The Mother of Reality

If it weren't for certain forces of nature that we usually call "evil", merely because from our perspective they cause us to experience pain and suffering, then none of us would be here at all; which is to say, there would BE no experience.

I usually like to define evil as the product of fear and ignorance, which results in the emotion we call hate, and affects the behavior or other projection of reality that we call evil. But, that's just one way of defining it, and there are many.

Another way to define evil - keeping in mind that we're still talking about the same phenomenon - is as, anything that invokes inbalance, or "injustice" in a normally harmonious, or ordered, system, such as our personal life or social community. This definition is usually the one we use when we think about crime, and is commonly used by the aficionados of justice to justify their devotion to "restoring order" via their written (i.e. invented) laws.

One thing that both of these definitions have in common, indeed that all definitions of evil require, is the concept of disrupted order. Whether order is disrupted by an act of hate, or one of greed and avarice, or even by mere random chance, if our perception of order is disturbed then we experience the pain of the loss and suffer because of so-called evil.

Most people who use the "justice definition" of evil in order to justify doing evil to others (as I once did and as the entire so-called "Criminal Justice System" does routinely) seldom stop to consider the implications of what they are doing (i.e. propagating the very "evil" that they profess to be against). No one likes to admit that they are evil, especially not those who do the most evil of all (i.e. politicians, religious leaders, law makers, law keepers, etc...). But, something that even those who study and write about such human falacies (i.e. philosophers, social scientists, mystics, etc...) seldom consider is that this systematic and ignorant propagation of evil is also a fundamental and necessary part of nature, not just living nature, but all of nature, indeed. All of existence.

If there were no force in nature that could cause the disruption of order, or if such forces could be somehow completely suppressed (by other forces for example), then the Big Bang itself would never have occured.

We don't know a lot about the Big Bang, but we do now it happened, and we also know that whatever caused it to happen was something that disrupted the order of nothingness. Actually, the term "nothingness" is a misnomer in this context, but the very basic principles of known physics tells us that nothing can happen without a fundamental disruption of order. This is the core principle behind quantum physics, and is commonly referred to as the "uncertainty principle".

Basically, what I'm saying, is that "evil" is a critical and indespensible part of our reality. In fact, you could even truthfully say that evil is the mother of all reality!

(J.D. 7-4-2014)