Emotional Spreading - Page 4

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If you were all powerful could (or would) you build a boulder that you couldn't lift?

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Is that in any way relevant to the point, no, but to the dodging of it, most certainly.

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Maybe God did create evil

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I win.

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How does one create oneself? God simply always existed then He decides to make other things exist as well.

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How does one always exist, how does one speak as if they know when they do not, how does one stop this broken record?

God could make any size boulder He wanted to if it would serve His will.

It makes more sense for God to have always existed than for Him to create Himself.

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I believe that those negativies spawn from a sense of self-loathing, which spawns from an insecurity of some kind

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You fail to address where the self loathing comes from. Did it start there? was it learned?

how do we as humans, rid ourselves as well as eachother of self loathing? even in the strongest and most understanding of relationships it is quite difficult to convince the other person to believe something contradictory to what has already been imprinted in them.

indeed parenting is a key to the spread of more positivity, yet there will always be differences among people. from what ive gathered, people become very uncomfortable in new and different environments.

this topic almost seems to complicated for my own mind now. there are so many facets. cultural differences, economical differences as well as psychological/sociological differences. do these all breed negativity? does a single difference or deviance to the norm automatically create hate?

evil, hate, negativity... they all appear quite neccisary, yet most strive for complete positivity and happiness.

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There is only one solution, it is the best solution, and it is the true solution:

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Where do you get the right to claim your solution is best?

well, dont take everything so personally and literally ethereal. its an opinion, its a solution that works for Decius im guessing.

im not sure why you seem so defensive.

People always challenges me when I claim to be right so why can't I challenge others? Where is the statistical probability to support this claim? How do we know that empathizing with murderers will not just create a desire for more people to murder?

Either negativity is going to exist or we exist without emotional ups and downs.

i cant even imagine life without negativity.

"We are one but we're not the same; we've got to carry each other"
Bono, U2.

Decius you don't mention the fact that this is a violation of free will as it forces everyone to feel for everyone else. This is why equality is such a tough concept to grasp. People need limitations in order to live at peace. That being established how do you force everyone to empathize at the same time? If one person deviates he brings the whole group down because the problem with empathy is that if you are not stronger than the one you empathize with you will conform to that person's will.

I LIKE DECIUS IDEA, IT SEEMS LIKE A GOOD WAY TO LIVE BY, BUT ETHEREAL HAS A POINT, A SOLUTION AT A MORE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL COULD BE, THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS PERPOSED BY THE BUDDHA.

No solution will work because we as a society would rather kill ourselves than give up this notion of free will. And so no matter what you decide would be a working solution we would have to let people choose not to do it and that undermines the whole system.

i think the real problem lies in varying abilities to empathize. if it were unquestioned, constant and perpetual there would still be varying degrees...

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but it is in fact the decisions we make as a species

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But not everyone will decide on this particular method. Other people will have different ways of dealing with trouble and they will find like minded people as well so you still end up with multiple groups and therefore you cannot get all people to empathize. And these groups will each think their way is best and so conflict will always remain unless you force people to make the same decision.