5.18 Life is tragic  (Page 4/15)

Bad things exist

There are lots of bad things in the world which exist that make life worse, and there is no reason that they need to be there. There are bad sights, bad tastes, bad smells, bad feelings, bad attitudes, bad noises, bad emotions, bad situations, bad things, bad objects, bad toys. All those bad things don’t have to exist, but they do. That speaks for itself. It may seem like so far there is nothing insightful in this section, however bad things are really the source of all evil. If something is evil then it is bad and harmful. Those words contribute to sad feelings. There wouldn’t be a good if there wasn’t an evil however. If everything was good you wouldn’t know what the word good meant. Everything has to exist on a gradient from bad to good. Nothing is exactly the same. So if everything was good I guess one good thing would be good relative to something else, which is also good, but it would be bad relative to the good thing. But I mean a person is more good than a tree doesn’t make the tree bad. Only bad relative to the person. So if we eliminated all things that were actually bad by themselves and left only stuff that could be considered relatively bad, then the world would be good. So the expression, “there can’t be good without evil” is actually false. Bad things exist. This refutes my previous happy sad argument and proves that god really is evil, because you can be happy and have sad stuff, the sad stuff would be relative to the happy stuff, but not have any real sad stuff. And it’s the fact that real sad stuff exists which proves that god is evil.

No one is happy all the time

No one is happy all the time. In fact, when you realize that you’re not happy all the time, you get sad, worried, and stressed. If you’re not happy all the time then during the times you aren’t happy you’re experiencing some negative emotion. The key thing is that being happy the rest of the time doesn’t cancel out those periods of negative emotion, you’re still going to be sad for certain periods, during those periods you are indeed sad, it doesn’t “balance out”. During those periods there is nothing you can do about your sadness or discontent. Whenever you have to do something you don’t want to do or feel something you don’t want to feel, there is nothing you can do to avoid that reality. It’s there. You can’t say to yourself, “overall I’m happy because I’m happy most of the time”. That’s not true, overall you’re sad because the negatives in life overshadow all the positives. And you have to admit, there is always going to be a negative. Life is always going to be overshadowed and under the cover of evil. There is nothing any of us can do to eliminate that evil. It’s there. Whenever you’re sad or down, the statement, “it’s ok because it is going to get better” is wrong, because its not ok, if you’re suffering, then you’re suffering, and no amount of hope you have is going to change that. The mere fact that evil exists in the world is indicative that life sucks. It’s obvious that all evil is never going to be eliminated, and as long as a shred remains there is still going to be the probability that you are going to run into it, or think about it, or somehow it is going to invade your life. In fact, if there wasn’t evil, you wouldn’t even be able to comprehend what the word evil meant, because it wouldn’t make sense without evidence. So the mere fact that you can comprehend the word is evidence that it exists. Sadness and unhappiness are evils. Pain, fear, rage, remorse, negativity, sorrow, shock, terror, worry, loneliness, hate, horror, guilt, frustration, embarrassment, disappointment, discontentment, depression, boredom, bitterness, agitation, apathy, alarm all exist in large amounts in our world. In fact, those emotions probably take up at least a significant amount of each person’s life. And there is no way to justify their existence. They are there, they are going to stay, and there is nothing you can do about it. There is an evil which exists which will always remain.