veD OF GOOD AND EVIL:.....EVIL PREDOMINATES IN TIME ERA CALLED kli-yug.....CAN PRESENT DAY "RELIGIONS" WHICH ARE moH-shaasTR CREATED BY shiv-bhgvaan H
Posted by Vishva News Reporter on March 25, 2004

SCIENCE OF GOOD AND EVIL:
GOOD IS THAT UPHOLDS DHARm
 and
EVILS IS THAT UPHOLDS ADHARm

GOOD in English language cultures is defined as:   

  • something that possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, or is otherwise beneficial  as in "teach a child to know good from evil";

  • something that satisfies or commends itself to the ethical consciousness or is conceived as fitting in the moral order of the universe; 

  • the character of human beings or of their attitudes, motives, and actions that is morally praiseworthy and defined as ETHICS;

  • conforming to a certain ideal or standard of morality or virtue.

EVIL in English language cultures is defined as:

  • Evil is the antithesis of good, especially in moral or moralistic considerations;

  • not good morally : marked by bad moral qualities : violating the rules of morality;

  • arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct;

  • the fact of suffering and wickedness : the totality of undesirable, harmful, wicked acts, experiences, and things;

  • a cosmic force producing evil actions or states.

 
From wikipedia -The Free Encyclopedia:  Evil is a very old term for describing that which is believed by some to be morally bad, corrupt, wantonly destructive, selfish, and wicked. It is one half of the duality of good and evil expressed, in some form or another, by some cultures. It describes a hierarchy of moral standards with regard to human behaviour; evil being the least desired, while love is usually the most praised. In a casual or derogatory use, the word "evil" can characterize people and behaviours that are painful, ruinous, or disastrous. (Please enlighten yourself more on this reading by clicking on the red highlite at the beginning of this paragraph)

According to a psychologist and science historian MICHAEL SHERMER:

  • "The myth of good and evil is grounded in Christian theology and the belief that such forces exist independently of their carriers, either directing the course of history toward benevolent or nefarious ends, or within individuals driving them to perform good acts or evil deeds. As adjectival modifiers, good and evil well describe many acts and people. But as nouns, they imply autonomous existence, as in forces- of-evil.
     

  • In a scientific worldview, however, there is no such thing as good and evil as supernatural forces operating outside the realm of the known laws of nature and of human behaviour."

At PVAF the whole purpose of spreading knowledge of SCIENCES OF CREATION AND LIFE which in sNskRUt language is known as veD is to be GOOD in life and avoid everything EVIL in all kARm that one performs with every breath of life one takes.....

And for this sort of lifestyle one of the prescriptions in veD is that perform all your kARm as per DHARm and that will bring GOODNESS and HAPPINESS and such lifestyle is  called lifestyle of puAN`y kARm...DHARm is all the rules and regulations of the creation, sustainance and de-creation/recreation in this universe...The very basic requirement of DHARm is never to hurt a fellow creation in word, thoughts or deeds......

The opposite of puAN`y kARm lifestyle is the paapi kARm lifestyle in which kARm are performed breaking all the rules and regulations of DHARm which in turn inflicts pain and suffering on one's fellow creations....

In veD it also states that paapi kARm will force you to face in future the same pain you inflicted on others...whereas puAN`y kARm will reward you in future with returns of joy and happiness....

We live in kli-yug time era in which the environment provides us with every chance not to uphold DHARm....Thus, PVAF would like to hear from YOU on this topic....just write away your thoughts by clicking on the POST A COMMENT in the header of this news item...(The preceding introduction on the subject was provided by SRii chmpklaal Daajibhaai misTRii of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada as part of the daily study of veD on this PVAF web site)

And to help you to have more reflections on GOOD and EVIL in addition to reading on the wikipedia -The Free Encyclopedia:  Evil continue reading the article titled "Something evil this way comes: It is too simple to blame evil people for horrifying acts of terror" by MICHAEL SHERMER as noted above from Canadian Globe and Mail by clicking on the preceding red hilite or reading on this PVAF web site by clicking on the next line....
 



