Why Does Evil Exist?

is evil real if you just ask the question simply what would the answer be yes of course it's real it wasn't real we wouldn't even have a a topic to discuss so what what is the question really what's the question is evil real yeah let's go how do you make how do you make this intriguing i guess the reason we ask the question is firstly because we don't want it to be real secondly we have a problem because how can a good god create real evil i guess that's why the problem or the question the question is asked so we start off right at the beginning a text one here's the beginning of our problem the beginning of the problem is because the ramban says as if as if it even needs to be said that where it says in the title of um where it uses the name elokim what does that mean there's hashem and there's elokim alakin means the source of all strength because the the root of the word elohim is kale and that means strong so elokim is the power of all powers in other words there is nothing outside of god's control there's nothing outside of god's power so the statement that some people make that god can't control the evil he just sympathizes with those who suffer is not acceptable because how can he not be in control of how can there be a power that is not his power so that's what sets up the problem which leaves us with one of two options either god is not really god he's not the power of all powers or he's not so nice so we're either questioning his power or his goodness so there was this book which i think they quote later on a rabbi wrote this book saying that when bad things happen to good people it's not god's fault that's the way it is and god is very sympathetic so somebody wrote a a review on the book and said it's not really a big big accomplishment because he just replaced a cruel god with an impotent one so maybe you can't be angry at somebody for being impotent but it's certainly not god text two is it possible that there are some events that are not significant enough in god's eyes to bother with so you see you can actually make a very good argument people suffer all the time let's talk about jews jews suffer all the time and yet there are always jews so you see god is not really so concerned with the individual but he takes very good care of the collective he will not let the jewish people be killed individuals not so important god forbid so maybe that's the answer the answer is yes god is in control of big things but he doesn't particularly care about the little things but the passage says the eyes of god are everywhere observing the bad and the good there is nothing overlooked or overseeing overlooked rambam says in text three and the thirteen principles of faith the tenth principle is you can read it yourself the last line is the most important for your eyes are open to all the ways of mankind to give each one according to their ways and according to the fruit of their doings which means everything happens with judgment you get what you deserve you suffer only if you must if you deserve it you're rewarded according to your deeds so nothing is overlooked so that option is also not acceptable so here's the problem if god watches and sees everything and judges everything and is the power of all powers then what's going on what's going on is evil and the problem with that is text four david hamill says in tehillim hashem he is good to everyone his compassion is upon all the creatures he is just in all his ways and benevolent in all his deeds so where is the evil coming from text five and six also strengthened the question text five says according to the emi camilla he says god in fact created the world for the purpose of doing good of kindness because it is the nature of the good to do good so the whole purpose of creation is for goodness and yet here we have evil text six at the end of creation of the six days of creation god says behold it is exceedingly good what does it mean it's good god saw all that he had made and it was good the trees the grass wasn't mean it was good it was for the good it would all serve the purpose of goodness so where does the question why do bad things happen to good people where does this come from what causes us to ask that question aside aside from the pain so that's all subjective i don't like this i want justice i'm but but there's a philosophical reason there's a an objective cause for the question we want justice it's it's not just i want justice there has to be justice it's not my issue it's not personal this is essential god is the judge of the world where's the where's the justice so actually if i were an atheist i wouldn't be able to ask that question why do bad things happen to good people why not why not in fact i had this ongoing debate with a woman in minnesota years and years ago she considered herself an atheist actually she was a little flighty she wasn't she wasn't intelligent enough to even be an atheist but she loved playing the role of the atheist and tragically her brother who was the patriarch of the family passed away very young and she was furious and she kept saying why him he was so good so months after the the funeral i said to her you know you're giving atheism a bad name how can you ask such a question why him he was good what does it have to do with anything the doctor showed you exactly where his veins or his arteries were blocked he had a bad heart so what if he was a good man what what is that good man don't die i mean what is that only a believer can ask that question only if you believe in god who says i am the judge and i pay you according to your to your deeds and so if you're a good person you should deserve more life not less so he was a good guy so why did he die so first of all who are you asking why did he die were you asking me you're asking god if you believe in god secondly if you believe in god then then there's a system set up and this is not following the system if you don't believe in god there's no system what are you asking why do good guys die i don't know why the bad guys die what's the difference another thing why do good people suffer i got a better question why are bad people born that doesn't bother you i think that's a bigger question the good guys suffer and they become you know noble and we admire them bad guys are born what what's the excuse so that we can punish them for being bad so if you don't believe in god you have no questions so you can't say oh i want justice from whom who says there is justice it's an accident oops sorry so the question actually comes out of belief in god in fact the more you believe in god the greater the question so here's an interesting thing you can't say if if you want to handle the evil in the world strengthen your faith in god that doesn't help the more you strengthen your faith in god the bigger the problem becomes like for example i believe in god i don't believe in the gosh i don't think god is paying attention to every little detail okay you've solved your problems somewhat but if you believe in also the protest that every little detail is by divine plan well not a problem is much bigger so how does a munna help you with the question of evil so somebody who does believe will obviously be bothered more by the question rather than less it's also possible that a non-believer will be more bothered by the problem why would it be worse for the non-believer well first of all the believer at least has someone to complain to the people the survivors of the of the war of the holocaust who hate god with a passion at least they have somebody to hate so if the evil bothers him where does he vent his where does he vent his pain where does he he got nobody to complain to and we know when you're suffering the first thing you want is that right is someone to clutch to i mean not even that so unfortunately what happens if you're not a believer and evil things are happening you blame yourself i'm stupid i made a bad mistake i made a bad choice or you blame the people around you blame the government you blame the school you blame the neighbor because you got to vent it somewhere so for a non-believer the question is not bigger but the pain is bigger because you have no outlet so when a person comes to you and says i'm angry at god how could he do this i hate him i'm not going to be from that's a survival technique that helps them handle the pain so the first thing you do is you agree with them don't don't defend god he doesn't need your defense on the contrary in some way this is the strongest expression of emunah it's enviable almost how real god is to people who hate him we're supposed to love him you do you don't a little bit maybe forget about it but those who hate him he is so real so let's see what the what does toyota say on how to handle evil now we're starting off with a with a handicap here because we don't know what evil is we haven't defined it what is evil which evil are we talking about pain you hit your you hit your finger with a hammer that's the evil we're talking about okay a piano falls on your head big pain is that is that the evil we're talking about maybe why should that happen well if you know that someone did it to you then it turns into an evil thing right that's the other option the evil of people people's evil intentions evil people but you perceive god's evil intention right so people to people what about god to people mhm let's let's even take people out of the picture a lion eats a gazelle is that evil if you believe that god let that happen from the gazelle's point of view