Well I'm not agnostic because my goal is not collect evidence to confirm an anthromorphic God. I couldn't tell you or anybody how the universe started. We all have many theories, one theory which has circled around the last few years is the universe always existed nothing created it. I've been doing some light research here and there and the misuse of words etymology and how socialization blurs our perception. For example the swastika in the west was a symbol of something nefarious, in India its represents something completely different and in Asia its good luck. There might be a force I can't out right deny that or prove that. Most criminals who plead insanity do it not because they are insane but because they want a lesser sentence
Viruses are what they are because of what knowledge we currently have on them, before people researchers told us animals can't count or were unintelligent, that simply isn't true anymore.
From the perspective of an bug like a centipede who feeds off of bugs and their babjws is it evil? No it's just its nature. I think psychopathy is a learned behavior. I guess all we can do is speculate
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Oh, we can do more than "speculate". Okay for starters I know of all that you wrote (got it). But you ARE an agnostic (since you talked about meaning/and I agree):
"Agnostic (noun): a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena; a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God." pshh, I knew that from your first post.
Okay to the creepers among us (I've had to do some studies/reading & actual on-site) psychopaths & sociopaths are both made & born that way. I think Alex's wife should talk on that (she'd know a lot more than me). But, I have seen (via glass) 100's of men who were in federal prison. Gives ya the CREEPS!
Man, I don't know where to go with how much to say here... I guess I can tell you this, for starters if you are "in tune" (and not everyone is) but you can feel it. At least I can. If you ever have been somewhere & that feeling comes over you & you look up & find someone staring at you. That's it. Frankly, I try NOT to be... (available) to that force. Cause you just, ugh, not sure how to say this. But once you see something, you can't unsee it. It takes you to a new "level". I don't want to know anymore.
That is why it confuses me why Alex wants to understand "evil". If he asks hard enough & wants to "know" it will show him the deepest, darkest parts of hell you can not unsee.
Sociopaths & psychopaths are put in the same camp. But, the difference (to me) is the sociopath is an idiot. He's a spree killer, he doesn't think it out, hence he's in prison. Now, the psychopath (and ya gotta love them) they are smart. I have one next door. They are usually very rich, successful soulless people. Once you get on their bad side they do not forget & they will pound you. They spend a great deal of time thinking exactly how they will get you & get away with it.
In their youth, they discovered this and they use it. Our saving grace is to recognize them. On our side is this
as they age I can spot one a mile away, they become sloppy. Because they THINK everyone is stupid but them. THAT is the KEY! Right there.
THAT is what you play into for them. Act stupid, tell them how SMART they are! How CLEVER! They'll love ya (as much as one of them can love/which they actually can't), but they will see you for a useful idiot. You want that. You don't want them thinking you are clever prey... they want to kill that. So you play up to their egos.
Evil is a force. It is also environmental. I mean someone could get hit on the head & become a loon of a type. But real evil, the force. Yeah, it's real. I promise you it is real. So, you would never just open yourself (or your front door) and say, "HEY, come on in!" To anything that passes by. You don't know when it will be passing by & take you up on your kind offer. *shiver.