 

 

Something evil this way comes:
It is too simple to blame evil people for horrifying acts of terror,

By MICHAEL SHERMER
Canadian Globe and Mail: Saturday, March 13, 2004 - Page A21

I once had the opportunity to ask Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's List, what he thought was the difference between Oskar Schindler, rescuer of Jews and hero of his story, and Amon Goeth, the Nazi commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp. His answer was revealing. Not much, he said. Had there been no war, Mr. Schindler and Mr. Goeth might have been drinking buddies and business partners, morally obtuse, perhaps, but relatively harmless. What a difference a war makes, especially to the moral choices that lead to good and evil.

Ever since 9/11, the discussion of good and evil has migrated out of the departments of philosophy and theology and into our social and political discourse. U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair generously sprinkle their public orations with the terms, describing Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein as the embodiment of pure evil.

3/11, 2004 Thursday's bombings in Madrid added another layer. Mr. Bush called them "a grim reminder that there are evil people in the world who are willing to kill innocent life."

I understand the political rhetoric, but when millions of people around the world celebrate 9/11 as a triumphant victory over what they perceive to be an evil America, or when others see the horror inflicted in Spain as a means to their goals, we need to move beyond politics to arrive at a deeper understanding of good and evil.

The myth of good and evil is grounded in Christian theology and the belief that such forces exist independently of their carriers, either directing the course of history toward benevolent or nefarious ends, or within individuals driving them to perform good acts or evil deeds. As adjectival modifiers, good and evil well describe many acts and people. But as nouns, they imply autonomous existence, as in forces- of-evil.

In a scientific worldview, however, there is no such thing as good and evil as supernatural forces operating outside the realm of the known laws of nature and of human behaviour.

Good and evil are human constructs. A shift between two tectonic plates that causes the earth to make a sudden movement is not inherently evil. It is the effects of the earthquake that we judge to be evil. Likewise, bacterial diseases are not intrinsically evil. By causing humans to sneeze, cough, vomit, and have diarrhea, bacteria are simply doing what evolution designed them to do to survive and propagate. As their human hosts, we may label the effects of a disease as evil, but the disease itself has no moral existence.

Humans, however, do have a moral existence. We evolved to be moral animals, but by no means always moral. Individuals in our evolutionary ancestral environment needed to be both co-operative and competitive, for example, depending on the context. Co-operation leads to more successful hunts, food sharing, and group protection from predators and enemies. Competition leads to more resources for oneself and family, and protection from other competitive individuals who are less inclined to co-operate, especially those from other groups.

Social psychologists have well demonstrated how moral behaviour is tractable, and that there is a range of potential for the expression of moral or immoral behaviour. Which direction any one of us takes in any given situation depends on a complex array of variables. A number of historical contingencies drove Oskar Schindler to travel down a morally different path from Amon Goeth, even though he could just as easily have gone the other way. From there, the cascading consequences of each decision took each of them down their alternately chosen tracks; the moral road not taken makes all the difference.

An obfuscating aspect of the myth of good and evil is an asymmetry that exists in our moral observations about human nature. In our assessment of what people are really like, we have a tendency to focus on evil acts and ignore the fact that most of the time, most people are gracious, considerate, and benevolent. For every act of violence or deception that appears on the nightly news, there are 10,000 acts of kindness that go publicly unnoticed. In fact, violence and deception make the news precisely because they are out of the ordinary.

The purpose of this exercise in ethical debunking is to shift the focus from good and evil as metaphysical Platonic essences to quantifiable human behaviours that can be scientifically studied, causally understood, and ultimately modified. If pure evil exists, how can we hold people morally culpable? The deepest problem with the myth of good and evil is that it implies that if only we could rid the world of the evil, then good would triumph.

As one who would know from his experience with the gulags of the Soviet Union (surely a den of evil if ever there were one), Alexander Solzhenitsyn explained why the myth is so perilous: "If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"

Eliminating the world's Osama bin Ladens, the Saddam Husseins or the perpetrators of this week's latest carnage will not put an end to evil. But debunking the myth and taking a more scientific approach to understanding good and evil will start us down the path of immoral extrication and moral enlightenment.

Michael Shermer is publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and the author of The Science of Good and Evil.



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