but to the lion it's just lunch so is that evil in other words it's not what human beings introduce that we can almost handle evil people do evil thing kill them put them in jail or whatever but the question is is nature itself evil is this an evilly designed world like for example the the the food chain everybody's eating everybody everything is eating everything tsunamis diseases plagues it seems like nature itself is evil and yet we don't call it that nobody says that a lion eating a gazelle is evil that's nature why because the lion has no evil intentions he's just hungry you know because we don't see it on a day-to-day basis we know there's a concept if we had to swatch minds eat gazelles it would be disturbing but also because there is no other thing unless it's your pet lion some people i like i don't know i don't know do i really want the schnitzel right now but that is a food chain but we have an option we can eat other stuff the lion really doesn't have an option his teeth don't work well with grass he's saying he'll die we do that with fetch we get fresh worms we actually do the actual the world by design is evil seems like right yeah who can live with that that's why we don't want to go there is too evil how about you a little bit if it was just a little bit evil someplace else that would be okay but it's also perfectly designed i feel like the evil is when it's out of that space of what the way it's designed the way we think it's designed so it's designed that the lion eats the gazelle it's designed that we eat chicken but when we go and eat if somebody goes i need a person that's not part of their design so that's evil you got poor taste in food you know okay so we haven't really defined which evil we're talking about and um uh we also haven't defined what does the word real mean is evil real what do you mean is it real does it happen of course it happens we're talking about it but is it real what does that mean real is is like the opposite of imaginary evil is not imaginary that's a ridiculous question so what does it mean is it real let's let's use just for the purpose of our discussions let's let's let's define real as justified is it justified in other words is there a necessary or justified reason for evil to exist that it exists that's a fact but some things exist and they're not justified in other words we'd be better off without it and some things exist because because it's necessary it's it's good it's it's proper so we don't call it evil and and and we want more of it but then there are those things that are real in the sense that yes it exists but should it is it really necessary so the question really is not is evil real the question is what justifies the real existence of evil now the question becomes even more religious in nature what justifies it who says there's justice why does everything need to be justified only if you believe not only in the existence of a creator but in a purpose if the creator is a is a purposeful creator then you can legitimately ask what purpose does he see in having evil exist so what we're really asking if we get right down to the seducia approach to the whole thing i would like to see what he sees why do we learn why do we ask questions because we're curious because it's the nature of the human mind to one to want to fit everything into a neat little package so that it all is consistent and logical to our brain why do we learn why do we ask why do we probe why do we why do we search from siddhisha perspective god is doing all this we would like to see what he sees we would like to enter his mind and look through his eyes because he's our god not because we need justification we're not putting god on trial that that that language is completely unacceptable which they have a text for it we're not judging god we're not more righteous than god that's that's so unacceptable that arrogance that that i know right from wrong what's with god that's childish what we want to do is we want to get into god's brain into god's mind so that we see what he sees so the first assumption is god created evil and and finds it necessary at least necessary if not virtuous in some way we would like to see what he sees not only to justify the evil but to get closer to him if i can see what he sees then then we're closer we're on the same page there's this beautiful explanation that the debbie gives before before yaakov passes away the torah tells us that all of a sudden without any provocation he he explains to yasaif why he buried his mother on the side of the road in in in scheme rather than bury her in the family because because he knew that yasif had some hard feelings so with his dying breath the last thing he said to jesus was there was there was a reason what was the reason 400 years or so from now the jews will be taken captive by the babylonians they'll be marched down that road in chains and to survive that gullus they're going to need to daven at her resting place so she is where her children are going to need her the nebus question was jesus had bad feelings against his father how could that be jasef questioned whether his father was was behaving properly he doubted his father's motivations particularly since his father was also his rebel his teacher doubting your redemption is like doubting so how could he have had bad feelings so the question is a very the question itself is is is a moral powerhouse but the answer is he didn't have bad feelings against his father on the contrary like we were saying before the more you believe the more you know for sure that everything that god does is for the good the bigger your question is but what is the question the question is knowing that this is good why don't i see it if i really believe it's all good then why doesn't it look good to me why doesn't it feel good to me why doesn't it taste good to me in other words why am i not in the same place headspace as what i'm seeing so because he trusted his father completely and knew that everything his father did was for the good and it was holy and it was right and then he looks at his mother lying there in the middle of nowhere i don't i don't see the good that i know is there so the hard feeling wasn't against his father the hard feeling was why am i not in the same place why am i not in the same madrega same level as my father so what did yaakov do he elevated yeysafe to the level where he could see what yaakov sees in other words he brought him closer he didn't justify himself yosef didn't want him to justify himself he was like jealous why don't i see what you see so that's what we're saying we know that everything that's happening is for the good but now we're jealous if it's all for the good why am i not included why am i left out why do i look like like like i'm the stranger who just came to town and i don't know what's going on here so what is the what does the gemara say the gemara in braches a person is obligated as a mitzvah to bless god for the bad just as one blesses god for the good where does it say that in the torah it says you should love god with all your heart with all your soul with all your might the word for might is another meaning of the word is whatever measure he meets out to you be exceedingly exceedingly grateful to him love him for every measure that he gives you so the word comes from the word meda whatever middah he gives you whether it's you should be grateful so the badichiver wrote a song called you in yiddish and he writes he sings everything is you when things are good it's you when things are not so good it's you and as long as it's you it's good in other words from you i'll take anything as long as it's coming from you so you want to love me i great you want to hate me great as long as it's you which basically means that whether god is loving you or hating you you're in a relationship it is so amazing that god could actually love you right makes no sense whatsoever his love is infinite you're finite what are you gonna do with all that love we're gonna put it like the comedian says you can't have everything you know why where you going to put it you have no storage room for everything if god loves you infinitely what are you going to do with that love you can't even handle it you don't have capacity for infinite so if he loves you it's so strange it's so amazing it's so unexpected and if he hates you same thing you're important enough to be hated since when some guy had this complex and he he was he was so upset with me he says every time i walk in you walk out that's how much you hate me i say i'm sorry to tell you but i don't hate you and i don't notice when you walk you know when you walk out you're not that important so if god does hate you wow you're that important so it's almost like love me or hate me just just don't ignore me so if god loves you you should thank him if he hates you you should thank him because it's so unexpected why would you hate me what am i to you what i ever do to you what are you hating just off off the record um there is a condition where people and then it's pretty common where you feel like everything in my life goes wrong everything i'm always everybody else gets by i some people have good luck and bad luck i have only bad luck nothing goes right in my life that that is that feeling or that that perception is actually pathological it's a it's an illness it doesn't have a name yet but but it is it's it's it's an unhealthy disturbance it's not an opinion it's not a an another perception of life no no there's something there's something