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Okay, today, I have a
question for you. I'd love for you

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to send me an email at skeptic
Metephysician at gmail dot com or go to

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site, whatever you prefer. But
the question is regarding duality. What are

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your thoughts on that to mean?
This book that is trying to explain these

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kinds of duality questions to the Eastern
world, And in one chapter he writes

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this. He says, in the
beginning of the Bible, God speaks of

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a tree of wisdom with two kinds
of fruits, which he tells Adam not

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to eat. That means don't reach
for the goodfruit. He doesn't say don't

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eat the evil fruit. Now on
the moment that Adam wants what's good,

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automatically he doesn't want what's bad.
Once you take one side, the other

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side follows. Apparently, so God
said, don't reach for what's good.

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There's no evil or good in you. Stay away from those dualities. But

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if you begin to argue that,
no, no, this is good,

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why can't I taste it? Then
even as you do it, you'll be

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classifying something else. As bad.
When there's one quality, the opposite sea

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is always there. God asks Adam
to remain above this good and bad,

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pleasure and pain, all of those
dualities. But Adam saw only the good

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and he wanted to taste its fruit, so its counterpart, evil arose.

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That's what the book says. So
here's the question I have for you,

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is that your thought process is there
no good or evil unless you choose one

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or the other. I mean,
what I'm getting from that passage basically,

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and from quite a bit of the
bog of a Gida, is the advice

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to be detached from the outcome of
good or evil. Basically, it's saying

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that if you don't reach for good, then evil can't exist because the minute

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you reach for good, it immediately
and automatically creates its equal or evil.

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So I don't know how I feel
about that, and because I'm conflicted about

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it, I need to ask you
what your thoughts are. This show has

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always been about learning, not us
teaching you, but us all learning together,

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and that's where this question comes from, because in this case, I'm

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honestly not sure how I feel about
it, and I really really appreciate your

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thoughts on this passage. Have we
been going about this all wrong? Should

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we not see good or evil at
all, but rather just be? I

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mean, everyone from the day we
were born is talking to us about how

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important it is to be a good
person, And then the act of telling

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our kids to be good people is
that then automatically creating bad people? Is

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there such a thing as good people
and bad people? Sure, there's people

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who do good and people who do
things that are not really that good for

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others, but they might do good
for themselves. Right, So, I

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think in most classic fiction, you
see the evil person, for the most

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part, doing what they think is
good for them. It doesn't matter if

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it's good for others or not.
But I don't think no. I mean,

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I think there's very few times when
you see people doing bad things just

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for the sake of doing bad things. Right? Oh yeah, you see.

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That's why I'm conflicted when it comes
to duality. Are we supposed to

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be completely detached from good or evil
and just be like, are we doing

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this all wrong? By choosing to
be good? Do we create then bad?

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Should we just not vote one way
or the other? Anyway? I

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really love to hear your thoughts.
Skeptic menivosician dot com or Skeptic Metehsician at

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gmail dot com. That's enough of
my blathering