Was Evil invented by mistake ?

[Diana]

To a certain extent I see the validity in your statements. Perhaps I can provide a flipside, or alternative viewpoint, and whether right or wrong, at least get you to see how that viewpoint might be validated. Is a person a bad gamer if they point out what they feel is wrong or unbalanced with a game's design, in hopes the developers might take heed and make the game a better experience for those that play it? There's a quote in the material that the creator prefers honest dialogue, even railing against it, that it might hear our honest and heartfelt opinions about existence from our perspective. I'd say that there's more hope of salvation for a person that sticks to their heartfelt principles in misguided rebellion against the perceived nature of existence, then for one who blindly accepts the apparent "authority" of that existence as automatically superior and superseding to their heartfelt beliefs and values.

I so agree.

Everything in balance can be good or bad, to an extent. There is a dark side to acceptance, and you can see it in our history in the holocaust in situations when tons of people were marched to their deaths at gunpoint by relatively few armed guards that could have been physically overpowered with much fewer casualties. If wanderers and those of an STO bent were 100% accepting and 0% controlling at all times, than they would be 100% impotent and never accomplish anything. "when push comes to shove, sometimes shove must push back". That's in the material too alongside all the flowery acceptance stuff.

One more thing. People who can't understand why someone could possibly think "existence is wrong to be what it is", are either full of s*** and haven't suffered anything intense enough to come to that conclusions/distortion, or they have and made it past the dark night of the soul and shadow integration and really come out the other side, in which case they would at least be able to understand and empathize, even if they did not share the same view. As very few people fall into the latter category, people making the type of statements that you make usually fall into the first. In that case, they are somewhat akin to people who judge others who are relatively well off materially, and say "your life is easy", when they have no fucking clue what hardships that person actually faces.

I'll give you the benefit of a doubt, and assume that you are of the latter group, that's actually been through some real stuff and transcended it. In that case, your perspective is much valued. If you self-examine and find yourself belonging to the first group, I'd personally shut the hell up and not condescend people for disagreeing with the nature of existence until you actually learn how bad it can be.

Well said.

Although, I wouldn't want anyone to shut up—just to consider other viewpoints.