broken in the system and there's actually a homeopathic remedy that takes it away so it must be an illness because you can't cure nature you can only cure a pathological disturbance so if a person feels like i get all the bad luck it's almost like god has singled me out and is out to get me he spends all his time thinking up ways of making me suffer that's a complex and it's an arrogant complex it doesn't humble you it makes you more arrogant it's me against god and god against me he's out to get me if he was out to get you you'd be gone a long time ago it's a disturbance anyway so let's take a look at what is the bracha you say when something bad happens you have to say baruch what does that mean meaning something bad just happened and what are you supposed to say thank you blessed is the true judge what does that have to do with anything how is that a response to the bad i don't know why you can't just leave it out just don't say anything so there was the incident where aaron's sons two of his sons died what does the torah say what was it what was aaron's reaction you don't have to respond because i don't have i i don't think it deserves a response at that moment it can't it's just so great that it's like that's only if the respond is like bad like like sad not if it's you lost his two sons are you kidding me yeah so one says why doesn't he make a lime it was so good it's like yes it's not good it's not bad it's just the truth of what is that's what god wanted wow okay so so that's that's what the that's what the barack or whatever dynamics you say that it's what now that it's justified that it's right that it's we don't understand it yeah the one above understands it we're not there yet okay so let's jump ahead we're on seven let's let's jump ahead to the solution or part of the solution when we say bad or evil like we were saying before what what is the definition or definition of evil unjustified we can handle anything if we know why if it's justified we can handle it up to a point of course you know pain can pain can drive you crazy but people doing evil always justify it like there is a justification they always think they're doing evil for the good see so you see if we think we have a reason we can we can handle everything like a woman going into labor she can handle the pain but if she wasn't pregnant and she was feeling that kind of pain she wouldn't handle it you can't you cannot handle that kind of pain unless you know what it is once you know what it is no matter how much it hurts can handle it first of all you know it's not going to last very long uh hopefully yeah it's only temporary you know what the result will be in fact towards the ninth month you're like come on where's the pain bring it on already so if we know what the purpose is it's not evil it just hurts right so what do we mean when we say bad or evil we mean so in in literal practical language it shouldn't have happened why is this happening it shouldn't happen that drives us crazy also for a good reason we are designed by our creator with a sense of purposefulness the the purposeless makes us crazy and even in tiny little things something is out of place it doesn't belong there it drives us crazy what do you care so there are some pens on your dining room table it doesn't belong there so we have a sense of propriety a sense of rightfulness or purposefulness somebody says something you say why did you say that why would you say that i don't know just said it no you can't just say it everything has its place everything has its purpose and that's why if something happens and we can't identify it or locate it in its it doesn't it doesn't fit anywhere makes us crazy not just we object it destroys us we will literally crack up from it because it it is so against our nature for things to be useless purposeless unjustified which is a compliment to the human being of course our greatest strength is also our weakness when we can't find the justification we fall apart we go to pieces so again definition why do bad things happen to good people what's a bad thing anything that shouldn't happen is bad like the debra once said the ibrister is a perfect homemaker a bala everything that belongs is there and anything that doesn't belong is not there that's called efficient homemaking so whatever doesn't belong is not there so when something happens and it doesn't belong we go crazy not only because it's an injustice now there doesn't have to be someone getting hurt anything that doesn't belong disturbs us why is it there even in science why do human beings have remnants of a tail why what do you care it doesn't belong it doesn't make sense it doesn't fit so bad means something that should not have happened and that's why if an old man passes away nobody cracks up right but if a child god forbid yeah well well that shouldn't happen why death is death what's the difference how old you are the difference is we can justify the death of an old person we we can't we can't find justification for so it shouldn't have happened now the question is this if you say it shouldn't have happened doesn't that come from your belief in god what do you mean it should it shouldn't so you believe in god and you're saying that something that happened shouldn't have happened that's a little contradictory if god is the power of all powers and nothing happens without him making it happen wait a minute shouldn't have happened if he did it then it should happen secondly how do we know what should or shouldn't happen how many times have we had the experience where something happened and we said oh no no no no this is bad ten minutes later oh i'm sorry changed my mind i guess it's really for the good so to judge what should or shouldn't happen we are completely unqualified we don't know what happened in the past we don't know what's going to happen 10 minutes from now what are you judging it should or shouldn't happen so what is the answer to the question why do bad things happen to good people the answer is bad things don't happen how could it you're saying this that happened should not have happened meaning god didn't cause it so who did the devil what is that the sutton did it that's that's that's idolatry okay okay we could blame ourselves but in in principle by definition no bad thing ever happened because it can't how can something that isn't supposed to happen happen so the holocaust is good see if if we understand the world did not exist god makes it exist so how can something happen that isn't meant to be how can something exist without having a purpose the only way that anything exists is because there's a purpose otherwise there's nothing so when we say god is the power of all powers we mean he is the only creator nothing happens without him so what does it mean it shouldn't have happened so what about the people who question god they're not saying this shouldn't have happened they're not doubting the purposefulness most people if you give them a purpose they're content oh that's why okay like the the woman in labor and the people in the hospital walking around listening to the screaming uh and and they're okay why are they okay oh she's in labor no she's in pain yeah there's labor but what about the pain well you know labor there's pain so that's it so so you're oh you're okay with the pain now why are you so okay with it because you know why so it still hurts so here's the point here's the really important point no matter how justified the pain is it hurts your heart is not bad it's not bad that's what it does because i'm i'm thinking when you're talking about the time of mashiach when the the wolf and the you know will be together right which suggests that before that the fact that the wolf that's the question you had at the beginning the fact that the lion eats the gazelle or the wolf it's the there is something bad you know there is something evil in it it's going to be changed that will be changed where there is no evil then though so they're real and it shouldn't be and death will be removed forever so is death bad yes it is if there is a time when i understand i understand but there are two issues there are two issues the first is pointless things that happen that have no purpose no justification no that we have to get rid of because it will destroy us if we really think that things happen without a purpose you you can't live could something happen now so the first thing that we have to do before mashiach comes is we have to get rid of this idea or this suspicion that something can happen for no reason because then then the only solution is suicide if you're living in a world where things can happen for no reason then get out once we figure out nothing happens without a reason and therefore nothing bad happens now the question is what is the purpose of death what is the purpose of pain what is the purpose of suffering of agony of grief huh what's the purpose of prayer when something bad is happening yes so a second question is a much more delicate question much more sensitive question somebody is in pain and it's their own fault they did stupid things and they got themselves sick and now they're in pain do you have any compassion for them see exactly well you know next time you'll be more careful next time so we have very little compassion you knew you knew you were going to get into trouble you did it anyway okay next time be more careful and we have no compassion and that's not right compassion should extend to people who are suffering for a good reason but they're still suffering