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Are any of you familiar with Carl Jung? If not, then I suggest you do.

But that is not my reason to come to you today. Rather it is to, perhaps, open your eyes should you chose to do so.

What makes good, good and evil, evil? Should both be simply placed as one or the other? If the 'evil' become the ruling force, would the rules be reversed? If someone steps up to remove a tyrant, are they doing good, or, in the eyes of others, are they being the ones who are evil?

...Or are we what makes these forces exist in the first place? Can good be really called good if there is no evil to defeat, no goal for them to attain?

You were all called here for a reason, but should you believe one side...or the other about what is the truth? As we become more enlightened, we tend to forget what came before. And as history has a tendency to repeat itself...

A man looks above to the nearby mountain. He knows not how it was made, and therefore decides that a god put it there. Is this man false? Scientifically, perhaps, we know that mountains are produced by the movement of lithospheric plates. Yet when we knew nothing of this, we saw the truth in a god. And so, this idea is born and now exists. Man gave it power, and the ability to create the mountain is now that god's.

Personas are reflections of a character's inner self, yet they are the gods, demons and powerful creatures of our worlds.

So then...can a man become a god...or was he always one?

Comments

[ghost_shield]

My line of work sort of relies on maintaining a reasonable capacity for seeing shades of gray. Of course, it also requires understanding the fine balance between reasonable and unreasonable demands. I can see the constructions, but I'm still human, so I have my own ideas on what good and evil entail. This isn't to say they can't be complicated on occasion, but I have to take a stand sometimes or else risk just being walked all over, and potentially getting myself hurt -- or worse, others. If this means occasionally being forced to judge, so be it.

[therooms]

And if that choices came between saving the world, or saving the life of a friend, what would you pick?

[ghost_shield]

*He mulls this. Oh, how he mulls this.*

In the end, the deaths that would result would haunt me no matter what I chose.

*He thinks further.*

The emotional part thinks my friend, because I treasure my friends. The rational part calls for the world, because we cannot continue to exist without it anyway.

*More thinking. This is...*

...I cannot honestly answer that question right now. But I would hope that should me and my friends find myself in a situation like that...

*He takes a deep breath. Calm down. It's not a final decision. It's not like it matters what an anonymous person thinks of him, right?*

...then I hope we trust each other enough to make the sacrifices needed. I know this much: If I had an option, I would die first before I would let my friends die.

*One final pause.*

...Frankly, I don't think there is a right answer to this question. Just a personal one.

[therooms]

Man is an emotional creature, after all. Rationality can easily be thrown out the window should a situation turn dire.

[ghost_shield]

I suppose, but it'd be no fun if we were all a bunch of emotionless robots. There'd be no spice to life. A small price to pay to be interesting, I guess.

[therooms]

I suppose that might be true.

Just remember all you said today if anything were to happen.

[ghost_shield]

Gosh, that's not at all ominous. I'm going to remain cautiously optimistic for now so that if something DOES happen, I'm not too depressed to screw it up worse, okay?