Showing posts with label evil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evil. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Philosophy Wire: Villains…


People may find fictional villains surprisingly likeable when they share similarities with the viewer or reader. [1] Look at the darkness. You are afraid. Not because you see nothing there. But because you do. Not because there is nothing in the dark looking right back at you. But because it is you staring from the shadows. And for some reason, that frightens you not…

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Sunday, July 2, 2017

God is Dead. Along with some babies. The era of Enlightenment as an Era of Evil.


'We promised our little boy every single day that we would take him home',
said the mother of little Charlie. We want to give him a bath at home,
put him in a cot which he has never slept in but we are now being denied that.
We know what day our son is going to die but don't get a say in
how that will happen' [mother of Charlie - source]

An article written in the occasion of the Charlie Gard case...

The cosmos is an evil place.

This is the harsh reality today. And anyone not admitting it, is either lucky enough to have temporarily avoided that evil, stupid or part of that evil.

We live in the age of death. Not death in the sense of physically dying. This was always the case. And all we had to do was to accept it. But a spiritual death.

We are in the age of euthanasia justified by the notion of "human dignity". As if all those people who die every passing minute have non. We live in the age of killing babies, where the murder is named "termination" and the "right to my body" is misinterpreted as a right to destroy another person into pieces and suck him into a vacuum only because you prefer drinking mojitos at Mykonos without anyone annoying you. We live in the age of childless leaders, who prefer to adopt dogs rather than human children who suffer. We live in the age of society destroying the notion of family, thus sentencing the souls of young child into a life of misery, just in order to be regarded as "progressive". And this happens at the same time when pedophilia is starting to be considered acceptable in the name of the "enlightenment" of our "modern" society. We live in the age of hospitals and courts deciding who lives and who dies, all in the name of some nicely named "right". We live in the era where people believe in science, which in turns believes humans as spiritual beings do not exist...

God is dead.

He used to Be among us. But we killed him.
Because we were part of Him as well.
And we could thus kill Him with our own actions if we wished so.

God is dead.

And no, this is not something to celebrate about.
Charlie is in his cot now. Don't cry anymore...

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Philosophy Wire: Wickedness. Evil. Virtue. Will. [Christianity = The DIFFICULT path]


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2017-02-09]: Hannah Arendt said that to do great evil one does not need to be someone special. Even the most common people can become the biggest criminals. The case of Nazis showed this clearly. It needs strong will to be good. And the lack of will (free will) is the beginning of the road or evil. One only has to just surrender to his passions to become bad. One must make true effort to stay good. This is something all those who speak with ease against religion with the logic that it is chosen by the people for relief need to remember. No, Christianity does not teach the EASY path. It teaches the DIFFICULT path! You feel nothing but relief when you know and truly understand that you have to be in a constant struggle against evil.

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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Philosophy Wire: Inequality. In your brain. But not in your mind?


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-04-30]: Scientists claim that altering brain chemistry makes us more sensitive to inequality. [1] We try to fix our problems by changing our brain. But what would happen if we realized that it is our brain that is responsible for these problems? Without brain, without thought, there is no inequality. Without thought there is no malice. Do not think how you will solve the problems. Thinking is what created them in the first place. See the flower. Smell the woods. Without too much thought. Do you feel better?

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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Philosophy Wire: Germans, Nazi, good, bad…

arendt1Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-05-18]: Germany 1939-1945. Weird… The good and law-abiding are the bad. The bad are the good. [1]

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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Philosophy Wire: Yes we kill babies. Yes, God is “dead”...

14cxPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-11-26]: A pregnant woman with twins decided to kill one of the embryos because it had some heart problems that would require extensive surgeries to fix (!!!) However the doctors made a mistake and injected the wrong embryo, thus killing the more healthy one [source: BBC News]. We kill embryos. We decide who lives and who dies on the basis of nothing more than our personal comfort. Modern medicine has become fully de-humanized. And science is the one who dictates who should and who should not live. Darwin would be so proud: we finally get to kill the “weak”! Nietzsche was right after all: God is indeed “dead”. Sadly enough, we have become “gods” in his place…

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Philosophy Wire: Giotto, the Demon, seeking and finding…

_56525082_frescoreutPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-11-08]: A devil's face hidden for centuries has been revealed in a fresco by the Italian renaissance master Giotto [source: BBC News]. A face that no one saw for many years is now visible… It was there forever. But only now did someone seek the demon and found him. Only now can we “see” him…

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