where did all the compassion go well i understand why they're suffering so that's it so here's the problem after we justify the evil we can't be content we can't be content that's why you really want to know why there's a holocaust no i don't want to know why because no matter why it hurts you can't look into the survivor's eyes and say you know it was justified it's all for the good really how do cats all had to lose a child right exactly you can you can there's no way no of course you can't but if a person coming out of the holocaust out of the says i understand there's a purpose wouldn't that be great that's how frankl survived right so of course we're we're not in a position to preach to somebody in in a lot of pain and that's you know don't have to go to the holocaust yeah you go you go god forbid you go to a shiver call and you say it's all for the good you should they should throw you out of the house it's so inappropriate you didn't come there to dismiss the pain you came there to share the pain that's what that's what a shiva call is it doesn't make sense to say when someone's in pain it just doesn't it's unjust you're like like what are you doing hashem for something that like all right so one second first of all you don't come to somebody else and say bottle dynamis only for your own pain not for somebody else's but now it makes sense you see what are you saying about the tragedy you're saying god is a true judge and we don't understand what what does that mean what does it have to do with what you're saying is there's a purpose so what have you eliminated the randomness the purposelessness because that that we can't but that didn't take away the pain it's not meant to take away the pain it's meant to take away the insanity you're not going to go insane because it all has a purpose and what the purpose is i don't even need to know i just need to be sure that there's a purpose because otherwise i will crack up so i'm not cracking up because everything has a purpose now what do i do with this pain that's why people have to come share your pain take away some of the pain by by birth by taking it on but you don't dismiss the pain because it's all justified the pain is still real and hard hard to to carry hard to so we've got to do something about that so the word the the bracha baruch doesn't mean it's okay it's not okay but it's not pointless so don't crack up let's work on the pain let's handle the pain now completely off the topic i don't know how much time do we have huh 20 minutes so briefly and we really shouldn't treat the subject briefly but when historians look back at the 20th century they're going to find this fascinating thing from a distance objectively observing what happened in the 20th century to the jewish people they will discover that six million jews became martyrs died al-kitushashem their the survivors and their descendants couldn't handle it stopped believing in god stopped being thrown and then the grandchildren did shiva that's it that's the 20th century in other words in the 20th century half the jews became martyrs and the other half became bali chiva that's what happened it turns out that there's actually a prophecy that before mashiach comes how does that sadik become about you the souls of of people from the past who have achieved the level of sadik are still missing this one finishing touch this one crown which is called shiva so before mashiach comes all the souls that were at saddiquim in the past will be born again in order to become balichuva and what will cause them to become bolichuva the holocaust the martyrdom of six million jews will cause the rest of the jews to become bali children but in their soul they were already sadiq because in their past lives they've already achieved perfection but on top of perfection there are these two crowns the biggest sadiq in the world is missing two crowns one is called chuva and the other is called martyrdom i mean to say that he was perfect is like an understatement and yet he was born again as rabbi akiva primarily to die al kiddush hashem because maesha's death was a non-event nobody saw him die nobody knows where he's buried so he lived his life completely godly but his death was private rabbi akiva's death was massive it was public it was kid hashem so before mashiach comes which means the 20th century before mashiach comes those saddiquim who needed the additional crown of martyrdom became martyrs and those who needed the additional crown of chuva became biological i'm sorry it sounds a little bit like the muslim religion i don't want to die i didn't choose their murderer to know why god needs martyrs so now what so what happened what happened was people became martyrs or people became balichuva and those are beyond perfection in addition to perfection so if you're going to ask what exactly happened in the holocaust well take a look six million jews died al qaeda hashem the rest had to do children that's what happened so now the question is really is that necessary that is the purpose so it's not purposeless the question is still was it really necessary so after we know what the purpose is we still don't get it so what is our question about the holocaust people died for nothing of course not that's not even respectful to the people six million jews died for nothing that's what you think of life that one machine that comes along six million people have to die because he's crazy of course not so you see it's not enough to know the reason the only people who are comfortable with 6 million deaths are nazis thank god right so when we ask the question we're saying we want to see what he's seeing because we're not seeing the full picture we see what is happening until recently the question was not why was there a holocaust the question is what's a holocaust we can't even wrap our minds around it what was that so we were we were we were paralyzed by the question but even if we know what it was we still don't understand the necessity for it so we want to get into god's mind to know why is martyrdom so great so let's get to the answer before we run out of time is evil real of course it's real the the comparison to darkness which you're going to find here darkness is only the absence of light so it's not really dark that's not that's double talk but it's not really dark the absence of light is not real so what is this idea that evil is not really real it's just the absence of light what does that mean the absence of light is not real you turn off the light it's not really dark the the the comparison of evil to darkness only does one thing and it's only meant to do one thing to tell you that you can so easily get the light back doesn't mean it's not really dark it's really dark the question is how do you undo darkness the answer is it's not that hard put on the light because darkness is only the absence of light only it's the absence of light so what is the remedy the remedy is bring in more light don't fight the darkness because the only thing wrong with darkness which is real the darkness is real what's your problem with it let it be dark no you don't like darkness so how do i get rid of it don't fight it turn on the light so the the comparison of evil to darkness is only in terms of how to handle it not whether it is or isn't real now there is a darkness that can be fixed by turning on the light it's not true of all darkness in mitzrayim for example during the plague of darkness turning on the light didn't help because that darkness was not the absence of light that darkness was a creation called darkness so there are two things that we do with evil or darkness there's a certain evil you simply outlive it because it's the absence of light so if you do what you need to do if you follow the right path stay the course keep going for the light you'll get there what about the darkness it'll disappear it doesn't exist by itself it's only the absence of so if you keep bringing in light there will be no darkness but then there's another darkness or another evil that we keep talking about that we need to fix what are you fixing the absence of light you don't fix the absence of light so there's a darkness that you can dismiss and and you should because that's its remedy dismiss it and it will go away but then there's an evil or a darkness you can't dismiss it's not the absence of light it's the existence of darkness and the purpose for its existence is to be transformed into good but to transform something it has to be real so there is a substance substantive evil and we want it to become good because it has an energy that goodness doesn't have so it's not simply undoing what is the point god created a world with evil and we should get rid of the evil what was the point just to give us a job you mess up a kitchen just to have the cleaning lady fix clean it up because otherwise she comes there for nothing and you're embarrassed because the kitchen is clean so you mess it up before she gets there that's ridiculous the reason evil exists is because it has something powerful real and we want it on the side of good so why did god create evil why did god create good there is something in good and there is something in evil that serves divine purpose that serves a divine pleasure so before we ask why is there evil we need to ask why is there anything what are you picking on evil just because you don't like it why do people die why are people born oh that you take for granted yeah people get born now let's figure out why no everything has a purpose including evil what what