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Hate

Hate... so powerful a tool, yet so easily mishandled. Hate itself is nothing, and what is known as good is even less. After all, what is 'evil' and what is 'good'? Nothing really, since what you see from your perspective is different from the one of another. To lust over the suffering of another may have no effect on someone else.

Evil means nothing at all, since for you may see yourself as good and another person as evil; however, from their perspective, it is not them who are evil, but rather you. For example, in all past Medieval and Feudal wars, all soldiers fought and killed those like themselves. Both were told 'that the enemy were corrupted and tainted men, whose blood would stain even the purest of blades'. After all, their causes were the same, their hatred the same, and their ideas the same. All men and women are not born equal in front of their eyes, for they believed their enemies were not human.

Those who have evil inside of them also possess good, and those who have good inside of them also possess evil. Every man, woman and child have not only the capacity of doing great harm, but also great good. Although, there are some medical exceptions.

But now comes the next step: can someone be purely evil? I do not mean if someone can be completely evil, but rather if that evil can be pure, positive, good. Quite different isn't it? In any case, can anyone be so? The answer is yes. For someone to be evil, he must first be good. To understand the purity and gentleness in being so, a being must know all of this before being evil. how can one be evil if he cannot compare good and evil beforehand? How could he know what evil is without knowing what good is? By not knowing, he at some point would surely attack his own ill concieved ideologies.

In any case, if only good could exist, without evil, all we know would be quite easier. After all, the obscure ideas, places and events are all troublesome. In the end, we drown humanity and nature into a dark abyss which swallows us. Afterwards, people begin to grow angry, annoyed and hateful of others. What comes next? War; cities, ravaged by the tormenting of weapons wielded by angered men mostly. What is the next step? The destruction of all which stand in the way of a greater domination by the angered ones. But, at what cost? Humanity floods itself in a self-destruction mode. By killing itself slowly, and by murdering animals and nature, much is lost.

The Soul

A most interesting concept! However, a person cannot be made of anything but of two distinct things; one of them which does not include the 'soul'. First, there is the body which needs nothing or no one to survive by itself, though after a while it will die. It can feed on fat, muscles and the likes. Next, there is the 'mind' which is created by composition of the complexity of the body. To survive much longer, the body needs the cooperation of the brain alongside it, as to allow the 'mind' to function. The brain in turn creates a much more complex system; one which allows 'you' to think, move, feel (physically) and speak (or whatever speech a human has or has had, when any). And so, the body allows that process to take place, while transfering to you the ability to feel physical pain. It is an exchange between you, a 'mind' and between a physical body. While the body allows 'you' to have great potential as a person, in return you must allow it to survive. It knows that if it does not survive, you will die too. Thus, it uses 'you' as much as 'you' use it. It is an exchange of services.

In any case, there is no such thing as a 'soul', for the above mentioned reasons, and since humans are formed by the compositions of the body and brain which then forms the 'mind'. Or rather, we could say that the 'mind' realises that is has found a host, a body.

Current Status: Undergraduate Student, Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)

Majoring: Religion

Courses: Modern Islam (Completed)

Hindu Sadhana (Completed)

Intro to Islam (IP)
Human Geography (IP)