People, Deities, Beliefs and Good and Evil (Day #17)

I have a certain type of love for people, I really genuinely do. I want to believe that people are 'good'. Good in the sense that people care for others around them and would do things out of the kindness of their hearts to help others succeed as much as they would themselves... If not more, by putting another in front of you. You would be surprised to see that most would not dare to do so. I want to think that people are good in the sense that not only themselves exist in the world and other people actually matter.  LyLy and I were talking last night about the fact that we both always seem to look for the good in people. Even when we they are mean, angry, upset, rude or just nasty, we both tend to be naive and hope for good. Yes we both have things to work in this aspect, but then again who doesn't? If you're always seeing the bad side in/with people then you're the same as us but flipped. If you're stuck in between and you do a little of both, I would have to say you are a little confused with yourself and others in the world. Finding that happy medium could take as long as we both live to figure out, if even that. Will we both ever give up? Negative!! Giving up is not a option from any stand point for people such as LyLy and I. We are here to make a difference in the world and with the hope to see the world change and to become a better place by implementing our knowledge and understanding of good into the world. It just takes one person to start a world of change and the rest is up to the individual subjected by it and so on.

There are different variations of the words good and bad, or true and false; people use them to their advantage , or in some cases their disadvantage. These traditional and overworked ideologies are based on the human moral intuition (if you will). Some say we have gathered this intuition of good and bad (evil) from the religious perspectives, but then how did the ancient greeks know of these just, unjust, good, bad and evil moralities? Well....peoples such as the greeks were not monotheistic, but polytheistic, they believed in multiple different gods rather than one. People have been believing in deities since man can recall, whether it be one or many gods. These ways of belief have structured ways of thought through out history and through its societies/civilizations in countless acts of sentimental action. Because this is so, our way of life, outlook, culture, perception and very way of life is fixed. Is this a bad fix? No! But then again, who is to say otherwise? Religion has helped construct our determining factors of good and evil, what's worth doing during ones lifetime and what type of life to lead will direct in satisfaction and contribute to society or the well being of ones self and others through out. The Greeks knew that the individual was something 'key' in how we determine our ways of life. The citizen is what helps make life essential in communities, more organized, democratic and more structured. Before this idea of the individual, there was 'no individual.' It would be like a Dictatorship/Monarchical society where their word IS the word. Whatever they believed, you better damn well believe is what you believed, or off with your head it was hahaha. At this time in age to kill another human being for a dispute or adultery or whatever, was normalcy. It was the way of life and continued to be until around the 9th century a.d. when people were gathering multiple different monotheistic deity secs worldwide. This helped to control their populations and contribute to the well being of society. That and the fact that a lot of rulers, or kings wanted larger areas of land with bigger military of course. This point I am trying to stress, if it is not so clear, is that our perceptions and interpretations of good and evil have been accumulated over time to bring us to the ultimate ruling of what exactly it is that is good and evil. They have been written in scriptures, spoken by those who were either a son of god, or were approached by god. They have come in numerous amounts of different forms and not a one of them is wrong in my eyes. Because the development of a betterment ensure of peoples well being and success with the one life they are given is indeed a progressive step towards a better tomorrow and that my friends is worth dedicating ones life towards. Yes the individual wants and needs to be successful to a certain degree to help others achieve a level of success, but when we focus our all on ourselves and not others it contributes only to self demoralization. Break it down, what makes the good actually good? What makes the bad actually bad or evil? When you put the human life, when we all have come to understand is priceless (with the right amount of education), we see just what makes good good and bad bad. It circles ALL around the human life. We cherish it!! We cherish our own lives don't we? Yes, some to different degrees than others, but we indeed cherish life. 

How have you contributed to good and evil lately?