does purpose mean purpose means if you use it correctly you can extract something positive and valuable from it that's true of evil evil has a power that we're we're jealous good people are jealous of evil people because because there's something about evil that goodness doesn't have like the insanity of it not to justify but somehow sometimes you feel like you know these terrorists who blow themselves up what is it aside from drugs they're all drugged but if it wasn't drugs that kind of devotion that kind of commitment that over-the-top commitment to something what if you think that's horrible what's horrible that these people are so evil and it's so sad but there's no envy or jealousy i mean so so separate separate the cause from the devotion of course their cause is wrong but look at how devoted they are to the wrong cause can you imagine if they suddenly did shiva with that passion they would be better than the biggest sadik because the biggest sadaq is not insanely good just very good so there's a certain power to evil and we notice it all the time even in children good kids are good kids bad kids they're geniuses and they use it in all the wrong places so what drives evil there's a certain energy there that goodness doesn't have that's why when you do chuva you're greater than the tsadik because you've taken that energy that sin has transformed yes if you could turn that into good you're more than good you're uber good so let me ask you a question there was hitler who is who is the equal and opposite to hitler he was he was infinitely evil so who's infinitely good it's hard to find an example but but in today's world in the 20th century who was hitler's opposite nobody all right do you see what i'm saying we haven't gotten over it because we don't have an equal and opposite it's still like mind-numbing how can you be that bad pleasure in the show if you transform it right so it sounds good transformation what do you need that level of evil to be transformed no you need that level of energy the evil you do you do away with you take that energy away from the evil that's like yaakov stealing the brachas from asaf those brothers oh no evil is not going to get that so even what evil already has steal it away get it transferred move it to the side of good that's called tikkun alam so just being good is not good enough so when we say god created the world out of goodness that's not good enough that's true yeah right so so now there's good and there's evil that's not good enough the evil exists because there's something there that needs to become holy and it's our job to face the evil engage the evil and and steal that goodness out of it yeah yeah more than we want he wants that energy back from the evil so many places like everything god is complaining why do you worship idols why do you run after them they're nothing you know what you're saying you hear what he's saying the conventional understanding god is saying why are you so stupid why are you being stupid where are you running after them they're useless i'll help you they can't help you right so god is complaining about our stupidity no no the energy that people had for idol worship god was so jealous look at the passion you have for that for the forever desert i want that passion so when elio said if you're going to worship baal worship baal if not worship god make a choice stop jumping around from both that's what it was you know pick one or the other that's what he was saying if you really believe in bowel so go oh he wasn't saying that he was saying where is your passion not if you believe in god so worship god no if you believe in god give him the passion you have for baal because it's a different passion for some reason there's a passion in sinning that you don't find in mitzvahs even in the biggest static so the only way to access that passion is yeah like like about cuba like do that mm-hmm should we all stay now and then yeah there's an idea no one thought of it's like should we sin uh too late i've already sinned and i didn't even know how good i was being this happened such purpose to that sin so it's like you know the the the the analogy that when we're connected to god with a rope and if you sin you sever the rope if you do chiva right and the same thing with you throw the ball against a wall when it hits the wall it get yeah it is energized so for some reason the rebound has a power that that the straight forward original doesn't have yeah but martyrdom takes it to a whole different level so there's so there's a song an old moroccan song where it says um it asks god please help me love my enemy to the degree that i hated him in other words i don't want to just stop hating him because then what was the point i want my love for him to be as intense as my hate because hate is more intense but if i can get just the way it is bad as you're stronger all right i have to say i hear all the time that we say the the joseph is like but it's greater than because there is access to that and it never makes sense to me like how that can be understood i mean again like that stronger energy but isn't it greater to to never touch that energy actually how can can okay you're you're you're born without so you you you have it but in what you're saying it seems that we should almost educate our kids to get out to see so that they have that pleasure why you don't think there's nothing good under the sun you don't recognize the evil you already have so let me let me explain this a very very good question it's a very good question why if you say i'm going to sin because i can always do chuva then you can't do children why because you already do it so there are many explanations like you can't you can't use one of the reasons is if you're sinning because you can do chiva then you're not really sinning the passion for the sin is not there no anybody who was not raised with yadishkai and finds yadishkai is a balchuva not really why because you didn't sin with passion he didn't know you were sinning that's right so that passion for sin wasn't there of all she was only if you were from not from from no the only time you have a real passion for sin is when you're from right the passion overcomes everything you believe and everything you're committed to but if you just didn't know where's the passion so really a froome kid who sees a non-kosher candy and says um that's true that's true you don't have to do the worst sins in the world and then regret it the rejection of evil is chuva so doing mitzvahs is a tsadik not doing a sin is about yoga now how tempting was that sin determines how how bigoted a balchuva you are the greater the passion and there's always a passion right a non-kosher candy it's appealing you say no you've salvaged that passion so the real balchuva is a person who sins with passion not a person who sins unintentionally so of course a person who sins unintentionally will correct his ways and become good fine but the reason for evil to exist has not yet been justified the real justification is the the incredible passion that sin has not the absence of light that's not passion that eat that darkness that's easy turn on the light but what about the passion for evil turn on the light not gonna work because the light doesn't have that degree of passion to it but where does passion for goodness come from i said clay is passion for goodness it's the ultimate of good they want to be connected yeah so the person who blows himself up is having place on that fish yeah but he wants to take others with him because they were more passionate right that's what brings them there yeah so the purpose of evil which is very real is that it has an energy like uh like the energy of a of um what is it called od oppositional defiant that is such an ame that is such a powerful energy that that rebellion energy that and that's why in a sense the zebu created a rebellion not let's all be nice in his time like insanely good yeah because he did do the insane he did do what's unexpected and he got his system to do it but but he was fighting stalin more than he was fighting hitler but yeah in order to win against passionate evil you have to have passionate good not just natural good huh where does that come from where does the passion come from from the evil the evil provokes you to that kind of and that's using the evil for good that's like you get into a big fight with your husband nasty nasty painful ugly and then you make up and it's better than before why is it better why not just back to normal you can't go back to normal once you felt that intense hatred normal you'll never be normal again you will either be better or you're going to be worse how do you get better than before the the intensity of the hatred intensifies the love an intensity that love does not naturally have so the person who loves god is jealous of the people who hate him because when you hate it is so much more passionate so what does what do normal people do like we're not haters how do you approach something like this we do it very very very often by the way whenever there's a tragedy what do we do more light right a young girl passes away we start a mixer every girl should light candles for her that's insane it's insanely good because it's a reaction to an insanely bad so we're doing it all the time you know if if only the rest of the world would do that so are you saying that the essential energy of evil is more powerful than the essential energy of good yes so aren't we all kind of raised to believe that the essential energy of