Sociopath Community

by Daddy

do you think people can be evil, as in who they are is an evil person?

 It not who we are, but rather who we become. We're always prone to change simply by desire. From where I stand, I can somehow see you're growing wiser and you are changing. Whatever desires you've had and will have again is all part of the higher learning process. Yes evil is real, and it can always be traced from it's source. When it comes to evil and us, it always has to do with our own weakness for temptation. All we want and what we do is of the flesh. This means all things physical, not just perving out. Find what is ideal for an eternal state of being, as opposed to what is temporary. We can be good or evil, there is no escape from life's hard lessons.

"You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain."

 Interesting, I see it the other way. That nature is inherently about life and health. And disease exists, where if there is imbalance that weakens health, then disease can set in or take over.

since humans have free will, and we learn from experience, then we compare positive and negative consequences of this action or that one.

Just like we learn what fosters health and healing, and what blocks or diminishes it.

Thus I agree there are both forces of positive and negative working, and both are important for learning over the longrun. but the overall process is positive that we learn and increase our effectiveness in life.

So I see the dominant force as positive, pushing toward life, love happiness. And the counter to that helps with comparison when making choices by free will

 I think good and bad or "evil" only exist in the mind.  EVERYTHING is neutral but our minds make it a certain way. 

I have what's called "ant theory" and it goes like this.  If you kill an ant, not a big deal, no ones cares at all, even "religious people" tend to not care or care that much.  But if you kill a person, you can go to jail for life.  Imagine the difference in reaction people, maybe even yourselves included, might have to finding out xyz person killed an ant and xyz person killed a human being.  It'd be night and day, as is obvious by life experience.  However, what's the difference between the miracle it takes to create an ant and the miracle it takes to create a human being? None.  So, lets say an alien species comes to Earth and comparatively, we are like ants to them, and they step on one of us, what's the difference?  Is it a big deal?  Maybe to us, but likely not to them.  It's all in our mind.  It's perspective.  Now, do I think we were created to just senselessly kill things?  Certainly not, but I think good and bad exist in the mind.

On that same note, I also believe we are not our minds or bodies, at our essence, and so "evil" comes when we attach ourselves solely to our thoughts and believe them to be who we are.  Ever met a person who's mad?  like at someone, like really mad?  You almost can't reason with them because their mind is racing and it causes them to do irrational stuff.  Now, have you ever met a "mad" person, someone who's "insane", it's the same state, racing thoughts, only all the time.  Now, do these people ever create "good"?  Usually not.  So madness and evil exist in the mind, not only as a perspective but also as a functionality.  If we can detach ourselves from our mind and observe our thoughts then we can realize that our thoughts are simply generated by our mind, which we are not our mind, and so we can realize that we don't have to be at the mercy of our mind or thoughts, our instead our mind can serve us instead of us serving our mind.