, then give yourself a pat on the back). Rather they are due to an accumulation of past formative events that shape a person and his or her decisions, which are themselves largely due to "chance"(I find that word's usage ambiguous and somewhat controversial and only use it for simplicity's sake).

Basically I believe that no one is at fault for their 'poor' decisions, or for their 'good' ones, for that matter. When a child puts his or her hand on somthing hot, recoils, and bursts out crying from the pain, the parent usually says something to the effect of "it's ok baby...you didn't know." Life is just a hot surface of escalating complexity, at the end of which (it would be nice, anyway) a god would say "it's ok man...you didn't know."

Why do we think so statically? Why do we think we know everything? We laugh at what people thought about life a thousand years ago. Do we really presume that Earthlings of a thousand years ahead won't laugh at us as well? And what evidence is there that we are even getting closer to any kind of ultimate Truth anyway? Science surely demonstrates that matter obeys certain principles here in our reality. But what is there to illustrate that our reality has any meaningful bent on ultimate Truth?

We think this way because it is comforting. It is comforting to believe that one can assign meaning to life and believe it to be true. The pattern of history, however, shows that this action has been largely futile, again only assuming that our reality has some bent on Truth. Why questions are diminishing as How explanations rise. Will we reach the point where there will be no Why questions left? only How explanations? Or will conscious species first be selected against because the advantages of consciousness will become slight compared to the increasing ability to apprehend life as meaningless?

Existentialism posits a solution - assign your own meaning. Is that not a medication? Here take this dose of self-proscribed meaning for your life is meaningless attacks.

Are we conceding that life is a disease?

I demand a better and universal belief system.