good is better than the essential energy of people better like doesn't the world at large believe that yes it is better and that's why the energy that the evil has doesn't belong there it belongs here but it has more better i mean it's stronger aren't we raised to believe that the energy of good is stronger than the energy of fat like yes that's a good point conventionally light is stronger than darkness but not the darkness that is pure really evil less of a chance of winning because the power of that power is stronger the struggle between good and evil is in a sense unbalanced in the favor of evil because we live in a world that is more dark than light this is this is the lowest of all worlds so if you just look at good and bad right and wrong pleasure and pain uh there's more wrong there's more pain there's more evil that's the nature of this world this is not atsilus right the question is what power exists that can reverse that and turn this world into the best of all worlds which is right that's the whole purpose the lowest world will become the main dwelling place for god see there's your answer godliness is is the answer good and evil that's the battle where's where's the solution in other words good will not win over evil make sense godliness will turn the evil into good but if you just leave good and evil fighting they'll fight forever and the evil will basically win out so the lowest of all worlds means a world in which by its own on its own course it'll never be good that's what makes it the lowest of all worlds so the existence of the food chain animals eat animals and and and things destroy each other metal rusts away flowers die when the season ends that whole process which makes this the lowest of all worlds that has to be changed and what changes it really is not choosing the good because no matter how much good you choose the evil is more solution is to bring in something much greater than good and evil and that is godliness good is good it's not godly unless you bring god into the picture so good people are not the solution and that's why the non-jew who is good is not really solving any problem unless he's doing it for a godly purpose unless he brings god into his goodness he's not the righteous gentile he's just a nice guy what do you mean by bringing godliness in that you do good because it serves a godly purpose not because it's better than evil you know i have a choice i can either be good or bad and good is nicer that doesn't solve anything because god said so that's why not because he said so because of his purpose what does he need out of this right so it's not just doing what he wants doing what he needs you're serving him not just obeying there's a huge difference now of course you you serve him obediently obviously you're going to tell him what to want but but the obedience is not the accomplishment that's just a method a manner the accomplishment is you you created what he needed you to create you served him but when we read he did this and it was good it was good when do we when does he create because we say it's not the absence of good yeah actually so so let's go back to the gemara what was that the text um yes so you see what it says where do we learn that you should thank god for bad things that happen because it says comes from the word meda look what it says whatever measure he meets out to you be exceedingly exceedingly grateful to him what is this getting a little emotional here exceedingly exceedingly is that is that hyperbole very very so the gemara says of the madrish on friday god saw all that he had made and it was very good all the other days it says good god saw the light and it was good but on friday god saw everything he had made and it was very good so the measure says what what does very good mean good is good what's very good that just says good is the yetzer thief god saw that it was tave well that's the ace of three very good that's the eights of her not a strange statement because when you take the energy of the eight sahara and make it good it's not just good it's very good so what does it mean god created it was very good it was very good means there's that's the beginning of history not the conclusion so it's not like oh it's very good now we can retire and go back to sleep no now we have a world ready to be redeemed elevated fixed why because there's a eight sahara and that energy that eight's hadas we gotta get that we gotta get that and then the lowest world the one that has the eight sahara comes out on top because in the world of atsilus you don't have the passion for godliness that about shiva on earth has because in attila's there's no pushback so is evil real evil it seems like it's more real than good that's right exactly right exactly right and that's why we ask why is there evil we don't ask why is there good because it's just good there's nothing special we ask about evil because there's something special there and it doesn't belong there but crazy has an energy that right and insanity has more energy than sanity people who go crazy have more strength than a normal human being right maniacal energy well why don't we have that why do you have to be maniacal why do you have to be a maniac to have that kind of energy so what's our job to take a strength from evil and channel it yes so we're all going to go weird tonight where are we going like what you're saying you know he's not saying to me he's not saying to go to the bed saying take down no you're saying i'll tell you what crazy right yeah they were crazy i'll tell you what crazy this guy is doing sin crazy good means the lab is sitting by a fable in 19 in 1966 right everybody is still bleeding from the holocaust and that ebba says we're going to change the world come on that's insane yeah talk normal what are you saying like everybody else said we are going to rebuild ourselves we are going to get back to what we once had that's normal and they accomplished it their cities were destroyed their their people were killed out and now they're back and they have yeah but you know it was a natural process also even in the good days they kind of merged them yeah so now they have these huge centers with magnificent buildings and huge yeshivas with thousands of kids and back to normal that ebba said i don't want to go back to normal what's what's normal the world wasn't created to be normal if you want normal attilas it's normal there's god there's nothing besides god everything's good god wasn't content with that god created an abnormal world so what are you going to make of it normal in an abnormal world you have to have an abnormal amount of godliness so really without noticing we're all insane we're all insane what is not an insanity it's pure insanity you take a young inexperienced couple send them into a community that does not agree with them on anything that's insane and you think the couple is going to come out on top what are you thinking and guess what they come out on top it's right that's it you get a little kid to go on with him it's insane and you know how we know that it's insane because when the rubber started everybody said that's insane never said right what's your point that's insane what do you expect isn't that why we're here so do you have to really be cuckoo no we are we're pretty insane as it is it's really like you stop and think about it a person gets married and is loyal to the marriage that's insane no no no being monogamous being monogamous is insane it's an insane godliness what are you thinking that's not normal by all standards so maybe in the olden days you you couldn't you couldn't imagine [Music] not being loyal to your to your marriage today you can't imagine most of the people you know are not loyal to their marriage because to be loyal is insane so the question is this how normal can our insanity become people look at chabad you're insane we look at it and but well what are we doing what's not saying go on with us yeah what else are you going to do to us the insanity has become sane and the rabbit didn't like that so every time we got comfortable with a mitzvah he added a new one oh you're getting too comfortable you're becoming way too sane now go and reach out to non-jews whoa whoa that's insane uh-huh yep totally insane now bring mashiach i should bring yes but that's insane uh-huh yep and what motivates this the darkness the evil which you created god i'm just reading over here that evil is the absence of god i think i read that question who's the quoting he concludes by saying that no matter how we justify evil we should never get comfortable with it ends on kind of a moralistic we will never accept evil and we will challenge god and we will we don't challenge god that's that's that's senseless the argument the reason we challenge god is because he taught us to do that no that's that's kind of a strange philosophy of believing in god and believing in yourself equally my sense of justice does not allow me to let god get away with evil that's a god complex or something the thing that we never get comfortable with is not the evil and the injustice the pain the justified necessary pain we should never get comfortable with because god is not comfortable with it it's easy to get upset when you think there's an injustice even children complain that's not fair you don't have to have any intelligence or any goodness to complain about an injustice the real goodness is it is just now what can i do to take away your pain you don't stop being sympathetic once you know that there's a purpose why because god is that way he certainly has a purpose and he knows what he's doing and the pain bothers him that's why he's looking forward to mashiach not only to bring justice to end the justified pain why didn't aaron say that why didn't aaron make that statement there are many many different approaches to it very few people notice that our in silence meant he didn't say baruch which he's supposed to say so it's not just he didn't complain not he didn't rebel he didn't even say baruch so that's for one of two reasons either because there are some tragedies that you can't you can't say anything an old man passes away peacefully in his bed you say bar dying but when a tragedy is overwhelming it doesn't help to say bardain right so it's words do not work any words does god need to hear it i guess in the sense that the torah says that his silence was perfect it means that's what god wanted he didn't want to say anything had he said anything it would have made it worse so either the pain was too big for words or it wasn't necessary to say everything happens for a purpose aaron didn't need to say that there was never a question what was the question another explanation that is given is they they did it on purpose they died from their own ecstasy why you're blaming god the question for aaron was did they do right or did they make a mistake the question wasn't why they died they wanted to die the question is is that right so then god says no that's not right and don't ever do that again it was beautiful it was wonderful it's spiritual don't do that from now on it's forbidden so when they did it they were they were complete sardican because there hadn't been a commandment against it the first time that god said do not die from ecstasy was after they died so it's similar to the hakeda what was the akita god says send your son back to heaven he's completely righteous that was such good news so people say how come he he complained about saddam and and defended them and argued in their favor he didn't no argument to defend his son ever had that question there was nothing to defend god wasn't punishing yitzhak he was saying he's purely righteous and he belongs in heaven look that's what could be better than that the greatness of avraham was that he wasn't jealous why does he get to go to heaven what's wrong with me that was the first time that god made it known that going to heaven was not a good thing because before that everybody thought the sooner you can get to heaven the better like human sacrifice so god said no i don't need you in heaven i need you on earth so no more human sacrifices unless i dictated unless you can't serve unless you can't but if you can serve don't don't quit so that left open the possibility maybe dying from divine ecstasy is serving him so of course no human sacrifice but to die from the pleasure of godliness that sounds okay so by the sons of aaron god said no i don't want that either so don't do that again but when they did it there was no there was no prohibition they weren't violating anything what that means now what that means is you can die like i've like maisha died everybody's gonna die so you can die like a non-event or even your death can be serving him making a kiddish hashem so it's not they died for the kids hashem they died and even their death brought a kid to shechem so it's like saying if if they hadn't died from akidash hashem they would have lived more not necessarily they would have died without a kid huh everybody dies when their time comes but some deaths are embarrassing uh painful some deaths are a little more dignified a little more elegant a little more yeah so the question is not why did they die the question is how did they die because death is part of nature but it can happen in so many different ways so a mashallah banu died but his death didn't do anything for the world rabbi akiva died he was 120 by the way not like he he died before his time or something but his death is still being spoken of today it's one of the inspiring parts of the davinganim kipper so it's not like he he really was going to live a much longer life but he was killed al-qaeda hashem everyone's death is predetermined at birth the question is did your death accomplish something or did it just end your life so martyrdom means your death was a significant event otherwise you die and there's no no significant event that's those are the options but not like well if you don't dial kids hashem you'll live forever don't live forever so there are people whose lives are magnificent but their death was just a death there are people whose lives were magnificent and even their death was magnificent like shimshin said i'm about to die but can't i die accomplishing something can't my death also bring a blessing to the jews like take all these guys with me that so everybody actually prays that their death be [Music] productive significant inspire somebody you know have somebody say cotty for me something just gone that's it that's over and done with even death has a value like how many people become good because the parent passed away and they were never so sensitive and they were never so good but now that the parent passed away all of a sudden they want to do the right thing and would he prefer this would he have preferred that you never cared what your father wanted when he was alive so conclusion evil is real and it is the most exciting motivational force in the universe look at how every cause right every crusade pardon the expression every every rebellion was a reaction to evil of course it turned out to be evil too but that's besides the point for every rebellion got to have a rebellion to undo the evil of the rebellion but the rebellion was against an evil and people gave their lives for it rightfully or wrong but look at the motivation look at the power that this thing has in fact people are worried what's going to be when mashiach comes what's the passion gonna be everything will just be good sounds boring option serenity or passion a passionate serenity an intense calm yeah that's that's exactly what we're looking for an intense goodness not a boring goodness a passionate marriage not a functional marriage so the coming of mashiach is not okay we'll settle down and things will be okay forever that doesn't sound good it certainly doesn't justify all the pain of the past what all of that so that we can just go back to normal now it's got to be much better than normal because it's been much worse than normal the ultimate purpose is the insane pleasure of our relationship and what makes it insane the transformation of evil into good the world's evil everything just like absence makes the heart grow fonder why so you can say absence only reminds you of what you're missing because when when your husband is home you don't realize how much you need him how much but when he goes away you realize no that doesn't make you fonder that just makes you realize how fond you are but absence does more than that it makes the heart grow fonder because the absence has a power that presence doesn't have when in russia you were not allowed to put on twilight how much passion people put into their children the insane passion of communism to destroy judaism it was insane they were threatened by an old man who who spoke hebrew what is your threat you're the superpower of the world you've got america intimidated but you're afraid of an old guy because he used a hebrew word what is this insanity what do you care of the jews in your country speak hebrew read hebrew teach their kid olives drove them crazy they sent spies and they built prisons and they met tortured people what is your problem and that kind of insanity was the zebra's reaction to oh what are we going to put on filling wow we going to teach our kids olive bees underground but insanely and he won it was more insane it was crazier than crazy you see this clip about this guy the refuse nick what's what's his name the famous refuse nick from mendel mandelevich you see the clip the whole story of how he went on a hunger strike and anyway he beat the system really and he ends the whole story when he got out of jail because they couldn't break him they didn't know how to handle him because he was insane they put him on a plane to israel the communists put him on a plane to israel he said look what happened you told me i will never leave russia because he wanted to get out they said never you're never going to get out of here in the end they paid his ticket to israel they put him on the plane who won but one question i have a hardship creates that energy that we're looking for is torah what creates that energy for i mean why do we need hardship to generate that energy i don't know is there something else that we're given that can create that energy without the hardship no because if there was if there was another way to do it then why would god do it this way that's a question we have no answer for we understand the system now but god is infinite could have picked any system why this one that's what mashiach is going to have to explain so after all the explanation that there's a power to evil because it is rebellious because it is anti-god it's even stronger than goodness but okay fine who created that who says evil has to have more power i don't know but the fact is it does and the fact is we have to get that power back and once we get it back we'll ask god why he set it up this way and not some other way because no matter which way he set it up we would always ask why this way why not the other way so god actually created evil or is it the absence of god that creates evil as a question see there's a difference between he starts off with this there's a difference between absence and opposite let's take a look at that yeah right right not just the absence where is that right at the beginning somewhere right but it's not if you'd say that then and you're saying that god is not in the evil but he is an evil so you can't use that analogy because he created it and also he created it then he's in it right so the analogy is really referring to a lesser evil which is only the absence of light so there are two levels one is an evil that is only the absence of light and the other one is the creation of evil that is the opposite not the absence is there one that's the absence of light there is one that has no godliness in it because yeah that has no substance to it it's simply the absence and that's easy to fix bring in the light isn't there always justice not in the end doesn't everything have to be like i'm saying let's say evil between two people i'm saying not evil like not saying someone does something evil i always thought goodness prevails in the end yeah actually godliness prevails in the end not goodness but isn't there justice in the world always at the end like everything has to come around yeah yeah yes so is there someone take something from someone else is there a reward don't you get back with what belongs to you so the question is are you rewarded for your suffering does it all pay if everything works out in the end you don't you know if there's a god that you know that evil doesn't win if there's a god that does just need it right so godliness will succeed and the power of evil will be transformed or redeemed the question is for those who invested and went through the suffering is there some reward is there some huh what's the balance of that like you went to war yeah compensation you went to war and you won that's it okay now you can go home or is there some kind of medal some kind of compensation what balances the pain that you experienced so that's why the torah says that when mashiach comes we will thank god for the pain which means there will be some kind of benefit or compensation or reward it won't it won't it won't just be ignored so so what is it we need to see besides the victory see the victory is not yet enough the question is why why did there have to be this war i mean of course it's good we won great why was there a war why was this whole thing necessary that is the reward or the compensation so of course there'll be the pleasure of victory but there's got to be more than that there will be more than that yeah but that's not enough so what could possibly compensate absence makes the heart grow fonder that's the compensation not the victory victory is necessary victory is the project that's not compensation so it's almost like it's right so it's almost like your soldiers come home after winning the battle so that's it they come home you won the battle okay we can all go to sleep now the homecoming the hero worship now you're something so special if that doesn't happen like remember we're seeing this in the in the headlines soldiers come back from war and they need all sorts of therapy because they're they're they're traumatized that didn't happen after world war one or after world war ii nobody came back traumatized they came back heroes they didn't need any therapy or maybe they needed therapy because it went to their head and they thought they would they were greater than they were but nobody came back feeling horrible because they were greeted like heroes treated like heroes not just victors not enough to be victorious so when mashiach comes it would be we won of course we won you had to win what else what will this do to our relationship with god that we are waiting to see you know somebody says what what happens a woman is trying to get married year after year and that's not happening and it's painful it's horrible it's that a brink of suicide and then they get married where does all that pain go you ask the ass of the color so so what about all the so what about all the pain you know what she says what pain it's like it's gone it disappears they never say wow those were painful years never heard of colors say that it's like everybody talks about the sugar crisis you're engaged crisis over there's no crisis it never happened there was never any pain that's the darkness that is the absence of light once you bring in the light what darkness what are you talking about it's not like minnesota we go through a miserable winter and we make all sorts of vows we'll never never that's it i'm getting out of here and then the summer comes like what the place is beautiful what winter it snows here i'm looking for that quote where it says that evil is not the absence it's the opposite where is that text 18. no it's a short statement from ramban i think come on there we go look what it says here darkness is not the opposite of light it is only the absence of light for i have never observed two opposite entities of which one is transformed to become the other perfectly so when i see a dark space become illuminated i know that darkness is not the opposite of light only its absence what is the opposite of love oh no um like carelessness like like don't even care at all indifference is that not just the absence of love indifference means i don't love so is that the opposite of love or just no love it's just the absence how about hate is hate the opposite of love it is so passionate that it can be transformed into love you only hate the ones you love right something like that the ops the opposite of love is self-love no what is the opposite of love what is the opposite of my loving you come on loving myself the real resistance to love is self-love why should i love you if i can love myself at the same time you can but to the degree that i love myself to that degree i don't love you self-obsession like what what what is the opposite of respect self-respect i'm important not you so disrespect is more the absence of respect the real opposite is me it's like who should i love not is there love is there love or is there not love that's just absence the opposite to loving you is loving me come on you hear this all the time you don't really love me well you don't really love me why should i give you love you're not giving me any love so the real the real obstruction the real resistance to loving you is hey what about me i should love you you love me first so what is the opposite of belief in god no belief that's why i am god you should have no other god what's another god you should worship me don't worship right so the opposite of munna in god is a muna in me you mean like i don't worship anything but if you don't love yourself you can't love others there's no such thing as don't love yourself there's no such possibility no self-respect means you're too busy with yourself no self-respect means i don't respect myself i need respect well yeah that's the problem that's the problem if i need respect i'm too busy to respect you again i'm busy with myself either because i respect myself more than you or i need respect more than you i got the problem not you but it's all always me is the is the resistance so what about somebody who worships nothing okay that's the absence of worship it's not another god it's no god the darkness that you've mentioned the darkness that has an existence that is not just the absence of is is the opposite is that negative that transformed into a positive becomes right so there is a darkness that would be the opposite of life yes yeah that's what i'm saying he's making an important distinction that there's a difference between something being absent or something being the opposite when it comes to evil there's both is evil godliness or is this it's both there is an evil that is simply senseless like sometimes your yate sahara is just pointless and then the only solution necessary is get busy you're lazy what's the solution go do something but then there is a creation of evil that makes this world the lowest of all worlds and that's real and that's worth redeeming or or fixing or ransoming back bring it back to godliness the energy the energy it has is godly obviously god god created it it doesn't exist by itself it exists because god created like everything else but the amount of energy god gave it is enviable so why did he give it more energy why did he give to that aspect of this world so much more strength is it the energy of the touhou so here's here's the point got god created the world out of what do we know god created the world out of huh right a passion now if god has a passion then there also has to be an equal opposite passion no but it's also something that can't be explained so it's got to be a little bit insane passion is always insane how are you you know i do a lot of talking a lot of zooming many classes many subjects but that's all formal stuff hopefully good stuff but formal we also have a wednesday night meeting that's more informal and kind of um hamish if you want to join us for that kind of an event um interactive time for questions and so on if you want to join us for this side of conversation click on the link below and join us every wednesday night at nine o'clock well maybe not every wednesday night but we try to make it every wednesday night at nine o'clock a more informal chat which can be more enjoyable at times than the 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